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Lee began his legal career clerking for the Honorable Ronald R. Holliger at the Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District. Following his judicial clerkship, Lee worked at Rouse Hendricks German May PC, where his practice concentrated on defending large business clients in multi-million dollar contract disputes and class actions. In 2008, Lee joined Stueve Siegel Hanson, where he has focused on securities fraud, commercial disputes, and consumer class actions, and represents workers seeking unpaid wages from multi-billion dollar employers. As a member of the Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association, Lee has served on the YLS Board as Chair of the Ross T. Roberts Inn of Court and is a member of the Federal Courts Advocates Section. He is a 2007 graduate of the KCMBA Bar Leadership Academy.

Lee received his J.D. from the University of Missouri, Kansas City, magna cum laude, Order of Barristers, with an emphasis in litigation. During law school, Lee served on the Moot Court Board and the Law Review, receiving the Candler S. Rogers Award for the best legal writing submitted to the Law Review. He also served on UMKC's National Trial Team at the national competition in Boston, defeating the Harvard Law School trial team. Lee received his B.S. in philosophy and English (cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, University Scholar) and his M.A. in English from the University of South Dakota, in his home town of Vermillion. As a graduate student at USD, Lee taught literature and composition. Before law school, Lee worked as Assistant Vice President and Electronic Banking Manager for Citizens Bank & Trust.

Representative Litigation at Stueve Siegel Hanson:
McCormack-Missouri Wireless, Inc., et al. v. George K. Baum Advisors LLC, et al.: In this securities case against investment bankers and brokers for statutory and common law fraud, Lee represents a dozen independent telephone companies and not-for-profit co-ops in Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, and Kentucky seeking to recover more than $25 million they invested in Crossroads Wireless.

Gipson v. Southwestern Bell Telephone Co.: Lee represents call center workers seeking unpaid overtime in Southwestern Bell's five-state southwest region. The United States District Court for the District of Kansas, the Honorable Eric Melgren, conditionally certified the case as a collective action and authorized notice to thousands of call center employees to inform them of their right to participate in the case. The workers seek overtime wages for unpaid work performed before their shift to log into computer systems, as well as lunch-time and post-shift work for which they were not paid.

Teeter v. NCR Corp.: In the United States District Court for the Central District of California, the employer of Customer Engineers across the United States has agreed to pay $10.5 million to settle claims for unpaid wages. Stueve Siegel Hanson negotiated this settlement on behalf of the class of employees while a motion by NCR was pending in which it sought to dispose of the majority of the class claims on summary judgment.

Cost of Insurance Litigation: Lee represents consumers seeking recovery of overcharges on various types of life insurance policies issued by some of the nation's largest insurance companies. SSH has filed multiple lawsuits around the United States to enforce consumers' rights. See our Cost of Insurance investigation page, http://www.stuevesiegel.com/CM/Custom/TOCCurrentCases.asp, or contact Lee for more information.

Dernovish et al. v. AT&T Operations, Inc.: When Stueve Siegel Hanson's prosecution of the case against Southwestern Bell (see above) attracted the attention of call center workers employed by Bell's affiliate AT&T Operations, Lee and his colleagues at SSH filed suit against AT&T in the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri, alleging violations of the Fair Labor Standard Act. The workers seek unpaid overtime wages owed since January 2006, and seek collective action status.