James H. Fierberg spent 40 years as a commercial litigator in Massachusetts and Florida, practicing at the highest levels. A graduate of Boston State College and Western New England University School of Law, he also served as a Florida Supreme Court certified civil mediator and law professor for more than a decade. Throughout his career, he focused on the critical task of mentoring new lawyers and is proud that so many have gone on to have successful careers. After teaching law for 10 years in Miami, he retired in 2015 and has continued to work as a consultant to lawyers from his home in the deep mountains of Western North Carolina and as a teacher at Western Carolina University and Southwestern Community College, as well as continuing to provide resources for new lawyers in need of mentoring.