Kenneth E. Lee is recognized as one of the nation’s most highly respected lawyers for bet-the-company disputes, complex business litigation, securities litigation, corporate governance disputes, and complex internal investigations. The 2024 Chambers USA Guide ranked Mr. Lee individually as among the nation’s top practitioners in Securities Litigation, the 2024 edition of Benchmark Litigation recognized him as a “Litigation Star,” the 2024 edition of The Legal 500 recognized him nationally for Securities Litigation Defense, and Lawdragon recognized him on its 2024 list of the “500 Leading Lawyers in America,” and its 2024 & 2025 lists of the “500 Leading Litigators in America.”
Significantly, under Mr. Lee’s leadership, Levine Lee became the only boutique in the United States to be ranked by the 2024 Chambers USA Guide as one of the nation’s top law firms in Securities Litigation and was similarly ranked nationally by the 2024 edition of The Legal 500 as a leading firm for Securities Litigation Defense—one of the few boutiques to achieve that designation. As Chambers writes, Mr. Lee is “regularly retained by public company clients on significant securities” matters, has “an encyclopedic knowledge of legal matters,” and “spearheads strategic decision making” for his clients in “delicate” and “sensitive” situations.
Mr. Lee began his career at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP after graduating from the University of Chicago Law School, where he received the Thomas Mulroy prize for oral advocacy and the Tony Patiño Fellowship, and Harvard College.
Mr. Lee serves on Majority Leader Schumer’s Judicial Screening Panel. He is a member of the Federal Bar Council and the Asian American Bar Association of New York and has served on a number of non-profit boards.
Updated Sep 2024
