Katrina Lee, B.A., J.D.

Education

• BA, University of California, Berkeley, 1994
• JD, University of California, Berkeley, 1997

Biography

Katrina Lee is the John C. Elam/Vorys Sater Professor in Law and the Director of the College’s Program on Dispute Resolution. She received the Morgan E. Shipman Outstanding Professor Award from the Classes of 2025, 2024, and 2022. In 2024, she was honored with The Ohio State University Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching. Professor Lee writes and presents on topics related to the business of law, negotiations, legal ethics, and legal writing. Professor Lee teaches the Business of Law, Legal Analysis and Writing 1 and 2, Legal Negotiation, LL.M. Legal Writing, The Lawyer as Negotiator, and Business Negotiations in a Global Environment.

An accomplished scholar, Professor Lee is the author of the first-of-its-kind business of law coursebook The Legal Career: Knowing the Business, Thriving in Practice, and co-author of the third edition of the legal writing coursebook The U.S. Guide to Legal Analysis and Writing. Her work has appeared in journals including Denver Law Review, Nevada Law Journal, the Ohio State Journal on Dispute Resolution, and Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law. She is also the principal investigator on a project funded by a grant from the American Arbitration Association-International Centre for Dispute Resolution Foundation. 

Professor Lee joined the faculty at Moritz in 2011 after a career in complex litigation spanning more than 12 years. She has represented Fortune 100 companies in all litigation phases, including discovery, trial, appeal, and dispute resolution proceedings. At a national law firm, she was elevated to equity partner in her seventh year of practice. 

Professor Lee serves as Chair of the Association of American Law Schools Alternative Dispute Resolution Section and a member of the American Bar Association Competitions Committee (Negotiations Subcommittee). She is a former President of the Association of Legal Writing Directors. She is a board member of the Asian Pacific American Bar Association of Central Ohio and Chair of its Mentorship Committee. In addition, Professor Lee served as Chair of the President and Provost’s Council on Women at Ohio State until June 27, 2025.