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201 St. Charles Avenue
New Orleans, LA 70170-5100
504.582.8664 tel
504.589.8664 fax


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Andy Lee enjoys an active litigation practice focused in the areas of business and commercial disputes, corporate compliance and corporate and securities litigation, and fiduciary and officer liability litigation.

Mr. Lee also represents private equity and other financial investors and their portfolio companies. Recent matters include representing: public companies involved in disputes with former officers and directors; both sides of trade secrets theft actions; manufacturing companies in collection actions against SPE's; individual investors in shareholder derivative and fiduciary breach claims; corporations in computer software performance arbitrations; municipalities and land-owners in land-use and constitutional takings actions; and clients in numerous other commercial disputes. Mr. Lee also advises clients regarding records retention policies and issues, including electronic discovery.

Mr. Lee is active in legal education and attorney associations. In addition to speaking frequently at CLE events on subjects ranging from professionalism to legal technology to trial and appellate practice, Mr. Lee serves on the adjunct faculty of Tulane University Law School, where he teaches trial skills.  Mr. Lee is the former president of the Federal Bar Association (New Orleans Chapter). 

Mr. Lee also actively handles pro bono matters on the firm’s behalf, and he serves on the board of directors and is a past president of New Orleans Area Habitat for Humanity.

Noteworthy

• Law Clerk to Hon. John R. Brown, Chief Judge U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals (1990–1991)
• Listed in The Best Lawyers in America® 2009 (Copyright 2008 by Woodward/White, Inc., Aiken, SC) in the area of Commercial Litigation (listed annually since 2005)
• AV® Peer Review Rating in Martindale-Hubbell. CV, BV and AV are registered certification marks of Reed Elsevier Properties Inc., used in accordance with the Martindale-Hubbell certification procedures, standards and policies. Martindale-Hubbell is the facilitator of a peer review rating process. Ratings reflect the confidential opinions of members of the Bar and the Judiciary. Martindale-Hubbell Ratings fall into two categories—legal ability and general ethical standards.
• Named in New Orleans Magazine's "Top Lawyers" (2004–2007)
• National recipient of the Federal Bar Association Elaine R. Fisher Award for Exemplary Community, Public, and Charitable Service (2002)
• Recipient of the New Orleans Area Habitat for Humanity George Merrill Award, Habitat Volunteer of the Year, Louisiana (2000)
• President's Award, Federal Bar Association (2008)
• Firestone 100 Who Serve Award Recipient

News

• Sixty-Three Jones Walker Attorneys Named in The Best Lawyers in America® 2009; Jones Walker Top-Listed in Louisiana
• Lee Presents at Cutting Edge Music Conference
• Lee Receives President’s Award from Federal Bar Association
• Hardin and Lee to Serve on Panel at 16^th Annual Alvin B. Rubin Symposium
• Lee to Speak at "Document Retention and Destruction" Seminar
• Lee Article Featured in the Louisiana Bar Journal

Presentations

• “Recovery in the New Orleans Community: A Report Card and Prospectus for the Future”, August 14, 2008
• "Ethical and Professionalism Issues Arising from Criminal Inquiries to a Corporation and Its Officers", May 15, 2008
• "Sarbanes-Oxley and Corporate Compliance: Impact of Government Regulation, Audits, and Regulatory Compliance on Businesses and their Document Management Programs", March 27, 2008
• Instructor, Trial Academy, July 2007
• "The Discovery Revolution: E-Discovery and the Lawsuit of the 21^st Century", March 2007
• "Practical Considerations of the Federal Rules Changes", February 2007

Publications

• "Keep or Toss? Document Retention Policies in the Digital Era"
  Louisiana Bar Journal, Vol. 55, No. 4, December 2007
• "Civil Procedure Review"
  Annual Survey of Louisiana Law, Louisiana State Bar Association, 1999–2006,
• "1999 Survey of Louisiana Civil Procedure"
  Annual Survey of Louisiana Law, Louisiana State Bar Association, 1999
• "Pitfalls for In-House Counsel"
  American Bar Association TIPS Journal, January 1, 1997
• "Tribute to John R. Brown"
  Louisiana State Bar Association Journal, April 1995

Memberships

• American Bar Association
• Bar Association of the Fifth Federal Circuit
• Bureau of Governmental Research
• Federal Bar Association (Member, Board of Directors, New Orleans Chapter, 1993–2003; President, 2001–2002)
• The Foundation of the Federal Bar Association (Fellow)
• Louisiana Bar Foundation (Fellow)
• Louisiana State Bar Association (Member, CLE Committee; House of Delegates)
• Louisiana Technology Council
• New Orleans Area Habitat for Humanity (Member, Board, 1994–2000; Vice-President, 2004 to date; Steering Committee Chair, NOAHH Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Work Project, 2008; President, Board, 1999–2000)
• The Tulane Law School American Inn of Court
• Washington and Lee University New Orleans Alumni Chapter (Member, Board of Directors, 2000 to date; President, 2005 to date)