Neil Fink
Attorney David DuMouchel delivered a eulogy.
In life, riches can often be measured in different ways beyond money. Achievement. Family. Friends.
On Tuesday afternoon, attorney Neil Fink's riches were on display at the Ira Kaufman Chapel in Southfield where judges, attorneys, family, friends, reporters and at least one ex-FBI agent packed the funeral home to hear eulogies that portrayed him as a brilliant lawyer, a great dad, a great friend and great mentor, who was after all, only human.
"Neil Fink wore his emotions on his sleeve," prominent attorney David DuMouchel, a long time friend who had cases with Fink, said in a eulogy. "Good and bad, positive and not always so positive, just like the rest of us. In ways, more so than most people, what you saw was what you got. Good and bad. And that's what drew people to Neil. He was human. He let people in, sometimes whether you wanted to be or not.
"But his humanness was compelling and endearing and sometimes maddening. And isn't that what we love...We'll trade that for phony and distant and on message, all the time."
Neil Fink
Fink of West Bloomfield, one of Detroit's top criminal defense attorneys for decades, died Sunday at 76 after battling Parkinson's disease for several years, and more recently, esophageal cancer. (Read obituary)
To watch the funeral click the video below.
