Mr. G. Eric Brunstad

G. Eric Brunstad, Jr. is a partner at Dechert, LLP in Hartford, Conn., where he serves as chair of the firm’s appellate practice group. He has argued 10 cases in the U.S. Supreme Court, including matters involving bankruptcy, the First Amendment, fee-shifting, taxation, the Commerce Clause, statutory interpretation, jurisdiction and arbitration. In addition to the cases he has argued, Mr. Brunstad has worked on more than 40 other matters in the Supreme Court, including matters involving bankruptcy, federal licensing, civil rights, procedure, insurance, sovereign immunity, pensions, energy contracts and defamation. He also has argued and briefed numerous cases in most of the federal courts of appeals, including matters involving insurance, setoff, prepayment premiums, subrogation, and a variety of other commercial law and constitutional topics. In addition, he has argued two en banc bankruptcy matters in the Third and Eighth Circuits. In addition to his practice, Mr. Brunstad is a visiting lecturer in law at the Yale Law School and an adjunct professor of law at New York University School of Law, where he teaches courses on bankruptcy, argument and reason, federal jurisdiction, commercial transactions, secured transactions and international insolvency law. He has also taught at the Harvard Law School and Georgetown University Law Center. Mr. Brunstad is the 2019 recipient of the American Bar Association’s Business Law Section’s National Public Service Award for his pro bono work. He published a textbook entitled Secured Transactions, Teaching Materials and has been recognized in Leading Lawyers in Appellate Law, The Best Lawyers in America, Connecticut Super Lawyers, International Who’s Who of Insolvency & Restructuring Lawyers and Leading Lawyers in Bankruptcy Law. Mr. Brunstad received his B.A. magna cum laude from Connecticut College in 1983, his J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School in 1986, where he was an associate editor and contributing editor of the Michigan Law Review, and both his LL.M. in 2011 and his J.S.D. in 2014 from Yale Law School.