William Lee is a leading trial and appellate lawyer and intellectual property litigator. From 2004-2011, he served as co-managing partner of WilmerHale, becoming the first Asian American to lead a major American law firm. Between 1987-1989, he served as associate counsel to Independent Counsel Lawrence Walsh in the Iran-Contra investigation. He was also in 2014 elected the Senior Fellow of the Harvard Corporation, the governing board of Harvard University.