With more than 16 years of legal experience, Samuel Fineman is a multi-faceted attorney who is at home in the worlds of litigation, corporate law, estate planning and internet law, among others. Prior to becoming a litigator, Mr. Fineman served as the chief reporter for the Legal Intelligencer in Philadelphia, as well as for the Pennsylvania Law Weekly, the state’s preeminent legal publications. During his tenure with a nationally recognized and publicly traded leasing company, he made his mark through handling a wide array of corporate matters, overseeing a $25 million litigation portfolio and litigating priority matters in state and federal courts across the country.
Mr. Fineman’s corporate duties have included managing large-balance litigation and class action defense, researching issues arising under the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, preparing and reviewing SEC filings including annual report (10-K), 10-Q reports, 8-K reports, monitoring and effecting 401K plan compliance, general corporate compliance and best practices performing due diligence and legal research for new opportunities, overseeing legal facets of captive insurance program, handling internal employment issues and human resources generally, preparing and reviewing asset-backed securitization documents and warehouse term deal documentation, providing legal oversight and counsel to new business development committees (including de novo industrial bank charter), drafting and reviewing a multitude of sales agreements and corporate contracts (including service contracts and third-party vendor agreements) and advising Board of Directors on legal trends and strategic initiatives.
On the litigation side Mr. Fineman litigated hundreds of cases in the Superior Courts of New Jersey, Common Pleas Courts of Pennsylvania and Philadelphia Municipal Court. He has encountered wide-ranging issues including class actions, defamation, employment law, Internet law, tax law and trademark law in his career.
As an author, Mr. Fineman has contributed two chapters, Negotiable Instruments and Sellers’ Breach, of the Commercial Law and Practice Guide, LexisNexis’ prestigious commercial law bible. He co-authored with David R. Morgan, Esq., “Free Press v. Fair Trial in Pennsylvania,” in the Mass Communications Law in Pennsylvania series.
Mr. Fineman is actively involved in educating South Jersey’s future paralegals and attorneys as an adjunct instructor at Burlington County College, where he has taught a core ABA-required class, Introduction to Paralegal Studies as well as Business Law I and II and Entertainment Law.
Since 2003, Mr. Fineman has edited and periodically contributed to the practice-based, monthly newsletter entitled “Internet Law & Strategy.” The publication covers a wide array of topics impacting Internet law, including pop-up advertising, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the CAN-SPAM Act, spyware and a variety of other timely issues. He routinely interacts with board of editors who comprise the leading scholars in Internet law. His articles have been featured on Law.com.
Mr. Fineman is a life-long South Jersey resident. He graduated from Cornell University in 1991 with a B.A. in English and earned his law degree at Widener University School of Law in 1994. He holds a Master of Laws in Taxation from Temple University’s Beasley School of Law and a Certificate in Estate Planning.
