About Richard

Richard A. Fineman, Esquire
THE LAW OFFICES OF Richard A. Fineman, LLC
Richard A. Fineman has nearly 30 years of extensive and diverse experience representing, counseling, and advising a diverse range of clients in a wide variety of transactional real estate and real estate finance matters. Rich has handled transactions of varying sizes and complexity across numerous industry sectors, including retail, office, industrial, port facilities, parking facilities, data centers, multi-family housing, student and military housing, condominiums, senior living facilities, P3 transactions, mixed-use developments, and numerous complex renewable energy project-financing transactions.
Before opening his own firm in late 2023 (where Rich continues to dedicate his practice to real estate and real estate financing transactions, and related matters), Rich practiced at several prominent Philadelphia-based law firms and served as in-house General Counsel for a regional property developer and manager.
Rich is a Fellow of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers (ACREL), serves as vice chair of the ABA RPTE Section's Property, Casualty and Non-Title Insurance Committee, and has received an AV® Preeminent Peer Review Rating* by Martindale-Hubble®. Rich also served as adjunct faculty at Temple University James E. Beasley School of Law for close to four years (where he taught classes on Commercial Leasing and Interviewing, Negotiating, and Counseling) and he frequently speaks at industry conferences and authors presentation materials for industry publications and continuing legal education programs, concentrating on insurance and risk management topics affecting real estate.
*AV®, AV Preeminent®, Martindale-Hubbell Distinguished℠ and Martindale-Hubbell Notable℠ are Certification Marks used under license in accordance with the Martindale-Hubbell® certification procedures, standards and policies.
Professional Experience
- •The Law Offices of Richard A. Fineman, LLC
Founder and Sole Member: October 2023 – Present - •Ballard Spahr LLP
Of Counsel: October 2021-August 2023 - •Blank Rome LLP
Of Counsel: January 2019-September 2021 - •Ballard Spahr LLP
Of Counsel: August 2017-January 2019 - •Trefoil Properties
SVP and General Counsel: January 2014-August 2017
- •Nachmias, Morris & Alt, P.C.
Attorney: March 2013 – December 2013 - •Ballard Spahr LLP
Partner: July 2006 – March 2013
Of Counsel: October 2003-July 2006 - •Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis
Partner: January 2002-October 2003
Associate: April 1996-December 2001 - •Astor Weiss Kaplan & Rosenblum
Associate: September 1994-April 1996