Bennett J Lee

Practice Areas

Bennett Lee is managing partner of the firm's San Francisco office. He represents general contractors, design engineering firms, construction managers, and owners on a wide variety of issues arising from industrial, transportation and commercial construction projects, including power and hydro plants, office buildings, roadways, hospitals, prisons, schools, dams, mass transit systems, tunnels, and pipelines.

Bennett counsels and advises clients on contract preparation, administration and termination. He has extensive experience in claim preparation, prosecution and dispute resolution on federal, state, municipal and private contracts.

Bennett is a recognized expert in federal government contracting on issues ranging from compliance, bid protests, to claim preparation, pricing, and dispute resolution.

He has significant litigation experience before both federal and state courts, and domestic arbitration associations, on a wide variety of suretyship and construction law issues. Bennett has also arbitrated cases internationally, including before the ICC, DIAC, DIFC, and ad hoc arbitrations in Dubai, U.A.E.

In the first four years of his career, Bennett was a commissioned officer in the United States Navy where he served as a judge advocate and Special Assistant United States Attorney.