About the College

The ACCFL was founded in 1991 by a group of lawyers active on the Commercial Financial Services Committee of the Business Law Section of the American Bar Association with the following objectives in mind:

• to promote high standards of professional and ethical responsibility in the practice of commercial finance law
• to make available to the Bar, and to the general public, authoritative educational materials in the field of commercial finance law
• to speak upon matters of interest and importance to commercial finance law
• to practice before legislative, administrative and regulatory bodies, and elsewhere
• to promote improvement of skills in the field of commercial finance law by recognizing lawyers for excellence in writing and excellence in program presentations

Of particular interest to the College is the recognition of those individuals who have not only attained a high degree of skill in the field of law, but who have helped others in the field by sharing their knowledge. In addition, the College encourages legislative reform to help identify additional methods of commercial finance law dispute resolution, as well as to simplify and improve access to the highest quality of materials on the issues important in the field of commercial finance law.