Mr. Weinstein-Bacal has more than 45 years of legal and business experience with a particular focus on Construction and commercial law, bankruptcy, creditors’ rights, mediation, arbitration, and litigation in all forums.

He specializes in construction claims and represents many prominent participants in the industry, including developers, owners, contractors, subcontractors, architects, engineers, and suppliers. He also serves as a mediator and arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association (AAA) in Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, and elsewhere; as a mediator for the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico; and as a Comisionado by the Court of First Instance of Puerto Rico. He has worked on projects throughout the United States, as well as in Latin America, the Caribbean, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.

Since arriving in Puerto Rico in 1985 after practicing with law firms in the District of Columbia (1979-1982), a corporation in Virginia (C.A.C.I., 1982 & 1983), and a law firm in the United States Virgin Islands (Dudley, Dudley & Topper, 1984 & 1985), Mr. Weinstein-Bacal was Vice President and General Counsel of Redondo Construction Corporation (once Puerto Rico's largest general contractor) (1986-1990). In 1990, he was a founding partner of Indiano, Williams & Weinstein-Bacal, which he left in 2000 to found what ultimately became Weinstein-Bacal & Miller, P.S.C., an international law firm with offices in Puerto Rico and the Washington, D.C., area.

Before law school, he served on the staff of the United States House of Representatives Committee on Merchant Marine & Fisheries, was a teacher in various public and private schools in Connecticut, Florida, and Costa Rica, and held a wide variety of jobs, from mailman and carpenter to teacher and tutor.

Mr. Weinstein-Bacal is an educator who recently served for more than a decade as an Adjunct Professor of (Construction) Law at the University of Puerto Rico School of Law (2007); Lecturer (1986 - present) for, among others, the AAA, the National Business Institute, the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC), the Mechanical Contractors Association, Inter-American University School of Law, the Puerto Rico College of Engineers and Land Surveyors (CIAPR), and private industry.

He has also published extensively and is the Author of Chapter 53 (Puerto Rico) of Fifty State Construction Lien and Bond Law (2013-2024 Ed., Wolters Klewer; “Construction in Puerto Rico: Navigating the Legal Quagmire,” 71 U. Puerto Rico L. Rev. (Summer 2002) (recognized as the leading treatise on Construction Law in Puerto Rico); “The Ocean Dumping Dilemma,” 10 Law. Am. Vol. 3 (1979); “NOTE: The Darien Gap Case - Can Mere Words Interfere with the Sovereignty of a Foreign Nation?” 10 Law. Am. Vol. 2 (1978); “Just What Is Computer Law?” 3 Arlington Bar J. (1983); and co-author of numerous books for seminars including “Puerto Rico Construction Law” (NBI, 1992-); “Construction Claims and Job Profitability in Puerto Rico” (NBI, 1993-); “Advanced Construction Law in Puerto Rico" (NBI, 1994-); “Change Orders” (NBI, various years); “Fundamentals of Bankruptcy Law in Puerto Rico” (1993-1996); “Fundamentals of Bankruptcy in the Virgin Islands” (NBI, 1993); and numerous others.

He has been listed in “Who's Who in the World” since 1991, “Who's Who in America” since 1997, as well as in “Who's Who in American Law,” “Who’s Who in Industry and Finance,” and “Who’s Who in American Education,” and has been recognized as one of America’s Lawyers of Distinction (2019-2024), as seen in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal. Mr. Weinstein-Bacal is a member of the Federal Bar Association, the Inter-American Bar Association, and was for years a member of the Washington Foreign Law Society and the Caribbean Region Advisory Board of the AAA, which he chaired for several years. He was also a member of the San Juan Rotary Club (1986-2016) and is presently a member of the Board of Trustees of the Great Meadow Foundation in The Plains, Virginia, the Middleburg Tennis Club, the Middleburg Hunt, the Middleburg Forum, the American Legion, and many other civic and community organizations.

Mr. Weinstein-Bacal received his B.A. in Government & Foreign Affairs in 1970 and his M.Ed. in 1973 from the University of Virginia. He attended Stanford University School of Law and received his J.D., cum laude, from the University of Miami School of Law in 1979, where he was the Executive Editor and Managing Editor of the University of Miami Journal of International Law, “Lawyer of the Americas.” While at Miami, he was president of the International Law Society and received the Stojan A. Bayitch International Law Service Award, and was a regular member of the Dean's List. He is a member of Phi Alpha Delta.

A member of the District of Columbia (1979), Commonwealth of Virginia (1981), United States Virgin Islands (1985), and Puerto Rico (1988) bars, Mr. Weinstein-Bacal is admitted to practice before the United States Courts of Appeal for the District of Columbia, First, Third, Fourth, Sixth, and Federal Circuits and the United States District Courts for the Districts of Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia, the Eastern and Western Districts of Virginia, the United States Virgin Islands, the Eastern District of Wisconsin, as well as the United States Court of Federal Claims, the United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals, the United States Tax Court, the United States Customs Court, and the United States Court of International Trade.

Mr. Weinstein-Bacal achieved the rank of Captain in the United States Army Reserve. He was raised as an Army brat (the son of a member of the 1946 Class at West Point), was born in Stuttgart, Germany, has lived throughout the world, and speaks fluent English and Spanish, passable French, and some Mandarin Chinese. He is the father of three adult children. He lives in Upperville, Virginia, and Isla Verde, Puerto Rico.