User details
ID 1673028676 Email address 1090653
Status ResoluteOnly
First name George Last name Finkle
Full name Hon. George Finkle
Gender Male
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Contact information
Corporation Judicial Dispute Resolution, LLC
Address 1 1425 Fourth Avenue, Suite 300
City Seattle
ZIP Code 98101
State Washington
Phone (206)442-1681 Fax (206)223-0450
Cell public? Yes
Promote video conferencing? No
CC name   CC email  
Formal Qualifications & Memberships
Judge? Yes
ADR services 1,2,3,6,7,8,9
Education
  • Harvard Law School, J.D. 1973
  • National Judicial College, Graduate 1990
Memberships
  • Fellow, College of Commercial Arbitrators
  • Chief Civil Judge, King County Superior Court
  • Chair, Superior Court Mental Illness Committee
  • Volunteer Mediator, Seattle Police / Citizen disputes and King County Superior Court
  • Member, Washington State Board of Bar Examiners
  • Commissioner, Washington State Sentencing Guidelines Commission

Judge Finkle has been a frequent speaker at Continuing Legal Education seminars covering topics including effective arbitration, mediation, and trial practice. In October of 2010, Judge Finkle was a visiting Professor of Law at the Masaryk University Law Faculty in the Czech Republic.

Biography

Judge Finkle was appointed to the King County Superior Court in December 1989 and served until October 1999. Before taking the bench, Judge Finkle was a partner in Burns Schneiderman Finkle, Deputy Director of the Seattle-King County Public Defender, an associate at Preston Thorgrimson, and law clerk to the Hon. Jerome Farris.

Judge Finkle has successfully arbitrated and mediated hundreds of state and federal civil cases. Judge Finkle has served as Special Master in dozens of state and federal cases, has consulted in litigation, and has supervised elections. While a member of the Superior Court bench, Judge Finkle’s diverse trial docket included State v. American Tobacco (the multi-billion dollar lead case in the national tobacco litigation), as well as hundreds of other complex and straightforward civil cases.

ADR Practice & Case Experience
Additional languages 1
Practice started 0
Dispute areas 2,3,12,14,15,18,20,23,28,37,38,61,65,67,71,75,77,78,79,82,86
Calendar Settings
Private calendar purchased No
Calendar preference Disabled Calendar display type 5 day
Calendar last update time Never
Booking
Whole days Disabled Multiple mediations Disabled Ask Client to Select ADR Service? Disabled
Time zone Eastern
Requested Date Automatically Held/Booked? Disabled Auto hold type On Hold Ask if all attending counsel agreed on date? Disabled
Notes mandatory? Yes
Additional attendees No
GoogleMaps
Map enabled Yes Streetview enabled Yes
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Longitude 0
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