William John Lee

William J. Lee, JD, MS, FACE, a nationally and internationally recognized public health attorney, scientist, and advocate, leads Kershaw Talley Barlow’s scientific practice group and supports its nationally recognized mass tort and class action practices. William works at the intersection of epidemiology, law, and policy, collaborating with leading experts to develop scientific and medical evidence, and performing epidemiological and biostatistical analyses as an expert himself, in support of federal and state trial, appellate, and Supreme Court litigations. William routinely serves on court-appointed scientific leadership representing hundreds of thousands of patients in national pharmaceutical, medical device, and environmental health complex litigations. In each litigation, William has played an integral role in shaping leadership's pre-trial and trial strategies regarding causation, liability, and notice. In recent years, William has employed well-controlled, frequentist and Bayesian disproportionality methods to analyze post-market adverse events, and developed new lines of causation and liability evidence, that many courts have not previously considered. For his significant and sustained contributions to the field of epidemiology and its application to the law, William has been elected a Fellow of the American College of Epidemiology (FACE), in which he serves on its Ethics and Policy Committee and as President of its Research and Education Foundation. William has been recognized by several leading national and international authorities including the National Minority Quality Forum, the Boston Congress of Public Health, America's Best in Medicine, Marquis Who's Who in America, and Emory University for utilizing the legal system to reduce patient risk and advance health equity among minoritized and underserved populations. William actively publishes his original research and maintains national-level speaking engagements in the scientific and legal communities.