Michael Fingerman is a fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers and a past president of the Pennsylvania Chapter of the AAML. He is a past chair of the Philadelphia Bar Family Law Section, a member of the Executive Committee of the Pennsylvania Bar Family Law Section, and has served as both an appointed and elected member of the Board of Governors of the Philadelphia Bar Association. He is the founder and former co-course planner of the biannual Philadelphia County Domestic Relations Practice course, created in 1983. He also practices and is certified as an arbitrator by the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, and as a mediator by the Academy of Family Mediators. Fingerman has served as a member of the Board of Editors of The Journal of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, and an adjunct professor in Family Law for the Temple University School of Law, Continuing Legal Education Department and the Paralegal Institute. He is a past president of the board of the Philadelphia Volunteers for the Indigent Program (VIP), the pro bono program of the Philadelphia Bar Association, and has been a recipient of numerous VIP Chancellor's Awards and the Justice William J. Brennan Award for his pro bono representation.