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Michael Sullivan has represented journalists, newspapers, syndicated columnists, motion picture production companies, broadcasters, news sources and newsletter publishers in significant libel, privacy, entertainment, copyright and related cases for 25 years. Among other landmark cases, he represented columnist Jack Anderson in the successful defense of a libel suit brought by the self-described Liberty Lobby.

Mr. Sullivan is an accomplished trial lawyer and, among other trial victories, served as lead trial counsel for Miramax Film Corp. and acclaimed director John Sayles in their successful defense of a claim of copyright infringement, and as lead trial counsel for a Minneapolis, Minnesota television station, obtaining a defense verdict in Stokes v. WCCO-TV, a six-week jury trial of a defamation action by a woman who claimed she had been falsely accused of murdering her husband.

Mr. Sullivan has taught media law at the Georgetown University Law Center and has served as an adjunct professor at the University of Maryland College of Journalism, where he taught the Law of Mass Communication. He has authored articles on media law issues for the American Journalism Review and other publications and is the co-author of the annual survey of Maryland Privacy Law published by the Media Law Resource Center. Mr. Sullivan presently serves as the co-Chair of the Media Law Resource Center Trial Committee. He has also authored articles on insurance issues, including Developments in West Virginia Insurance Bad Faith Law – Where Do We Go from Here?, 98 W. Va. L. Rev. 267 (1995).

Mr. Sullivan is a graduate of The Ohio State University (B.S. 1977, summa cum laude) and the Georgetown University Law Center (J.D. 1980, magna cum laude), where he was a Case and Note Editor of the Georgetown Law Journal. He was one of the founding partners of Levine Sullivan Koch & Schulz, L.L.P. in 1997, and prior to that practiced as a partner at Ross, Dixon & Masback, L.L.P. in Washington, D.C. Mr. Sullivan is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia as well as in the United States Supreme Court, the United States Courts of Appeals for the Fourth, Fifth, Eighth, Ninth and District of Columbia Circuits, and the United States District Courts for the District of Columbia and for the District of Maryland.