[2] Berg received his Bachelor of Science degree, magna cum laude, from Georgetown University in 1981.

In 2010, he was detailed to be Acting First Assistant United States Attorney in the Middle District of Georgia.

[3][4] Berg taught courses at the U.S. Department of Justice's National Advocacy Center, in Columbia, South Carolina and the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia.

He taught a Computer Crime Seminar and also Trial Practice from 1994-2012 as an adjunct professor for the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law.

His special interest there was “a unit dedicated to fighting Internet crime in Michigan.” Berg offered that, “When I was a prosecutor, I always enjoyed the fraud cases, because it was a more complicated investigation and you had to prove the person had the intent to commit a crime.” He thereafter returned to the U.S. Attorney’s office for the Eastern District of Michigan.