In 2005, for example, Brickman described his three-year altercation with Charles Silver on the subject of asbestos litigation, in characteristically earthy sesquipedalian style, as a micturating match . As Boston University law professor Susan Koniak observed in her critique of Brickman s 1994 challenge to the American Bar Association s Ethics Committee, when Professor Brickman is not pleased, it is not unusual for " sound and fury to be conspicuous features of his prose.