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B.A., Indiana University of Pennsylvania
(1988)
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J.D., Duquesne University School of Law
(1991)
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Christopher T. Lee is a shareholder of Dickie, McCamey & Chilcote, P.C., Founder and Chair of the Food and Beverage Industry Practice Group, and a member of the firm’s Executive Committee. He concentrates his practice in the areas of food and beverage liability, commercial law and litigation, and toxic tort law.
For the last several years, Mr. Lee has focused his practice on issues unique to the food and beverage industry. He has represented national restaurant clients, food manufacturers, and distributors in outbreak and contamination claims throughout the United States. In particular, he has represented the following businesses in the noted outbreaks:
- Chi Chi’s green onion Hepatitis A outbreak (600 ill, including 4 deaths);
- Sheetz tomato Salmonella outbreak (500 ill) (National Coordinating Counsel for Sheetz);
- Peter Pan peanut butter Salmonella outbreak in Pennsylvania;
- Topps Meat Company frozen hamburger E. coli outbreak (40 ill) (National Coordinating Counsel for Topps); and
- Milan McDonald’s Hepatitis A outbreak (40 ill) (Coordinating Counsel).
He has also represented a national quick-service restaurant in connection with a shooting spree where five people were shot and three were killed.
He is a frequent lecturer having made presentations on food-borne illness claims, handling large food-borne outbreaks, nutritional labeling, valuing serious cases, discovery practices and procedures, and security issues involving restaurants.
Mr. Lee is a member of the Pennsylvania and American Bar Associations. He is admitted to practice before the Superior Court of Pennsylvania, Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Pennsylvania Defense Institute (PDI), representing the Western District of the Commonwealth and previously served on the Board of Governors of the Duquesne University School of Law Alumni Association.
Additionally, Mr. Lee is a board member of the Upper St. Clair Athletic Association, the Football Commissioner, and a representative of Upper St. Clair for the Greater 19 Youth Football League. He also volunteers for the Sheetz Family Christmas Program which provides gifts to disadvantaged children.
In September 2004, Mr. Lee was honored as “Attorney of the Year” by an international quick-service restaurant chain and was selected from counsel who represents the chain nationwide. Additionally, he was named in Pennsylvania Super Lawyers® as one of the top attorneys in the state in 2008, 2009, and 2010, as well as in the Super Lawyers Corporate Counsel edition. He also maintains an AV® Preeminent™ Peer Review Rating from Martindale-Hubbell.
Mr. Lee graduated from Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 1988 with a B.A. in Political Science/Business. He received his J.D. from Duquesne University School of Law in 1991 cum laude having finished ranked in the top ten of his class. While at Duquesne, Mr. Lee served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Law Review. |
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