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BCLP partner appointed to U.S. Bankruptcy Court
Staff Report//December 29, 2022//
Brian Walsh, a partner of Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner, has been appointed as a judge in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court of the Eastern District of Missouri.
His 14–year term begins in January. He will preside over business and consumer bankruptcy cases springing from 49 counties under the Eastern District’s jurisdiction.
Walsh has been a partner at BCLP since 2006. He has been part of the firm’s restructuring, commercial litigation and appellate practices. He led the firm’s global restructuring and insolvency practice group for four years.
He is a past president and director of the Association of the Bar of the U.S. 8th Circuit Court of Appeals, which appointed him to the judicial position on Dec. 22.
Walsh earned his law degree from Harvard University in 1996.
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