Profile
Byung-Joo (BJ) Lee is a partner at D’Light, where he deals with various litigation and dispute resolution, including civil, criminal, and corporate reorganization matters. He graduated Seoul National University with a Physics major (B.S.) and studied at Harvard Law School (LL.M.). He was admitted both to the Korean Bar (1996) and California Bar (2003). He is a veteran litigator with 25+ years of experience mainly at Shin & Kim (1996-2013) as the department chief of the Corporate Reorganization and Insolvency Team and actively involved in the international matters as the Chairman of the Inter-Pacific Bar Association (IPBA) Insolvency Committee (2010-2014). He had used his deep understanding of science and technology integrated in the legal matters. With his vast experience from the mega-litigations between conglomerates to the corporate and personal dispute resolutions of the mid-size, start-up companies and the personnel thereof, Byung-Joo Lee is ready to help and assist the legal trouble, hardship, and agonies which the start-up and developing companies face unexpectedly and inevitably as their business start, grow and strive. Byung-Joo Lee also has served publicly as the former Vice President of the Korean Bar Association (2011-2012) and the present President of the Christian Lawyers’ Fellowship in Korea. Recently, he is acting as the lead-lawyer for the Climate Change Litigation filed by the Korean youth generation (Youth4ClimateAction) before the Korean Constitutional Court.
Experience
- 1996-2013
Partner, SHIN & KIM, Korea
- 2011-2012
Vice President (Planning), Korean Bar Association
- 2012-2014
Board Member of the Seoul International Dispute Resolution Center (SIDRC)
- 2010-2014
Chair, the Insolvency Committee of the Inter-Pacific Bar Association
- 2014-Present
Secretary General, President, Christian Lawyers’ Fellowship (CLF), Korea
- 2013-2018
Partner, Somyeong Law Firm
- 2018-2020
Partner, S&L Partners
- 2021-present
Partner, D’LIGHT Law Group
Education
- 2001
Harvard Law School, LL.M.
- 1997
Seoul National University, Physics, B.S.
- 1996
Judicial Research and Training Institute of the Supreme Court of Korea
Qualifications
- 1996
Admitted to the Korean Bar
- 1999
Admitted to the Patent Bar, Korea
- 2003
Admitted to the Californian Bar
Languages
Korean and English