Attorney | Author | Cocktail Historian
“By day, he is the trademark and internet counsel for the United States Marine Corps, with an office in the Pentagon, and he is as suit-and-tie proper as that job title would indicate. In his spare time, he is a drinks historian more prone to wearing tuxedos and seersucker.”
- The New York Times, January 2019
About Philip J. Greene
Philip Greene is an attorney, writer and cocktail historian. He is Trademark and Internet Counsel for the U.S. Marine Corps (Pentagon), and in 2007 held the position of InternetNZ Senior Research Fellow in Cyberlaw in 2007, Victoria University School of Law, Wellington, New Zealand. In October of 2022, he was listed as the No. 4 trademark attorney in the U.S. by the trademark monitoring firm Huski.ai. He is also one of the founders of the Museum of the American Cocktail in New Orleans, and has presented at food and drink events worldwide, including the Smithsonian, the Washington Shakespeare Theatre, the Hemingway Society, the International F. Scott Fitzgerald Society, the Washington Ballet, the Morgan Museum and Library in NYC, and the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC, and other notable institutions. Philip is also on the Board of Directors of the National Food & Beverage Foundation, and the Museum of the American Cocktail's Founders Board, both based in New Orleans. He is also the Toastmaster and Honorary Bartender of the OSS Society in Washington, DC.
Phil is the author of three books, To Have and Have Another - A Hemingway Cocktail Companion, (Penguin Perigee, 2012, 2d Ed. 2015), The Manhattan: The Story of the First Modern Cocktail (2016, Sterling Epicure), and A Drinkable Feast: A Cocktail Companion to 1920s Paris (October 2018, Penguin Random House/Perigee). Phil is also a contributing author for the Oxford Companion to Spirits and Cocktails, edited by David Wondrich and to be published in 2019, and is a contributing columnist for The Daily Beast.
The Fighting 69th's Regimental Cocktail, OSS Society, October 2018.
“How many speakers can boast of presenting to the current and former Directors of the CIA, several former Secretaries of State and Defense, and most of the senior intelligence and special operations community, and doing it with a Martini and a story? I only know of one and his name is Philip Greene. Phil is one of the Founders of The Museum of the American Cocktail. He has authored three volumes of cocktail history, recipes, and stories. His sessions on cocktails and cocktail history are highly entertaining and authoritative; many were originally presented at the Smithsonian in Washington DC, and are now part of the Smithsonian’s historical archive.”
— Dale DeGroff, Bartender, Author and the Founding President of The Museum of the American Cocktail