Bernstein, Robert T.

Fred's practice focuses on representing plaintiffs and defendants in personal injury claims, including automobile and tractor-trailer accidents, construction accidents and some types of medical malpractice. He also handles cases involving fraud and consumer class actions, business disputes and matters related to wills and probate.

Some of Fred's recent cases include:

• Obtaining a significant workers compensation recovery for a client who lost a leg in an industrial accident;
• Favorable settlement of a class action for over 800 people who were wrongfully deprived of the right to have their prescriptions filled at the pharmacy of their choice;
• Negotiation of a favorable resolution for a client sued for allegedly causing dynamite blasting damage to structures near a construction site;
• The Odell v. Legal Bucks litigation.

Fred is an active and respected member of the local legal community. He is a member of the North Carolina Bar Association and the Greensboro Bar Association, serving on the Greensboro Association's Board of Directors from 2008-09. He currently works on the steering committee of the North Carolina Advocates for Justice Commercial Litigation section. Fred earned his law degree from Wake Forest University in 1981, and received a BA in Economics from Wake Forest in 1978.

In addition to his law practice, Fred is extensively involved in community work. A member of the Summit Rotary Club, he is a past member of the board of directors and past Rotarian of the Year. When he resided in the Town of Stokesdale, NC, he worked as a member of the Town Council and on the town's Planning Board. He has served on the Bryan Family YMCA board of management since 2005, and is a board member of the Bethany Community Charter Middle School Foundation in Rockingham County.

Away from the office, Fred is an avid outdoorsman. An "English Style” fox hunting enthusiast, he maintains horses and a pack of 40 foxhounds on his farm in Rockingham County, NC, and hunts foxes and coyotes in the northern Piedmont of North Carolina and southern Virginia. He also enjoys turkey, deer and elk hunting, hiking and camping, fly fishing, catfish grabbling, team roping and bird watching.

Fred and his wife, Elaine, have been married 28 years and have three children—Irene, Ben and Nathan.