Robert J. Berg graduated from Amherst College cum laude with a B.A. degree in 1979, majoring in Economics and Psychology. Mr. Berg received a J.D. degree in1983 from the University of Chicago Law School, and also received an M.B.A. degree from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business in 1983.

Mr. Berg began his career as an attorney in 1983 at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, where he specialized in antitrust litigation, and continued his career at LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae where he was a litigator. Mr. Berg then joined Wolf Popper LLP, and Lite DePalma Greenberg & Rivas, where he concentrated his practice on representing plaintiffs in securities and consumer fraud class actions. In 1998, Mr. Berg joined Bernstein Liebhard & Lifshitz, LLP where he concentrates his practice in complex class action litigation involving shareholders' rights, securities fraud, consumer fraud, false advertising, and antitrust issues. Mr. Berg presently is one of the liaison counsels in In re Initial Public Offerings Securities Litigation and he is lead counsel for plaintiffs in In re Abercrombie & Fitch Securities Litigation. Mr. Berg was co-lead counsel for plaintiffs in In re Deutsche Telekom AG Securities Litigation which was settled for $120 million in 2005. He was one of the lead attorneys representing plaintiffs in In re Bankers Trust Securities Litigation, which was settled for $58 million in May 2002, a few weeks before trial.

Prior to joining the firm Mr. Berg was the chief plaintiffs' attorney in Princeton Economics Group, Inc. v. AT&T Corp, a national consumer fraud class action against AT&T for false advertising, which was one of the largest consumer fraud cases ever settled in the New Jersey state court system (a settlement valued by the Court at over $90 million). Mr. Berg and the firm have also achieved other large settlements in national consumer fraud class actions, such as Tuchman v. Volvo cars of North America, Inc. (more than $30 million) and Barton v. Saab cars of North America, Inc. ($4.25 million). Mr. Berg is admitted to the Bars of the States of New York and New Jersey, the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern District Courts of New York and the District of New Jersey, and the Courts of Appeals for the Second, Third, and D.C. Circuits.

Mr. Berg has been a member of the Trade Regulation Committee and the Consumer Affairs Committee of the New York County Lawyers Association, and has been an arbitrator for the Civil Court of the City of New York.

Mr. Berg has been a faculty member at various legal conferences, and recently was a panelist at the 17th Annual Litigation and Resolution of Complex Class Actions Conference sponsored by West Legalworks.