Lee Stein

Practice Areas

White Collar Criminal Defense & Government Investigations

Anti-Corruption Export Controls & Sanctions

Student Discipline and Title IX Litigation

Internal Investigations

Healthcare Fraud & Regulation

Career

Lee Stein, a former Assistant U.S. Attorney and Special Assistant Attorney General in the Arizona Attorney General’s Office, has over 25 years of experience representing clients in white collar prosecutions and government investigations. He also was a partner at Perkins Coie, LLP, where he chaired the firm’s national Investigations and White Collar Defense practice group.

Lee is an accomplished trial lawyer who represents Fortune 500 companies and individuals in sensitive internal investigations and criminal prosecutions in both federal and state courts. Lee has seen nearly every imaginable white collar issue, including SEC investigations, environmental and wildlife prosecutions, fraud cases and public corruption matters.

An area of emphasis for Lee over the last 10 years has been conducting special committee investigations for companies involving allegations of wrongdoing by officers and directors.

Lee regularly represents students accused of misconduct by their college or university. He has resolved many such matters and has successfully litigated cases before University Hearing Boards. Lee is well versed in Title IX and the constitutional rights of students involved in the disciplinary process.

Lee is a frequent speaker on white collar issues. He has trained corporate investigators on conducting internal investigations, appeared on panels on the FCPA and other white collar issues, and spoken to in-house counsel on ethical issues in internal investigations. He has also taught classes at the University of Arizona and Arizona State University law schools on corporate criminal issues and the lawyering process.

Lee graduated magna cum laude from the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University, where he was elected to the Order of the Coif and served as Editor-in-Chief of the Law Review. Following his law school graduation, Lee served as a law clerk to Arizona Supreme Court Justice James Moeller.

Professional Memberships

• ABA Criminal Justice Section, White Collar Crime Committee, Co-Chair – Southwest Region, Co-Chair FCPA Subcommittee

• Office of Senator John McCain’s Federal Judiciary Evaluation Committee, Member (former)

• Arizona Superior Court Felony Defense Review Committee, Member

• Lawyer Representative to the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference, 2004 – 2007

• Attorney General’s Capital Case Commission (former)

• Arizona Attorneys for Criminal Justice, Member

• National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Member

• Wong Sun Society of San Francisco, Member

Publications

• Fall 2014, ABA White Collar Crime Committee Newsletter “The Importance of Protecting the Privilege in Internal Investigations” (co-author)

• November 2012, Law360 “New FCPA Guidance: Important, But No Sea-Change” (co-author)

• March 2010, National Law Journal, “Culture of Cooperation, Weighing Benefits and Risks” (co-author)

• October 2010, “Consider the Source: How Weak Whistleblower Protection Outside the United States Threatens to Reduce the Impact of the Dodd-Frank Reward Among Foreign Nationals” The Third Annual National Institute on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act program book (co-author)

• October 2010 “Can Dodd-Frank Deliver on Its Whistleblower Protection Promise?” Directorship Magazine (co-author)

• July 2009, White Collar Crime Report. “The Disappearing White Collar Criminal Trial: Defendants Increasingly Choose Consequences of Plea Bargains Rather Than Risk Taking Cases Before Juries” (co-author)

• May 2008, Jurist Legal News & Research “Arizona school vouchers ruling casts doubt on future success of programs” (co-author)

• Winter 2008 American Bar Association’s Criminal Justice Section News, “Maintaining Credibility in FCPA Investigations (co-author)

• February 2001 Arizona Attorney “Carrots, Sticks and Criminal Penalties: Arizona Incentives for Corporate Compliance Planning” (co-author)

Personal

• Board of Directors of the Arizona Justice Project, President

• Board of Directors of the Arizona Center for Law in the Public Interest, Board Member and Past President

• Board of Directors, Teva Community

• Board of Directors, LoveAll10s

• Water Quality Assurance Revolving Fund, Advisory Board (former)

• Anti-Defamation League, Arizona Region, Board Member (former)