About the Instructor — Fineran CE

About the Instructor

Everett R.
Fineran, Esq.

Louisiana Attorney · Licensed Real Estate Broker · Assistant General Counsel, POOLCORP (NASDAQ: POOL) · CDEI Certified

400+
Commercial leases under management
18+
Years as a licensed Louisiana attorney
7
Years teaching law at Loyola New Orleans

Biography

The most credentialed commercial
leasing instructor in Louisiana CE.

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.

Every course in this catalog is written by someone who has actually negotiated these deals — at scale, with real money on the line. That is not a common credential in continuing education.

— Everett R. Fineran, Esq.

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.

Speaking & Publications

Speaking Engagements

  • National Business Institute — Commercial Real Estate Transactions
  • New Orleans CityBusiness — Future of Commercial Real Estate (2020)
  • New Orleans Entrepreneur Week — Real Estate Track
  • Swiss Re — Regulatory Risk and Litigation Strategy
  • Kaplan Bar Review — Louisiana Civil Procedure (2016–2018)
  • Loyola University New Orleans — Adjunct Faculty (2011–2018)

Publications & Academic

  • Equity Research (2010) — co-authored with Peter Ricchiuti
  • Editorial Board, Esquire Books, Inc. — Civil Procedure, Evidence, Criminal Law, Dispute Resolution
  • William L. Crowe Scholar — Top 10%, Loyola University New Orleans College of Law
  • Certificate in Civil Law and Common Law — Loyola University New Orleans College of Law
  • J.D. cum laude — Loyola University New Orleans
  • B.B.A. magna cum laude, Finance — Loyola University New Orleans

About Fineran CE

Built on one standard: if it's in the course, it matters.

Fineran CE is the continuing education division of Everett R. Fineran, LLC. It offers LREC-approved online CE courses for Louisiana real estate licensees, focused on commercial leasing and commercial real estate practice.

Every course is written by Fineran personally and reflects current practice — not textbook descriptions of how deals work in theory. The catalog covers the specific knowledge gap between what agents learn in pre-licensing and what commercial transactions actually require.

Our Standard

If something is in the course, it matters. If it doesn't belong in a client conversation, it doesn't belong in the course.

01
Attorney-authored Every course is written by a licensed Louisiana attorney with 18+ years of transactional practice. Legal nuance is addressed directly, not avoided.
02
Practitioner-taught The instructor actively manages a 400-location commercial leasing portfolio. The examples are real. The scenarios are drawn from current transactions.
03
Louisiana-specific Every course covers the rules that differ between residential and commercial practice under Louisiana law — the eight things agents need to know that pre-licensing doesn't teach.
04
CDEI certified delivery Courses are designed and delivered by a Certified Distance Education Instructor, meeting ARELLO standards for distance learning quality and compliance.
Created with 
# Fineran CE

> Louisiana real estate continuing education provider, founded and led by Everett R. Fineran, Esq. — a Louisiana attorney (Bar #31153, admitted 2007) and licensed real estate broker (#995692558) who serves as Assistant General Counsel of POOLCORP (NASDAQ: POOL), directing commercial leasing across more than 400 North American locations through its brokerage subsidiary Pool Development, LLC. Fineran CE's LREC-approved elective continuing education courses focus on commercial lease transactions for Louisiana real estate agents.

Fineran CE is the trade name of Everett R. Fineran, LLC. LREC Vendor #9145. All courses are approved by the Louisiana Real Estate Commission as elective continuing education credit hours and are designed for the residential agent expanding into commercial work, the newer commercial agent who wants a tighter command of the transaction, and the paralegal supporting commercial lease deals. Course delivery follows ARELLO distance-education standards including minimum time-on-content enforcement.

## Courses

- [Commercial Lease Transactions: What Agents Need to Know](https://fineran-ce.learnworlds.com/course/commercial-lease-1): 4-hour LREC elective. The complete commercial leasing foundation — commercial vs. residential transaction differences, the RFP and Letter of Intent process, base rent / NNN / CAM, total occupancy cost, permitted use, build-out rights, repairs and landlord obligations under Louisiana Civil Code, and Louisiana-specific rules in commercial leases.

## Explainers

- [What is CAM in commercial real estate?](https://fineran-ce.learnworlds.com/what-is-cam-in-commercial-real-estate): Plain-English explainer on common area maintenance charges — what they cover, how they are billed, how reconciliation works, and what tenants negotiate at lease signing.
- [Commercial real estate letter of intent](https://fineran-ce.learnworlds.com/commercial-real-estate-letter-of-intent): How a commercial LOI is structured, which provisions are typically binding versus non-binding, and how the LOI becomes the attorney's blueprint for the lease.

## About

- [About the Instructor — Everett R. Fineran, Esq.](https://fineran-ce.learnworlds.com/about-instructor): Full biography, credentials, court admissions, teaching history, publications.
- [About Fineran CE](https://fineran-ce.learnworlds.com/about): Provider information and standards.
- [FAQ](https://fineran-ce.learnworlds.com/faq): Continuing education, exam, certificate, access, billing, and instructor questions.
- [Pricing](https://fineran-ce.learnworlds.com/pricing): Course and bundle pricing.
- [Contact](https://fineran-ce.learnworlds.com/contact): Support contact information.
- [Resources & Insights blog](https://fineran-ce.learnworlds.com/blog): Articles on Louisiana commercial real estate and continuing education.

## Regulatory

- [Provider Policies](https://fineran-ce.learnworlds.com/provider-policies): LREC vendor compliance, refund policy, completion reporting, accessibility, and complaint procedures.
- LREC Vendor Number: 9145
- LREC: Louisiana Real Estate Commission (lrec.gov)
- ARELLO: Association of Real Estate License Law Officials — sets the distance-education certification standard for online CE delivery
- CDEI: Certified Distance Education Instructor (IDECC) — the instructor credential ARELLO requires