Last year, in my first Thanksgiving week post, I gave public thanks for my students. I could just as easily have done that again this year.  My students continue to impress and inspire me.  And that is certainly something to be grateful for–year in, and year out.

This year, however, I also want to acknowledge my thanks for all of the special colleagues I have in the academy (and yes, fellow BLPB editors, that includes you!) and the bar that make my job complete.  When I have needed assistance, support, or just a good laugh, it is my fellow law peeps–and especially my business law peeps–to whom I most often turn and on whom I almost always rely.

You, my law teacher and lawyer friends, have:

• read and edited my early syllabi, exams, and assignments, preventing me from making mistakes that new law professors often make;
• taught my Business Associations class when my mother was dying so I could be by her side;
• helped my son learn about e-discovery and various types of law practice so that he could launch his career;
• provided assistance to my Corporate Finance students when they needed specialized guidance or advice on their planning and drafting projects;
• reviewed innumerable drafts of law review articles and provided honest, insightful criticism and comments;
• supplied (whether knowingly or unknowingly) material that I can and do use to help educate my students about real-world legal problems that impact businesses and the people who engage with them;
• forgiven me when I have done stupid sh*t in conducting my professional activities that doesn't warrant mercy or amnesty;
• stayed up with me late at night to draft portions of self-study reports, legislation, and other important documents; 
• invited or elected me to serve in professional leadership positions, on academic panels, on professional association and bar committees, and in other capacities that have enabled me to both serve and continue to learn;
• collaborated with me on materials and presentations for important continuing legal education programs; 
• extended publication or submission deadlines to give me time and space to handle emergent personal or professional obligations that I determined were important; and
• built solid foundations in theory, policy, and doctrine from which I can build my teaching and scholarship.

I am sure I am forgetting important things, large and small, in this list.  But you get the picture and the point.  And I am sure that each of you reading this could come up with your own similar list of things about which you are thankful relative to our colleagues–truly remarkable, extraordinary people.

In any event, I am grateful for you all.  Have a blessed Thanksgiving.