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Background: |
Mr. Lee's practice focuses on national
security and technology law and policy. He advises and represents
clients on security, privacy, critical infrastructure protection,
computer crime, intellectual property, and other information
technology issues, including the legislative, regulatory and
public policy issues raised by those technologies. He also represents
clients in matters relating to export controls, economic sanctions,
and the counterterrorism and other national security programs
and agencies of the United States Government.
Mr. Lee was formerly Associate Deputy Attorney General with
the U.S. Department of Justice, where he served as Director
of the Executive Office of National Security. His responsibilities
included terrorism preparedness, foreign intelligence, and
other national security matters, transnational issues, and
the critical infrastructure protection initiatives of the
U.S. Department of Justice. From 1994 to 1998, Mr. Lee served
as General Counsel of the National Security Agency. In 1996,
he was Chief of Staff of the Central Intelligence Agency.
Prior to serving in the U.S. Government, Mr. Lee concentrated
on litigation, international, and regulatory matters in the
firm's Washington and Los Angeles offices.
Prior to joining Arnold & Porter in 1987, Mr. Lee clerked
for Justice John Paul Stevens of the Supreme Court of the
United States and for Judge Abner J. Mikva of the United States
Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia Circuit. Mr.
Lee was educated at Princeton University (A.B. with highest
honors), Oxford University (M.Phil. International Relations,
Rhodes Scholar), and Yale Law School (J.D., Article &
Book Review Editor, Yale Law Journal). |