Jae Hong Lee is an associate in the Litigation Department of Morrison & Foerster's San Diego office. He has worked on a broad range of matters, including product liability litigation, patent litigation, patent prosecution, patent interference, and securities litigation.

Dr. Lee received his J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law in 2005 where he was an Annual Review Advisor (2004-2005), Article Editor (2003-2004), and Member (2002-2003) for the Berkeley Technology Law Journal. He was a member of the Ecology Law Quarterly (2002) and Communications Director for the Health and Biotechnology Law Society (2003-2004), where he was also a member from 2002-2003. Dr. Lee received the Grace C. Barbee Fellowship in Law and Medicine (2003-2004) and was a Fellow at the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology (2004-2005).

Dr. Lee received his M.P.H. in 2001 from the Harvard School of Public Health. He received his M.D. in 1993 from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. During medical school, Dr. Lee received an American Heart Association Medical Student Research Fellowship, a National Institute of Mental Health/Measey Foundation Training Grant in Behavioral Neuroscience, and membership in the Society of Penn Medical Scholars. Dr. Lee received his B.A. in biophysics in 1987 from The Johns Hopkins University where he graduated with departmental honors and recognition on the Dean’s List. He was a member of the Alpha Epsilon Delta Honor Society and was a Pennwalt Foundation Scholar.

Dr. Lee worked as a summer associate at Morrison & Foerster in 2004. Prior to joining Morrison & Foerster, he was a Regulatory Research Consultant at Genentech, Inc. (2003-2005). Dr. Lee was the Senior Medical Policy Analyst for the National Center for Policy Research for Women & Families (now the National Research Center for Women & Families) (2001-2002) and a Clinical Research Fellow at the UCLA Health Sciences Center and Harbor-UCLA Medical Center (1995-2000). From 1993-1994, Dr. Lee completed a surgical internship at Yale-New Haven Hospital.

Dr. Lee has a California State medical license and is a Diplomate of the National Board of Medical Examiners (1994).

Selected Publications

Law Articles

• Herman J and Lee JH (2008) “The Political Question Doctrine: A Potential Weapon for Military Contractors.” Skywritings, Spring 2008.
• Lee JH (2004) “Batzel v. Smith & Barrett v. Rosenthal: Defamation Liability for Third-Party Content on the Internet.” 19 Berkeley Tech. LJ. 469.

Op-ed Articles

• Lee JH (2002) “Risk Lies in Tuna Surprise.” The Baltimore Sun August 19, 2002 page 9A.

Articles and Commentary in Peer-Reviewed Medical & Science Journals

• Lee JH and Zuckerman D (2002) “Silicon, Silicone, and Breast Implants.” Pediatrics 110:1030.
• Lee JH and Zuckerman D (2001) “Screening for Breast Cancer with Mammography.” Lancet 358: 2164-2165.
• Lee JH, Kelly DF, Oertel M, McArthur DL, Glenn TC, Vespa P, Boscardin WJ, Martin NA (2001) “Carbon Dioxide Reactivity, Pressure Autoregulation, and Metabolic Suppression Reactivity after Head Injury: a Transcranial Doppler Study.” J Neurosurg 95: 222-232.
• Lee JH, Martin NA, Alsina G, McArthur DL, Zaucha K, Hovda D, Becker DP (1997) “Hemodynamically Significant Cerebral Vasospasm and Outcome after Head Injury: a Prospective Study.” J. Neurosurg 87: 221-233.
• Lee JH, Goedert M, Hill WD, Lee VM-Y, Trojanowski JQ (1993) “Tau Proteins Are Abnormally Expressed in Olfactory Epithelium of Alzheimer Patients and Developmentally Regulated in Human Fetal Spinal Cord.” Experimental Neurology 121:93-105.
• Oertel M, Kelly DF, Lee JH, McArthur DL, Glenn TC, Vespa P, Boscardin WJ, Hovda DA, Martin NA (2002) “Efficacy of Hyperventilation, Blood Pressure Elevation, and Metabolic Suppression Therapy in Controlling Intracranial Pressure after Head Injury.” J Neurosurg 97: 1045-53.
• Oskouian RJ Jr, Martin NA, Lee JH, Glenn TC, Guthrie D, Gonzalez NR, Afari A, Vinuela F (2002) “Multimodal Quantitation of the Effects of Endovascular Therapy for Vasospasm on Cerebral Blood Flow, Transcranial Doppler Ultrasonography Velocities, and Cerebral Artery Diameters. ” Neurosurgery 51:30-41.
• Bergsneider M, Holly LT, Lee JH, King WA, Frazee JG (2000) “Endoscopic Management of Cysticercal Cysts within the Lateral and Third Ventricles.” J Neurosurg 92:14-23.
• Oertel M, Kelly DF, McArthur D, Boscardin WJ, Glenn TC, Lee JH, Gravori T, Obukhov D, McBride DQ, Martin NA (2002) “Progressive Hemorrhage after Head Injury: Predictors and Consequences of the Injury in Evolution.” J Neurosurg 96:109-116.