[4] Sulaiman Abdullah was a Universiti Malaya law lecturer and served as both Malaysian Bar secretary (1993-1995) and president (2000-2001).
[4] In an interview with the Star in 2007 he said that as a lawyer, he was always interested in the way the nation is governed which was why he first stood for office in the Bar's executive committee shortly after the 1988 judicial crisis.
[6] Sulaiman Abdullah was one of the lead prosecutors against former Prime Minister Najib Razak in the SRC International case.
[4] In later cases, Sulaiman was lawyer to Kalsom Ismail, widow of former Malaysian Ambassador to the United States Jamaluddin Jarjis, in her family matrimonial asset or faraid dispute at the Syariah court.
[9] He also represented controversial Islamic preacher Zakir Naik in his defamation cases against DAP leaders M Kulasegaran and P Ramasamy.