Garber, Leonard N.

Lee DeJulius gained substantive knowledge and experience while serving as a law clerk to Chief Justice William Rehnquist on the United States Supreme Court and to Judge Diarmuid O'Scannlain on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Lee worked, in those capacities, on issues ranging from national security and terrorism, to Establishment Clause and free speech, to ERISA and other federal statutory schemes. Since entering private practice, Lee has focused on complex trial and appellate litigation and has substantial experience in the areas of federal jurisdiction and procedure, labor and employment, products liability, construction, and constitutional law. Lee also has experience in advising corporations on proceedings before the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation and has assisted in the drafting and updating of the "Multi-District Litigation" chapter of Business and Commercial Litigation in Federal Courts (West Pub. 2d ed).

Lee successfully has tried cases as a first- and second-chair litigator. He also successfully has drafted and argued numerous dispositive and other motions before state and federal trial courts in multiple jurisdictions and has served as primary counsel for negotiations and mediations through the American Arbitration Association. In addition, Lee successfully has drafted and argued cases before state and federal appellate courts and has been counsel of record in the United States Supreme Court.

Lee is a member of the Pennsylvania, Allegheny County, and Third Circuit Bar Associations. He also is a member of the Federalist Society, for which he is vice president of the Pittsburgh Lawyers' Chapter and serves on the national Federalism and Separation of Powers Executive Committee. Lee was appointed by Senator Arlen Specter to serve on the 2007 Federal Judicial Nominating Panel for the Western District of Pennsylvania.

In addition to his private practice, Lee serves as an adjunct professor of law at the University of Pittsburgh Law School, teaching a constitutional law class on the First Amendment religion clauses.