Solomon Sugerman, a commercial traveller and stained glass manufacturer born in Scotland of Russian-Polish parents, remarried in 1907.

[2][5] Sugerman was admitted to the New South Wales Bar on 12 March 1926 and went into chambers with his friends David Roper and Alan Taylor.

His practice grew slowly and he was appointed KC in October 1943, after which he began to be briefed in important constitutional cases before the High Court of Australia.

On the presentation of his portrait to the New South Wales Supreme Court, it was said that the "endurance, renewal and national place of the ALJ is one of his most permanent monuments.

[2] He sat on the Full Court to hear the landmark New South Wales state constitutional law case of Clayton v Heffron where he joined the majority, writing a joint judgment with Chief Justice Evatt.

[10][2] At the Great Synagogue, Sydney, on 4 January 1928, Sugerman married Sarah Rosenblum, a schoolteacher from South Africa, with whom he had two sons.