Samuel B. Fineman concentrates his practice in the areas of estate planning, trusts, estate administration and estate litigation along with commercial, business, right-to-publicity, defamation and internet law. He is particularly interested in the convergence of digital assets, social media and estate planning.

Sam graduated from Cornell University with a degree in English. He obtained his J.D. at Widener Law School, and an LL.M. in Taxation and certificate in estate planning from Temple University Law School. At Cornell, Sam was a columnist for the Cornell Daily Sun where he claimed fewer than a “billion” readers; however, one of his fans was Carl Sagan.

He is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Middle District of Pennsylvania, the U.S. District Court for New Jersey, and the Third Circuit Court of Appeals.

Sam regularly lectures on estate matters for the Pennsylvania Bar Institute. He has represented well-known broadcasters, celebrities and social media personalities in the arenas of defamation, copyright and right-to-publicity. Sam is known for a precedent-setting case allowing state right-to-publicity claims to proceed against internet providers in the Third Circuit as a recognized carve-out per the Communications Decency Act. His cases have been featured in Law.com, Newsweek, The New York Post, and Philadelphia Magazine.

An amateur humorist and active member of MENSA, Sam edits and contributes to Proteus, the newsletter for Delaware Valley Mensa. Sam and his wife, Lynn Cohen, also an attorney, live in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. Sam and Lynn enjoy traveling, exploring, and hiking with their dogs, Kodi and Zoe, a husky and barky pomsky, respectively.