Brendan Sullivan
| Brendan Sullivan | |
|---|---|
| Born |
March 11, 1942 Providence, Rhode Island |
| Nationality | United States |
| Alma mater | Georgetown University (B.A., J.D.) |
| Occupation | Lawyer |
| Employer | Williams & Connolly |
Brendan V. Sullivan, Jr. (born March 11, 1942, Providence, Rhode Island) is a senior partner of the law firm Williams & Connolly. Sullivan is white-collar criminal defense attorney best known for his defense of U.S. Marine Lieutenant-Colonel Oliver North in the wake of the Iran-Contra scandal in the late 1980s. He is known for his combative style and several prosecutors have been fired, disbarred, or jailed for prosecutorial misconduct Sullivan had uncovered.
He has also represented former U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Henry Cisneros, Walter Forbes, former chairman of Cendant Corporation, and a number of states against Microsoft, and the lacrosse players in the Duke lacrosse case.
Sullivan is a graduate of Georgetown University, where he earned his B.A. in 1964 and J.D. in 1967. He served as a captain in the United States Army Transportation Corps from 1968 to 1969. He entered the national spotlight after he helped defend soldiers charged in the Presidio mutiny in San Francisco. Apparently his "courtroom tactics so annoyed his Army superiors that he was ordered to return to Vietnam for the last six months of his tour" but the U.S. Secretary of the Army personally blocked the deployment after being pressured by members of Congress to do so.
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