*Editor’s Note: This article originally was published in The Legal Intelligencer on May 14, 2024. On July 17, Cavan Sullivan became the youngest player in Major League Soccer history, and the youngest to debut in any major U.S. professional sports league, when he entered the Philadelphia Union’s match against the New England Revolution as a substitute.

Soccer runs in Ballard Spahr private client practice leader Heike Sullivan’s blood, if her family’s ties to the Philadelphia Union are any indicator.