Robert K. Beste, Jr.
Partner
Wilmington
302.425.5089
rbeste@cohenseglias.com
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ROBERT K. BESTE, JR. has been a partner in the Wilmington office of Cohen Seglias Pallas Greenhall & Furman PC since March of 2004 and has been engaged in the general practice of law in Delaware since 1975. Throughout his career, Mr. Beste's primary emphasis has been civil litigation. He also has extensive experience in estate planning, real estate, landlord/tenant issues, family law, bankruptcy, debt collection, foreclosures, construction matters and environmental insurance claims and now represents 17 Delaware nursing homes.

In addition, Mr. Beste devotes substantial time to the practice of personal injury litigation. He has authored a 350-page, hard-bound treatise, published in 2003, entitled Automobile Injury and Insurance Claims: Delaware Law and Practice. The book is widely circulated throughout Delaware and is used by judges, attorneys, and insurance representatives as a reference guide. A seventh supplement to the book was printed in February 2010 and is published annually, and now itself exceeds 180 pages of up-to-date summaries of the most current Delaware law.

He is a member of the Delaware State Bar Association and the Delaware Trial Lawyers Association. He also serves as a member of the Committee on Professional Ethics (Co-Chairman 2005-2009) and is a member of the Professional Guidance Committee and the Alternate Dispute Resolution Section of the Delaware State Bar Association. Mr. Beste is a member of the Board of Professional Responsibility, a certified mediator and a former special visitation master in the Family Court of Delaware. He has recently been appointed to the Permanent Advisory Committee on Delaware Lawyers’ Rules of Professional Conduct.