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PETER R. SULLIVAN

Peter R. Sullivan is a founding member of Sullivan Gardner, PC. Mr. Sullivan’s practice focuses on the areas of construction and environmental regulations. Mr. Sullivan has over twenty-five years of experience representing companies before city agencies in the areas of procurement, solid waste, public administration, integrity review, land use, real estate, collective bargaining, and entertainment law. Prior to founding Sullivan Gardner, PC, Mr. Sullivan was in the Office of Counsel at the New York City Planning Commission and associated with the firm Davidoff, Malito & Hutcher LLP.

Education
:: University of Rhode Island (B.A. 1978)
:: Syracuse University (Juris Doctor, 1981)

Affiliations
:: Construction Trucking Association, Board Member
:: NYC Transfer Station Association, Former President
:: NYC Bar Association, Construction Law Committee
:: National Public Interest Research Group, Former Executive Committee

Bar Admissions
:: New York State
:: Eastern and Southern Districts of New York

BRIAN GARDNER

Brian Gardner is a former federal prosecutor, who, while an attorney at the United States Attorney’s office in the Eastern District of New York, tried numerous federal cases and was honored for his work by the Justice Department and commended by District Court Judges.

Mr. Gardner is a founding member of Sullivan Gardner PC, and oversees the firm’s litigation. Since the founding of the firm he has engaged in a complex civil and criminal litigation practice, including commercial, construction, regulatory, environmental and white collar criminal litigation.

Mr. Gardner’s clients include some of the largest road builders, Con Edison area contractors, waste management and recycling, demolition, trucking, concrete, and general contractor firms in the New York metropolitan area. Mr. Gardner has successfully represented the trucking industry in its litigation against the MTA’s imposed bridge limitations, successfully defended the first large-scale environmental prosecution brought by a District Attorney’s office, and obtained relief for construction entities owed funds regarding their heroic work at the World Trade Center. Mr. Gardner is currently overseeing the firm’s defense of the largest action ever brought by the NYS Labor Department against a construction related entity. Mr. Gardner’s criminal defense work includes the representation of a president of one of the largest New York labor unions, and very recently the representation of a trustee of one of the largest construction labor organizations and trade associations in a federal criminal prosecution.

Mr. Gardner also regularly acts as New York litigation counsel for a multinational public oil services company, one of the largest New York entertainment venues and numerous individuals in both federal and state court matters. He has extensive knowledge of construction litigation, government regulation, environmental law, heavy construction, waste and debris, immigration detention, fraud, RICO and general commercial law.

Mr. Gardner tries and argues matters in both federal and state trial and appellate courts, in addition to his representation of clients before the numerous government agencies. A significant portion of his practice is before the appellate courts. Indeed, Mr. Gardner was recently featured on the front page of the New York Law Journal regarding his successful representation of an individual in overturning a 15 year-old conviction. This case was successfully argued by him before the New York State Court of Appeals. He has also received numerous accolades for obtaining the release of an individual in immigration detention, in a published and often cited opinion. Mr. Gardner’s work has been the subject of numerous news stories in both the legal and general press.

Mr. Gardner is the attorney in countless published opinions before the Appellate Courts, and Trial courts. Mr. Gardner also served as an Assistant District Attorney in Queens County, where he tried many cases and handled and argued a large number of appeals.

Education
:: State University of New York, Stony Brook (B.A. 1987)
:: Rutgers School of Law (J.D. 1990)

Affiliations
:: Construction Trucking Association, Board Member

Bar Admissions
:: New York State
:: Eastern and Southern Districts of New York
:: United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit and Third Circuit