William F. Lee
| William F. Lee | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Lawyer |
| Known for | Iran-Contra investigation, Harvard Board |
William F. Lee (b. 1950) is a leading American intellectual property and commercial litigation trial attorney. As co-managing partner of WilmerHale, Lee was the first Asian-American to lead a major American law firm. He is also Senior Fellow of the Harvard Corporation, the governing board of Harvard University.
Lee was born in Philadelphia in 1950 to Chinese immigrant parents who arrived in the United States in 1948. Lee received an A.B. magna cum laude from Harvard University in 1972, an M.B.A. with Distinction from Cornell University in 1976, and a J.D., magna cum laude and Order of the Coif from Cornell Law School in 1976.
Lee is married to Leslie Lee. He has three children and four grandchildren.
Lee joined the Boston-based law firm of Hale & Dorr in 1976. He chaired the firm's Litigation Department for four years and served as managing partner from 2000 to 2004.
In 2004, Hale & Dorr merged with the Washington, D.C.-based law firm of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering to form Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr. Lee served as co-managing partner of the merged law firm, which is now known as WilmerHale, from 2004 to 2011. Since the merger, WilmerHale has grown to thirteen offices in five countries with nearly 1000 lawyers and one billion dollars in revenues annually.
Lee’s practice focuses primarily on intellectual property and commercial litigation. Lee has tried more than 100 cases to judgment and has argued more than 50 appeals before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and other Courts of Appeals. He has served as lead trial counsel in several notable cases, including representing Apple in the “smart phone war” patent litigations. In August 2012, a jury awarded Apple more than $1 billion for infringement by Samsung.
From July 1987 to June 1989, Lee served as associate counsel to Independent Counsel Lawrence E. Walsh in the Iran-Contra investigation. In that capacity, Lee was responsible for certain portions of the grand jury investigation and resulting indictments.
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