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| | Michael Sullivan & Associates, A Workers' Compensation Defense Law Firm, Opens Up In Oakland. Party to celebrate welcomes workers' compensation claims professionals.
By Lonce LaMon - October 5, 2014
Michael Sullivan & Associates, a California workers’ compensation defense law firm, has just opened up a new office in Oakland, California, to service clients in the Bay Area.
For many years a predominantly Los Angeles area defense firm, recently Michael Sullivan opened up in the Inland Empire. Then, just last month, his office at 1999 Harrison Street, Suite 1800, Oakland, California 94612 made its debut.
The Oakland office managing attorney is Megan Sullivan. “I can actually see my apartment from my office window,” Megan says, who just one month ago moved to Emeryville, a section of Oakland, from Los Angeles. “I really like it. My husband is actually from the area, as well. His parents live in the East Bay, in Livermore. When we started dating, he lived in San Francisco, and I lived in L.A., while we were courting back and forth. So, we spent a lot of time in the Bay Area together.”
Megan Sullivan, attorney at law
Megan Sullivan is the youngest sister of Michael Sullivan. However, she did not evolve her career to this point under Michael’s control. A highly literate woman, Megan nearly went to graduate school to get her PhD in comparative literature instead of going to law school. She spent a year abroad at the University of Granada in Spain, in an intensive program of immersion in the Spanish language and culture. Henceforth, she is fully fluent in the Spanish language.
“I love literature and language,” Megan says, “So, I ended up going to study abroad. I always knew I wanted to go somewhere for a study abroad program. I really like to read. I read a lot of science fiction. I’m kind of nerdy in that way.”
With her love of language she eventually did decide on law school. “When I compared the life plan, I decided law school was a better option. So, it (literature) is a love of mine.”
Megan Sullivan was born and grew up in southern Orange County, California. She attended Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles for her undergraduate work and graduated in 2003. Then she attended Southwestern Law School in Los Angeles and graduated with her Juris Doctorate in 2008. She passed the bar soon thereafter.
Here's looking west at the dismantling of the Cantilever section of the old Bay Bridge earlier this year. The construction of the new Bay Bridge to replace the 1930s model has been a marvel in the Bay Area during recent years. The upper deck fell onto the lower deck in a section during the earthquake of October 1989. This writer drove over the bridge from Oakland to San Francisco the night before that happened. iStockphoto
During and in between her undergraduate education and her law school, Megan took time to find herself by working in a few different legal departments. “I was at a corporate legal department at a big business. And at a bankruptcy firm briefly. And there was another one.”
She got a taste for what is out there and that it’s “not just workers’ comp” she says. She did assistant work for Michael Sullivan early on and was a paralegal in the firm for a year before law school.
“I realized that one of the things I love about this firm is I have the opportunity to work with people that I really respect,” Megan confides. “I trust them. In a lot of offices there can be a lot of drama and people pushing each other to get out of the way. And I don’t really feel like that exists in this firm. And I really like that. And it works for me.”
When asked how she feels about being a managing attorney now at this new Oakland office, she expressed, “I love it!”
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Journalist Lonce LaMon, lonce@adjuster.com, All rights reserved adjustercom and Lonce LaMon
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