Biography
Experience
Before joining Cannata, O’Toole, & Olson, Mr. Lee worked as a litigation associate at an insurance defense firm, representing insurance companies and their insureds in a matters ranging from professional liability, construction defect, environmental law, employment law, and commercial litigation.
Mr. Lee is admitted to the State Bar of California and earned his law degree from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. During law school, he served as Senior Supervising Editor of the Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly and as Co-Chair on the Hastings Moot Court Board. There, he represented his school in two moot court competitions, coached four highly successful moot court teams of his peers, and won Western Regional Champion and Second Best Brief in the Thomas Tang Moot Court Competition and Best Brief in the Tulane National Sports Law Moot Court Competition. He also participated in the Hastings Appellate Project, which regularly represents undocumented immigrants before the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Mr. Lee was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. He earned his Bachelors of Science degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley. When not zealously advocating for his clients, he enjoys listening to and playing music, watching movies and sports games, cooking, and coaching moot court competition teams for his alma mater.
Mr. Lee can be reached by email at vlee@cofolaw.com.