Lawrence B. Eisner

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Both law and business: My father was a lawyer who started a business in the year that I was born. Although he was fully a businessman and ran the business for thirty years, he never completely left law behind. He used the tools of legal analysis and inquiry in his business life, but also conducted many a Moot Court on family trips riding in the car. I grew up with the twin vines of law and business and learned in a very basic way to understand that the two vines are closely entangled and entwined; one vine needs to interact and support the other for a business to be successful. Jurisprudence is a fascinating field of study, but alone it has no value in carrying on business relations. It needs the other piece of business practicality to give it a this-world, down-to-earth effect. Business is the art of making things happen and law provides the enforceable system within which it takes place. Legal structure and business practicality must work together to successfully bring entrepreneurial plans and creative ideas into being. These ideas were sharpened through my experiences in government service, in business and then back into law, described below. After law school, attorney for a few years with the federal Commodity Futures Trading Commission in Washington, DC. The Commission was only a couple of years old at that point and still needed to address many Congressional mandates, such as regulating commodity pool operators. As part of the staff of the Commission, created and drafted many regulatory proposals after seeking industry input and assisted at Commission hearings where the public was able to comment on the proposed rules prior to their being adopted.

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