Arthur A. Sullivan

The first time I encountered Judge Sullivan was one day in the mid-1990s when he was on the bench in a courtroom at the Daley Center in Chicago. I was a paralegal sent by my office to observe a hearing. Two attorneys were standing before the judge arguing a motion. One of the attorneys made a procedural error, and seemed a bit flustered. Judge Sullivan asked her how long she had been practicing. She answered three years. He reassured her, with a twinkle in his eye, that "in that case," she got a pass under the "five year rule." Everyone in the courtroom chuckled. What a kind man.