Scott Finelli

Scott Finelli, Family Law Attorney

Background

Scott Finelli moved with his parents from Oceanside, New York to Pasco County in 1980 and has lived there since, attending Calusa Elementary, Bayonet Point Middle and Ridgewood High School. He earned an A.A. at Pasco-Hernando Community College in 1993 and a B.A. in history at the University of South Florida in 1995, then spent nine years teaching: dropout prevention and American history and geography at Bayonet Point Middle from 1998, and American history, honors history and law studies at Mitchell High School from 2003.

In 2007 he entered Florida Coastal School of Law, where he was a teaching assistant in the legal writing department, a Dean’s List scholar, and an intern for the Honorable Daniel Wilensky of the Fourth Judicial Circuit. He passed the Florida Bar examination the July after graduation and was admitted in November 2010. In 2011, under a public interest grant from Florida Coastal, he joined Bay Area Legal Services, pursuing injunctions for victims of domestic violence; the Salvation Army’s domestic violence program named him its advocate of the year. He then practiced as an associate at a local firm before joining Kemp Law Group.

At Kemp Law Group

Scott is the firm’s family law attorney. He handles divorce, alimony, child custody and time-sharing, paternity cases, and prenuptial and postnuptial agreements for families in Pasco, Pinellas, Hernando and Hillsborough counties, and injunctions for protection where a family’s safety is at stake. His years in Pasco classrooms and his domestic violence work shape how he practices: plainly explained options, steady communication, and a focus on the children in every case.

Admissions

  • The Florida Bar, 2010 (Bar No. 86757)
  • Florida Coastal School of Law, J.D., 2010
  • University of South Florida, B.A., History; Pasco-Hernando Community College, A.A.