College of Law

Toledo Law Student Huckaby '17 Receives Bankruptcy Law Student Award

July 26, 2016

Third year Toledo Law student Nicholas Huckaby ’17 recently received the Distinguished Bankruptcy Law Student Award from the Midwest Regional Bankruptcy Seminar.  Law students from 14 law schools in Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky were eligible for this award; Mr. Huckaby was one of just four students selected to receive it.  The student winners were chosen based on the student’s letter of intent and a faculty member’s nomination.       

The two-day Midwest Regional Bankruptcy Seminar will take place in Cincinnati, Ohio, on August 18-19, 2016.  It will feature panels and presentations by professors, lawyers, and judges skilled in bankruptcy law.  As a result of this award, Mr. Huckaby will receive an expense-paid trip to the 2016 Seminar, which will allow him to network with leading bankruptcy practitioners. 

Mr. Huckaby’s faculty nomination was submitted by Kara Bruce, an associate professor at The University of Toledo College of Law.  “Nick is a fantastic student with a real aptitude for bankruptcy law,” said Professor Bruce.  “I am thrilled that he will have the opportunity to meet and learn from bankruptcy judges and practitioners at the upcoming seminar.”

Additionally, Mr. Huckaby was recently chosen by the editors of the American Bankruptcy Institute Journal to have an article published in its Student Gallery in the October 2016 issue.  He is one of six students selected to publish in the gallery this year.  He will also publish his law review note entitled Patient Care Ombudsman: Toward a Workable Standard for Appointing a Patient Care Ombudsman in a forthcoming issue of The University of Toledo Law Review.