Admitted
1965, Louisiana; 1974, South Carolina, U.S. District Court, District of South Carolina, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana and U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth and Fifth Circuits
Law School
Tulane University, LL.B., 1965
Law School Graduation Year
1965
College
Erskine College, B.A., 1968
Memberships
South Carolina Bar (Executive Director, 1972-1974; Member, Board of Governors, 1975-1977; Secretary, 1976); Louisiana State Bar Association; American Law Institute (Elected Life Member, 1999); The Association of Trial Lawyers of America.
Biographical
Order of Wig and Robe; Order of the Coif (President, South Carolina Chapter, 1982-1984. Recipient, American Jurisprudence Awards in Sales, Insurance and Labor Law. Member, Tulane Law Review, 1964-1965. Author: State Law School Curriculum-The Future, 23 Journal of Legal Education 528, 1971; Civil Trial Manual, with Figg & Underwood, 1974, supp. 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979. Co-author with: Underwood, Civil Trial Manual II, 1981, Supplemented, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986; Finkel, South Carolina Torts, Palmetto Law Publisher Publishers, 1981. Finkel, South Carolina Torts II, South Carolina Trial Lawyers Association, 1986; Finkel, South Carolina Torts III, 1995. Assistant Professor of Law, 1968-1971, Associate Professor, 1971-1974, Professor of Law, 1974— and Assistant Dean, 1970-1975, University of South Carolina School of Law. Adjunct Professor of Law and Medicine, University of South Carolina Medical School, 1978-1985. Adjunct Professor of Pathology, Medical University of South Carolina, 1983-1995. Appointed Distinguished Professor of Law, 2001. Chair Professor: American College of Trial Lawyer; University of South Carolina School of Law, 1982—. Distinguished Professor Emeritus, University of South Carolina. Executive Director, South Carolina Bar Continuing Legal Education Program, 1970-1977. Member, South Carolina Trial Lawyers Board of Governors, 1982-1988. Member, Erskine College Board of Counselors, 1970-1975. Member, Fourth Circuit Advisory Committee on Rules and Procedures for the United States Court of Appeals.