Fred graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill with a BA in 1975 and a Masters Degree in 1977.  He attended Wake Forest Law School, where he graduated and passed the NC bar in 1982. Fred litigates catastrophic injury, wrongful death, construction litigation, insurance bad faith, contract litigation and condemnation law.  Fred is currently on the Litigation Committee of the North Carolina Bar Association.  He is a frequent lecturer at continuing legal education seminars on issues ranging from construction defects to insurance bad faith.  He is currently the vice-chairman of the Construction Defects Committee for the American Association of Justice.