Education:

J.D., State University of New York at Buffalo, 1976 (Moot Court Board; The order of Barristers; Trial Lawyers Award for Trial Technique)

B.A., State University of New York at Buffalo, 1970

Professional Associations:

Mr. Ferber was admitted to practice in the States of New York and Florida in 1977. He is a member of the New York State Bar Association, the Bar Association of Erie County, and the Florida Bar. He has been a member of the Erie County Bar Association Committee on Commercial and Bankruptcy Law since 1977 and served as Chairperson from 1998 until 2001.

Mr. Ferber has completed extensive training as a mediator through a program sponsored by the Eighth Judicial District and has become an advocate of mediation as a mechanism to obtain effective resolution of legal disputes. He is certified as a mediator by the Eighth Judicial District New York State Supreme Court.

Mr. Ferber belongs to the New York State Bar Association's Commercial and Federal Litigation Section; the Erie County Bar Association Committee on Commercial and Bankruptcy Law [former Chair and Lecturer]; the Commercial Law League (Creditor Rights and Bankruptcy Sections); and the American Bankruptcy Institute. Mr. Ferber was a contributing author of "Collections and the Enforcement of Money Judgments" a treatise published by the New York State Bar Association.

Mr. Ferber has been actively involved as a director of the West Side Rowing Club of Buffalo since 1975 (president) and the Holocaust Resource Center of Buffalo, Inc. (past president). He has also served as president of Congregation B'nai Shalom and remains active on its board of directors.