Agile legal expertise for a dynamic world

Navigate the future with confidence.

Somermeyer Sullivan is a boutique, full-service law firm that specializes in helping clients navigate complex business issues. After years at big firms, we traded in rigid and traditional for nimble and modern because we knew there had to be a better way of working with clients. SomSull’s holistic approach provides the most relevant, strategic, and creative legal guidance, fine-tuned to the nuanced needs of all organizations, regardless of size, stage, or industry.

The expertise you need, the service you want.

With decades of experience across many industries, SomSull has a global perspective on business issues today. This is why many of our clients treat us as their outside “general counsel.” Our experienced team is also backed by a vast network of specialists, ensuring you get the best counsel, no matter the topic. This model allows us to provide you the highest service at the highest value.

  • SomSull strategically partners with innovative businesses to help move them forward through creative and sound legal solutions. Our attorneys work collaboratively to understand clients’ goals, assess risk appetite, and provide thoughtful solutions quickly and efficiently without unnecessary overhead.

  • SomSull advises clients on their most challenging issues relating to state, federal, and local employment laws. Our attorneys are experienced in employment litigation before state and federal courts and administrative agencies. We conduct sensitive and complex internal corporate and workplace investigations.

  • SomSull attorneys are experienced and respected trial lawyers who shape case strategy around our clients' goals. We believe in partnering with clients through a communicative, clear-eyed, and strategic approach to resolving disputes. Our team has represented clients in multimillion-dollar disputes in federal and state courts around the country, as well as before administrative agencies and in arbitrations.

    Our litigators represent public interest and for-profit institutions in actions involving intellectual property, education law, employment, non-compete agreements, commercial contracts, joint ventures, shareholder rights, and landlord/tenant law.  We have the experience and resources to prosecute or defend your case from the pleading stage, through trial, and on appeal.

  • SomSull provides comprehensive intellectual property services to protect the ideas that make our clients’ businesses unique. Our approach is holistic: we represent clients throughout the IP lifecycle, from initial strategy and procurement to licensing and litigation when needed.

  • Sean Somermeyer

    PARTNER

    Sean is a nationally recognized lawyer, litigator, and strategic client advocate. Sean’s work has resulted in precedential decisions from appellate and trial courts that protect the important and varied missions of the institutions, businesses, and non-profits he works with.

  • Tim Sullivan

    PARTNER

    Tim creates customized legal solutions for innovative commercial and nonprofit enterprises and individuals, drawing from his extensive background as a trial lawyer, strategic  advisor, and intellectual property specialist.

  • Nina Harris

    DIRECTOR

    With over a decade of litigation experience with Am-Law 100 Firms, Nina brings extensive knowledge and efficient, thorough service to a wide range of matters, including high-stakes litigation and investigations.

We want to hear from you.

If you would like to learn more about our services or discuss an important legal issue you are facing, please contact us. You can also email us at hello@somsull.com.