Barry W. Lee

Barry W. Lee


Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Recognized since 2013

San Francisco, California

Practice Areas

Commercial Litigation

Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Defendants

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Barry W. Lee, a partner in the San Francisco and Los Angeles offices, is co-chair of the trial practice group and the financial services litigation group. He focuses on commercial litigation and has extensive jury and bench trial experience encompassing a variety of areas, including real estate, banking/lender liability, antitrust/unfair competition, employment, consumer class actions, environmental, construction, probate, securities, products liability and insurance coverage. Barry’s most recent trial experience includes the successful defense of the purchaser of a $110 million loan from a trust established by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in connection with JP Morgan’s acquisition of certain Bear Stearns assets, and the successful defense of one of the nation’s leading health insurers in a whistleblower and wrongful employment termination action.

Barry was co-lead counsel with Robert A. Zeavin in Manatt’s successful representation of ICO Global Communications (Operations) Ltd. against The Boeing Co. and its Boeing Satellite Systems International subsidiary, which resulted in the largest total jury verdict in the U.S. for 2008.

Barry has been a contributing author to an antitrust treatise and has authored numerous articles and appeared as a speaker for the Practising Law Institute on various topics, including trial practice, discovery, directors’ and officers’ liability, professional liability insurance for lawyers and accountants, and antitrust.

Barry was a partner and chairperson of a San Francisco-based firm that combined with Manatt.

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Location
  • One Embarcadero Center, 30th Floor
    San Francisco, CA 94111
Education
  • University of California Hastings College of the Law, J.D., graduated 1979
Affiliations
  • American Bar Association, Section on Antitrust Law, Litigation Tort and Insurance Practice - Member
  • Association of Business Trial Lawyers of Northern California - Member

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP
Headquarters: Los Angeles, California

87 The Best Lawyers in America® awards

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Named "Lawyer of the Year" by Best Lawyers® for:
  • Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Defendants, San Francisco (2022)
Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America® 2025 for work in:
  • Commercial Litigation
  • Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Defendants
Awards:
  • Order of the Coif, 1979
Additional Areas of Practice:
  • Financial Services Regulation Law
  • Litigation - Banking and Finance

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