Lee Edward Berlik Leesburg, Virginia
| Partner | |
| phone | 703-777-7319 (Ext. 302) |
| fax | (703) 777-3656 |
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Lee is an attorney in the firm's Leesburg office. He regularly represents emerging and established technology companies, banks, and other small and large businesses in complex commercial litigation involving contracts, intellectual property, trade secrets, business torts and various statutory violations in both state and federal courts.
Lee joined the firm after leaving Boston-based Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo, where he worked for six years. Prior to working for Mintz Levin, Lee was a litigator in the Tysons Corner office of Troutman Sanders.
Lee is a member of several national, state, and local professional organizations. He served for several years as an editor of the quarterly newsletter published by the Pretrial Practice & Discovery Committee of the American Bar Association's Section of Litigation, and in that capacity received the ABA's Outstanding Newsletter award for 2001-2002. Lee has also served on various committees of the Fairfax Bar Association.
Lee is admitted to practice in Virginia and the District of Columbia. He earned his B.S., with high honors, from Rochester Institute of Technology and his J.D., cum laude, from American University's Washington College of Law, where he was a member of the editorial board of The American University Journal of International Law and Policy.
Lee grew up in The Netherlands and spent some time in upstate New York before settling down in Northern Virginia, where he has stayed since 1993. He now lives with his wife and three children in Leesburg, Virginia. In his spare time, Lee can be found playing tennis, skiing, biking, or dabbling in photography.
- Bar Admissions:
- Virginia
- U.S. Supreme Court
- U.S. Court of Appeals 4th Circuit
- U.S. District Court Eastern District of Virginia
- U.S. District Court Western District of Virginia
- U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia
- U.S. Bankruptcy Court Eastern District of Virginia
- District of Columbia, 1998
- Education:
- American University, Washington College of Law, Washington, District of Columbia
J.D.
Honors: Cum Laude
Law Journal: Journal of International Law & Policy, 1994 - 1995 - Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York
B.S.
Honors: Magna Cum Laude
Major: Professional & Technical Communications
- Published Works:
- Employment Law (Contributor), Annual Review of Dev. in Business & Corp. Litigation, 2006
- ABA Proposal Muddies Pretrial Publicity Waters (co-author), National Law Journal, Aug. 15, 1994
- Representative Cases:
- WAKA, LLC v. Humphrey, Va. Cir. LEXIS 96 (Fairfax Cir. Ct. 2007)
- IPXL Holdings, L.L.C. v. Amazon.com, Inc., 430 F.3d 1377 (Fed. Cir. 2005)
- Past Employment Positions:
- Mintz Levin, Associate, 2000 - 2006
- Troutman Sanders, Associate, 1998 - 2000
