At a time when there was no formal training for law students in Dublin, Bermingham was one of a small number of senior judges who provided a rudimentary form of education for those students who would later go on to one of the English Inns of Court.
Nicholas Sutton, Baron of the Court of Exchequer (Ireland), who died young in 1478, thought highly enough of him to leave his family in Bermingham's care [REF].