Bob Finkelstein

bfinkelstein@cardonelaw.com

Mr. Finkelstein is an attorney with over twenty-one years legal experience. Most recently since joining the Cardone Law Firm in 1997, he has concentrated in personal injury matters involving auto accident claims, business law and commercial collections. Prior to that time, Mr. Finkelstein represented and defended the Orleans Parish Criminal Sheriff’s Office as house counsel from 1980 to 1983. Thereafter, from 1983 to 1986 he was appointed and served as an Assistant City Attorney assigned to the New Orleans Police Department as Police Legal Advisor to the Superintendent of Police. In 1986, Mr. Finkelstein attended the FBI’s National Law Institute for Police Legal Advisors held in Quantico, VA. In 1987, he became Deputy General Counsel to the Board of Commissioners of the Port of New Orleans (Dock Board) and was also appointed Police Legal Advisor to the Superintendent of the Harbor Police Department until 1995 when he entered private law practice on a full-time basis. Overall, Mr. Finkelstein has sixteen years legal defense experience representing these various public entities. Mr. Finkelstein is a member of the Louisiana State Bar and New Orleans Bar Associations. Mr. Finkelstein attained his BA degree in Political Science from LSUNO in 1975 and thereafter attained his JD degree from LSU Law Center in 1980. He also attended summer programs at Loyola Law School. Other related professional experience attained by Mr. Finkelstein included serving as Legislative Assistant to a Louisiana State Representative for House District # 99 in1976 and serving as the Central File Room/Records Supervisor in the Orleans Parish District Attorney’s Office from 1976 to 1977.

Mr. Finkelstein is admitted to the Louisiana Supreme Court, the United States Supreme Court, the Eleventh and Fifth United States Circuit Courts of Appeal, and the United States District Courts for the Eastern and Middle Districts of Louisiana.