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Practice Areas: Business & Tort Litigation; Issues & Appeals; Energy Dispute Resolution; Health Care Litigation & Government; Investigations; Defense

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Lee DeJulius, a former law clerk to Chief Justice William Rehnquist, focuses on complex trial and appellate matters. He has tried cases to juries, judges, and arbitration panels. Most recently, Lee has served as lead trial counsel for UPMC in its various commercial and antitrust disputes with Highmark, including lead counsel in a commercial arbitration that resulted in UPMC recovering over $188 million. He has appeared in dozens of appellate matters, arguing appeals in several different federal and state appellate courts and twice serving as counsel of record before the U.S. Supreme Court.

Some of Lee's additional successful representations include defending an oil and gas E&P company in a $1.6 billion commercial dispute before the High Court of Justice in London, England involving ownership of major oil concessions in Kurdistan, Iraq; prevailing on behalf of an E&P company in a multimillion dollar dispute regarding ownership of Marcellus Shale leases; and securing summary judgment on constitutional claims in a multibillion public nuisance lawsuit. He also successfully represented the University of Notre Dame regarding alleged Establishment Clause violations in replicating its ACE program and advised the university in its investigation following a fatal videography lift collapse during football practice.

In 2014, Chief Judge Theodore McKee appointed Lee to the Lawyers Advisory Committee to the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. He is a member of the Policy and Advocacy Working Group for the Energy Alliance of Greater Pittsburgh, and from 2008-2014, he served as an adjunct professor of law at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, teaching a class on the First Amendment.

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Firm Members: Anderson Bailey D. Member Charles Moellenberg, Jr. Ashvi Patel Connor Baer