Christopher P. Sullivan
Experience
- In charge of the firm's commercial litigation and business practice in the Boston office.
- Practice focuses on the civil jury trials of complex litigation matters such as financial and securities cases as well as intellectual property matters.
- In 30 years of practice, through trials, motion practice or settlements resolved more than 300 lawsuits in a wide range of substantive areas of litigation.
Other Experience
- Before entering private practice, served the State of New York as a Special Assistant Attorney General. Work included serving as a trial attorney with the Office of the Special Prosecutor during its investigation and prosecution of official corruption within the criminal justice system of New York City.
- Has served on the faculty of the National Institute of Trial Advocacy.
Selected Results*
Represented a software innovator against a major anti-viral software manufacturer in a nine figure settlement of a breach of contract case.
Tried a patent case before a jury on behalf of a small European computer company against a large computer company resulting in a $50 million settlement on behalf of his clients, after two weeks of trial.
Represented a New York investment firm accused by investors of breach of contract and perpetrating a multi-million dollar fraud. Argued the appeal before the 11th Circuit which upheld the finding of the District Court which had dismissed the case finding in favor of the investment firm.
Defended a Fortune 200 company in Massachusetts and Connecticut Federal Courts by resolving wrongful claims of patent infringement for recording devices.
Pursued on behalf of plaintiff a patent infringement case simultaneously in Federal Courts in California and Tennessee on behalf of a medical device manufacturer resulting in a multi-million dollar settlement for his clients.
Memberships
- American Bar Association (Litigation Section, Trial Evidence Committee and Intellectual Property Litigation Committee)
- Federal Bar Association, Massachusetts Chapter (Member of the Executive Council)
- Boston Bar Association (Intellectual Property and Litigation Sections)
- Massachusetts Bar Association (Civil Litigation, Business Law Sections)
- New York State Bar Association (Commercial and Federal Court Section and Intellectual Property Section)
- Boston Patent Law Association
Bar Admissions
- Massachusetts
- New York
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals, First Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
- U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York
- U.S. District Court, Massachusetts
- U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York
- U.S. Supreme Court
Education
- Fordham University School of Law, J.D. (1975)
- College of the Holy Cross, B.A. (1971)
Selected Speeches
- Has lectured for Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, the Boston Bar Association and the Directors Roundtable.
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