Everett R.
Fineran, Esq.

Everett Fineran is a Louisiana attorney and licensed real estate broker with nearly two decades of experience in commercial real estate transactions, corporate litigation, and regulatory practice. He currently serves as Assistant General Counsel of POOLCORP, a publicly traded S&P 500 company on the NASDAQ (ticker: POOL), where he directs commercial leasing and development strategy across more than 400 North American locations through its brokerage subsidiary Pool Development, LLC.

Before joining POOLCORP, Fineran spent twelve years as a partner at Frilot LLC in New Orleans, one of Louisiana's leading litigation firms, where he led the transactional practice and represented clients in complex commercial transactions, commercial litigation, and regulatory matters. He began his career as an associate at Chaffe McCall, LLP, representing clients in securities litigation, insurance coverage disputes, and complex commercial matters across Louisiana's state and federal courts.

From 2011 to 2018, Fineran served as an adjunct professor at Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, teaching Louisiana Civil Procedure and training the next generation of Louisiana attorneys in litigation strategy and procedural framework. During the same period, he delivered bar examination instruction at Kaplan Bar Review. He is a member of the editorial board of Esquire Books, Inc., where he serves as editor of legal textbooks covering civil procedure, dispute resolution, evidence, and criminal law, and co-authored Equity Research (2010) with Peter Ricchiuti.

Fineran holds a Juris Doctor, cum laude, from Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, where he was named a William L. Crowe Scholar (top 10% of class) and earned a Certificate in Civil Law and Common Law. He holds a Bachelor of Business Administration, magna cum laude, in Finance from Loyola University New Orleans College of Business.

He is admitted to all Louisiana state and federal courts and to the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Third and Fifth Circuits. He holds Louisiana Bar #31153 and Real Estate Broker License #995692558. He is a Certified Distance Education Instructor (CDEI), the credential required by ARELLO for all instructors of certified distance education courses.