Clarence Lee is an experienced litigator who represents insurers in a wide range of insurance coverage counseling and litigation. Clarence provides insurance coverage advice and litigation representation on a variety of insurance issues, including managed care, errors and omissions, hospital liability, general liability, environmental, cyber, technology, director's and officer's liability, professional liability, and architects and engineers’ policies.
Clarence provides claims and coverage guidance in a monitoring and litigation capacity for insurers on complex claims, ranging from environmental site pollution to managed care claims. He has experience representing insurers in trial, alternative dispute resolution, and pre-dispute resolution, and works to find solutions to difficult client problems. Clarence also has experience drafting and advising on policy language.
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Outside of his insurance practice, Clarence has also represented clients in in intellectual property and commercial litigation. He also has an active pro bono practice that involves immigration and asylum cases, as well as family law issues in local courts.
Insurance
Select representations include:
- National coordinating counsel for a global casualty and property insurer for complex mass tort claims.
- Trials of health care and medical-related coverage matters in courts across the country, including with respect to major medical issues such as spinal surgeries, hospital liabilities, and medical device issues.
- A specialty insurance company in the favorable outcome of insurance coverage litigation regarding managed care errors and omissions and also cyber insurance, in particular the interplay between two primary level policies with another insurance/excess clause.
- A major specialty insurance company in obtaining summary judgment on bad faith claim in Maryland.
- A major health care insurance company in managed care coverage arbitration leading to favorable settlement.
- A major casualty and property insurance company in negotiating a favorable and creative settlement relating to lost or missing general liability policies.
- A major casualty and property insurance company in multiple Chinese drywall-related claims, including coverage litigation.
- A major casualty and property insurance companies in commercial liability coverage litigation, including toxic tort and environmental actions.
- California
- District of Columbia
- Virginia
Firm Involvement
- Member, Evaluation Committee
Degrees
- J.D., Washington University School of Law, Phi Alpha Delta, 2004
- B.A., Cornell University, 2001
Honors & Awards
- Named to The Best Lawyers in America list, Insurance Law, 2024 to present
- Listed in Washington, D.C. Super Lawyers as a Rising Star in Insurance Coverage, 2014-2019
Clerkship
- The Honorable Audrey Flessig, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri
Professional Involvement
- American Bar Association
- Editor of Insurance Law Journal
- Claims Litigation Management
- 2013 Fellow, Leadership Council on Legal Diversity
After Work
Clarence has a large family, with four boys of all ages playing every sport imaginable. When he’s not shuttling them around, he enjoys playing guitar in his church band, a quick round of golf, reading novels and travel.