Kennedy, Douglas R

Scott C. Sullivan is a partner in the Firm's business law and commercial litigation practice groups.  He has represented financial institutions, public corporations, media companies,  healthcare providers, manufacturing companies, physician practice groups, governmental entities, small businesses, international entities, insurance companies and individuals.

Since joining WilliamsMcCarthy LLP in 1979, he has consulted and represented clients in matters involving complex federal and state litigation, contracts, buy-sell agreements, insurance coverage issues, partnership agreements, sales agreements, construction claims, business fraud, physician-hospital disputes, trade secrets, employee non-competition agreements, employment matters, creditor's rights, fiduciary duties of corporate officers, unfair competition, defamation claims,  Lanham Act, lender liability, contests for corporate control, business valuations, copyright and trademark claims, administrative tax disputes, contested estates, products liability, will contests, trade regulation, ERISA, insurance issues and shareholder rights.  Mr. Sullivan routinely counsels corporate,  institutional and business clients on legal issues affecting their business operations and appears regularly in federal and state courts.   

Mr. Sullivan is a court certified mediator in both state and federal courts and in 2003 was appointed as a federal mediator for the Western Division of the Northern District of Illinois.  He has participated in a wide variety of arbitrations and mediations of commercial, unfair competition, contract and business tort disputes. 

Mr. Sullivan is an honors graduate of the University of Notre Dame and its law school. Other academic honors include receipt of the Wall Street Journal Award for Excellence in Finance, Beta Gamma Sigma and being named a Notre Dame Scholar. He has been selected by his peers for inclusion in the Leading Lawyers Network, (2004 - 2012), a distinction awarded to only the top five percent of all attorneys in  Illinois. He has also been selected  as an Illinois Super Lawyer, (2005 - 2012) by Law & Politics in the area of commercial litigation and corporate law and has received an AV Peer Review Rating from Martindale-Hubbell®, its highest rating for ethics and legal ability.  In 2011 he was inducted as a Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America, a trial lawyer honorary society whose membership is limited to less than on-half of one percent of American lawyers.

He is a director of a publically traded bank holding company and is a member of the executive committee of the Notre Dame Law Association, the Alumni Board of the Notre Dame Law School.  Mr. Sullivan is also an active volunteer in his community having served on the Boards of Directors of the Natural Land Institute, Rockford Symphony Orchestra, Rockford Art Museum and the Smith Charitable Foundation.

He is  member of the trial bar of the Federal District Court, Northern and Central Districts of Illinois and is admitted to practice before the United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit and the United States Supreme Court.