Overview
Brian K. Lee is a partner in Nutter’s Litigation Department. He is a versatile and experienced trial attorney with a multifaceted practice focusing on business litigation, real estate and environmental litigation, and products liability litigation. Brian excels at helping clients make sense of nuanced legal issues and developing and implementing creative strategies that drive successful outcomes for his clients.
In the commercial litigation arena, Brian represents a wide variety of clients, including large and small corporations, financial institutions, and insurance companies in complex commercial and financial disputes, focusing on contract disputes, business torts, unfair competition claims, and insurance coverage disputes.
In the real estate and environmental areas, Brian works with institutional property owners and investors, commercial landlords and tenants, financial institutions, developers, and trustees in disputes concerning commercial leasing, zoning, foreclosure, commercial evictions, land title, and construction disputes, as well representing clients in CERLCA (superfund) litigation.
Brian’s products liability practice entails representing companies, including those in the life sciences, automotive, and building products industries, in state and federal litigation filed throughout the country.
Notable Experience and Client Impact:
- Obtaining a trial verdict in favor of a real estate investment entity in a contract dispute following a commercial real estate sale
- Obtaining a trial verdict in favor of a building products manufacturer relating to claims of tortious negligence after a month-long jury trial in the federal court
- Obtaining a trial verdict in favor of an automotive client against a former principal in a breach of contract and business tort dispute
- Obtaining dismissal of litigation at the motion to dismiss stage on behalf of an x-ray component manufacturer in a case filed by a former distributor in federal court
- Successfully representing landlords in commercial leasing and real estate disputes, including through multiple trials in Massachusetts state courts
- Representing an insurer in an insurance coverage dispute involving hundreds of claims relating to Hurricane Maria
- Successfully defending a SWAT vehicle manufacturer in federal court against product liability claims
- Obtaining dismissal of litigation at the motion to dismiss and summary judgment stages of products liability cases filed in state and federal courts throughout United States on behalf of a paper manufacturer
- Obtaining a favorable result for a protein crystallography device manufacturer in federal court after successful representation at the summary-judgment stage
Brian is also actively involved in the firm’s pro bono efforts. He has represented foster children in a class action lawsuit seeking to reform the state’s child welfare system, parents in a public school system against a local charter school, and a veteran seeking to obtain disability benefits. He is also a former co-chair of the Citizen Schools Mock Trial Program, which seeks to expand middle school students’ interest in the legal profession.
Prior to joining Nutter, Brian gained legal experience as an intern for the General Counsel at the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Department and as a member of the Boston University Civil Litigation clinic. During law school, Brian was a member of the Boston University Law Review and a Dean’s Award Recipient.
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Boston University School of Law, J.D.
University of Michigan, B.A.
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- Massachusetts
- U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
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Brian has represented foster children in a class action lawsuit seeking to reform the state’s child welfare system, parents in a public school system against a local charter school, and a veteran seeking to obtain disability benefits.
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During law school, Brian was a member of the Boston University Law Review and a Dean’s Award Recipient.