Lee Crawford is a graduate from UCLA School of Law where she was Order of the Coif and served as the Articles Editor for the UCLA Law review.  Lee's practice focuses on commercial litigation and appellate work.  Lee has handled a broad range of business and commercial disputes, including matters involving products liability, insurance coverage, unfair competition, intellectual property, securities fraud, antitrust, real estate, and general business torts.  Lee has also worked on writs and appeals heard by the California Courts of Appeal, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and the United States Supreme Court.

 

Lee began her career in the Litigation Department at Proskauer Rose LLP in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., after spending a year following law school working on capital habeas matters for the Center for Death Penalty Litigation in Durham, North Carolina.

 

Among Lee's notable professional achievements is her collaboration on the successful appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court in Johnson v. California, 125 S. Ct. 1141 (2005), resulting in a historic settlement with the California Department of Corrections calling for the desegregation of California’s prison system.  Lee also worked on teams that successfully defended a putative nationwide class action involving allegations of defects in products involving more than $4 billion in goods sold in the U.S. market.