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    Sullivan, John J.
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Sullivan, John J.
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John Sullivan was a partner, and before that an associate, with Mayer Brown from 1993 to 2004, when he left the Firm to become the Deputy General Counsel of the Department of Defense. He is now the General Counsel of the Department of Commerce.

While at Mayer Brown, John handled numerous cases in the Supreme Court and in federal and state courts across the country. He is the co-author of the chapter on Supreme Court practice in Business and Commercial Litigation in Federal Courts (Robert L. Haig ed., West Group & ABA 1998). Before coming to the Firm John served as Counselor to Assistant Attorney General J. Michael Luttig in the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel, as Deputy General Counsel of the 1992 Bush-Quayle Campaign, and as General Counsel of the 1996 Gramm for President Campaign.

John is a graduate of Brown University and Columbia Law School, where he was Book Reviews Editor of the Columbia Law Review and a Stone Scholar. John clerked for Judge John Minor Wisdom of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and for Justice David H. Souter of the United States Supreme Court. He is now the General Counsel of the Department of Commerce.

 
 

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