Daniel Finkelstein, the senior partner of the firm, has over 50 years of real-estate litigation experience. Affectionately known as the "Dean of Landlord-Tenant Lawyers," he is co-author of the critically-acclaimed, two-volume West treatise entitled Landlord and Tenant Practice in New York, and a Co-Executive Editor of Landlord-Tenant Monthly, a monthly law journal published by Treiman Publications.

Currently, he is an Adjunct Professor of Law at New York Law School (NYLS) where he teaches Landlord and Tenant Law. Prior to joining NYLS, Mr. Finkelstein served as Adjunct Associate Professor of Real Estate at New York University, where he was awarded the University’s “Teachers' Excellence Award.”

In the early stages of his career, Mr. Finkelstein served as the Senior Real-Estate Manager for the Board of Estimate of the City of New York, and Assistant Chief Enforcement Attorney for the Temporary State Housing Rent Commission.

Mr. Finkelstein has proudly served on the Board of Directors of the New York County Lawyers' Association (NYCLA) and is a past chair of NYCLA's Civil Court Practice Section. He serves on various NYCLA committees, and has served on the Association of the Bar of the City of New York’s Judicial Committee, which reviews the qualifications of all judicial candidates. Mr. Finkelstein is the recipient of numerous honors, including awards from the New York State Bar Association, the American Bar Endowment, NYCLA, the Civil Court of the City of New York, and Brooklyn Law School. Mr. Finkelstein was also awarded certificates of merit for his work with the U.S. Selective Service System by Presidents Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford. Before joining Finkelstein Newman LLP, he was a founding member of one of New York City's largest landlord-tenant law firms, Finkelstein, Borah, Schwartz, Altschuler & Goldstein, P.C.