One of the pleasures of attending the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges is seeing good lawyers and judges being recognized for their contributions to the profession. This year I attended three awards presentations.
The Commercial Law League of America presented the Lawrence P. King Award to Eric Brunstad, Jr. Mr. Brunstad is a skilled advocate who has argued ten cases to the Supreme Court. A consummate over-achiever, he has an LLM and a JSD from Yale Law School. A JSM is the equivalent of a Ph.D. in Law. He has taught at Yale Law School, NYU School of Law, Harvard Law School and the Georgetown University Law Center.
In his acceptance speech, he acknowledged his debt to Lawrence King and many prior winners of the King Award, including Sen. Elizabeth Warren. He said that he wanted to teach Secured Transactions at Yale and asked then-Prof. Warren what the best way to do that would be. She said that the answer was to teach Secured Transactions at Harvard, which she helped him to do. He said that it worked and that when he return to Yale, he got his own parking place and an assistant.
