- Lecturer in Law
Biography
Jiyun Cameron Lee is a commercial litigation partner at Folger Levin LLP in San Francisco, and the chair of its Litigation Practice Group.
Jiyun has represented financial institutions, rental car companies, law firms, hotels, technology companies, and non-profit organizations as both defendants and plaintiffs. Particular areas of expertise include financial litigation, contract disputes, trade secret misappropriation, computer forensics, advising and defending public accommodations under the Americans with Disabilities Act, and defending employers in labor and employment disputes, including class action lawsuits alleging violations of wage-and-hour laws, ERISA, and the WARN Act.
Jiyun is an experienced trial lawyer who has conducted trials in both federal and state courts, as well as evidentiary hearings before courts and administrative agencies. She has extensive experience handling claims involving injunctive relief, and has successfully obtained preliminary injunctions and specific performance decrees on behalf of clients in contractual and intellectual property disputes.
Since 2011, Jiyun has served as a volunteer mediator for the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, and has mediated contract, intellectual property, employment, and ADA matters. In 2018, Jiyun was selected as a Higginbotham Fellow of the American Arbitration Association.
Jiyun obtained her law degree, cum laude, from Harvard Law School in 1992, and received her B.A. in Politics and Legal Studies with Honors, Phi Beta Kappa, in 1989 from the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is a member of the California Bar.