Mr. Bernstein was born in Newark, New Jersey, on February 3, 1931. He graduated from the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce at the University of Pennsylvania, receiving a B.S. in Economics in 1952. He was a First Lieutenant, Intelligence Officer, in the United States Air Force from 1952 to 1954. He attended New York University Law School and graduated from the University of Tennessee College of Law in 1958.

Mr. Bernstein founded the law firm in 1959 and has practiced with the firm continuously since that date. He also served as an instructor at the University of Tennessee College of Law from 1962 through 1969; as special trial counsel for the City of Knoxville from 1966 through 1967; and as a delegate to the Tennessee Constitutional Convention in 1977.

Mr. Bernstein is a member of the Knoxville Bar Association and has served as president, secretary and treasurer. He is also a member of the Tennessee Bar Association, the American Bar Association and is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and the Tennessee Bar Foundation.

Mr. Bernstein practices in the fields of business litigation, general civil litigation, commercial law, real estate matters and domestic relations.