<p>Bruce Grohsgal is the Helen S. Balick Professor in Business Bankruptcy Law.&nbsp; He joined the faculty in July 2014.</p>
<p>He previously practiced law for more than 30 years, most recently at the Wilmington, Delaware office of Pachulski Stang Ziehl &amp; Jones, LLP.&nbsp; He has represented debtors, creditors&rsquo; committees, and trustees in chapter 11 bankruptcy cases and litigation, including the debtors in Solyndra, Global Home Products/Anchor Hocking/Mirro/WearEver, Chi Chi&rsquo;s and Trans World Airlines, the creditors&rsquo; committees in Freedom Communications (Orange County Register) and Jevic Transportation, the medical benefits retirees&rsquo; committee in Allied Systems Holdings, Inc., and the chapter 11 trustee in Le-Nature&rsquo;s.</p>
<p>Professor Grohsgal is the Editor-in-Chief of the Norton Journal of Bankruptcy Law and Practice, and of the Norton Annual Survey of Bankruptcy Law, and is the Director of the Institute of Delaware Corporate and Business Law. He was a Senior Fellow at Americans for Financial Reform, Washington, D.C., from October 2012 to January 2013, while on Sabbatical from his former firm, and was the Chair of the Bankruptcy Section of the Delaware State Bar Association in 2008-2009. He has spoken on numerous bankruptcy topics, including &ldquo;first day&rdquo; hearings, the sale of a business and other assets in bankruptcy, unsecured creditors&rsquo; committees, executive compensation, derivatives, repos and financial instruments in bankruptcy, and the discharge of student loans by individuals in bankruptcy.</p>
<p>He received his B.A. from Brandeis University in 1977 and his J.D. from Columbia Law School in 1980, where he was a Stone Scholar.</p>
<p><strong>What do you learn when you study law in Delaware?</strong></p>
<p>The rules that govern us must be just, both in their inception and in their application to each person, and serve the best of our collective aspirations. Lawyers play a central role in the quest to ensure that these rights and goals are realized. Delaware has long recognized and acted on the belief that the best legal system is that which is being constantly improved, both substantively and procedurally, to achieve these ends.</p>