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Mr. Bernstein was a captain in the United States Army during World War II, serving in the Judge Advocate General’s Office. After the war, Mr. Bernstein opened his own practice and taught business law at the University of South Carolina. He later served as a West Columbia Municipal Court Judge for 20 years, while continuing to engage in the private practice of law. In 1994, Mr. Bernstein was joined by two of his children, Lowell E. Bernstein and Beth E. Bernstein, and formed what is now known as Bernstein and Bernstein, LLC.

During a career that spanned over 60 years, Mr. Bernstein argued and prevailed in numerous cases in the United States District Court and South Carolina Supreme Court. He helped create and shape new law and precedent during his career. Mr. Bernstein was considered by his contemporaries to be a “lawyer’s lawyer.” He had a brilliant legal mind and was exceptional in his devotion to the legal profession. While practicing law, he maintained an “AV” rating, Martindale-Hubbell.

Mr. Bernstein was admitted to practice before the South Carolina Bar, the United States Supreme Court, United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit, the United States District Court, and all the South Carolina State Courts. He was a member of the South Carolina Bar, Richland County Bar Association, American Bar Association, and South Carolina Trial Lawyers Association. He served as Municipal Judge for West Columbia from 1955-1975.

In 2015, he was remembered and inducted by the South Carolina Bar’s Memory Hold the Door, an Honor Roll of the legal profession.