Sullivan & Brill, LLP is a New York City based litigation firm specializing in the representation of individuals injured in accidents. The firm was founded by Joseph Sullivan and Steven Brill based upon the principal that every individual deserves to have representation equal to that of corporations, insurance companies and governments. In every representation the firm undertakes, it is committed to leveling the playing field between common people and the power and wealth of the government, corporations and insurance companies.

After graduating Cum Laude from Temple University School of Law, Joseph Sullivan started his legal career defending insurance companies and corporations. He gained valuable trial experience.  In fact, we went up against and beat some to the top trial attorneys in New York City.  Click here for a published report of one of his high profile victories.  Nevertheless, he also saw first hand how individuals could be outgunned in such litigation. In 2001, he left his former partners and began focusing on representing individuals who where injured due to the wrongful acts of others. His experience representing insurance companies and corporations has given him a unique understanding of how the opposition thinks and enables him to maximize settlements and verdicts for the firm's injured clients. He has obtained numerous significant settlements for clients injured in automobile accidents, construction accidents, scaffolding accidents, fall down accidents, sexual assaults as well as those that have been injured due to medical malpractice, defective products, and violations of the liquor law.

In 2001, when Joseph Sullivan was refocusing his practice, Steven Brill had been defending clients accused of criminal offenses since graduating from Temple University School of Law in 1994. His commitment to defend an accused from the extraordinary power of the State and Federal government made him a natural ally. He had exceptional experience handling serious felony cases, including homicide, sex offenses, robbery, gun and weapon charges, drug charges, conspiracy, kidnapping, and white collar offenses, as well as misdemeanor cases involving DWI/DUI, prostitution, domestic violence, assault, and shoplifting. Since founding the firm, Steven Brill has continued to defend the accused in federal cases in all Federal District Courts of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Washington DC and Miami. Most of these cases have involved charges of international drug conspiracies, 924 cases, white collar crimes and securities fraud.

Steven Brill has also been involved in several notable cases, including People of the State of New York v. Judith Smilie a high-profile kidnapping case involving the biological and adoptive parents of a baby boy; People of the State of New York v. Martha Yates - a case where a mother was charged with recklessly endangering her foster children by allowing her son to keep a tiger and an alligator in her house; People of the State of New York v. Jane Doe involving an attorney who was accused of soliciting potential investors for an allegedly fraudulent foreign currency fund; United States of America v. Julio Vasquez a case involving an NYPD Detective who was charged with Federal drug conspiracy and corruption in the Eastern District of New York (EDNY); and United States of America v. Angelje Sherpa - where a Napalese National was wrongfully identified as a drug lord leading to a dismissal and the granting of political asylum.

Since its inception in 2001, the firm has grown from two attorneys to six attorneys and three support staff.  It remains true, however, to the principles on which it was founded - providing exceptional representation to accident victims and individual attention to its client's needs.