William F Lee

Practice Areas

Bill Lee is a leading trial and appellate lawyer and intellectual property litigator who has represented a variety of technology-focused clients for more than 40 years. Mr. Lee has tried more than 200 cases to verdict and argued more than 100 cases to the Court of Appeals of the Federal Circuit and other appellate courts. Those have included some of the highest profile cases of the last decade.

Mr. Lee has acted as lead trial counsel for Apple Inc. in the "smart phone war" litigations; in several cases between Apple, Intel and Qualcomm; and in a number of other federal court cases involving genetically engineered products, laser optics, video compression, cellular communications, remote data storage, secure Internet communications, pharmaceutical products, high-speed chromatography and medical devices. Mr. Lee also achieved a victory as lead trial counsel for Harvard in the case challenging its admissions policies as discriminatory.

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Professional Memberships

Mr. Lee is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. In July 2010, Mr. Lee was appointed a Fellow of the Harvard Corporation. In 2014, he was elected the Senior Fellow of the Harvard Corporation.

Personal

JD, magna cum laude, Cornell Law School, 1976; MBA, with Distinction, Cornell University, 1976; AB, magna cum laude, Harvard University, 1972.