Flora Lee

Senior Associate

  • Flora Lee
  • Phone: +1 410 949 2938

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  • Duane Morris LLP
    1201 Wills Street, Suite 330
    Baltimore, MD 21231-3805
    USA

Flora Lee represents clients in complex commercial and civil litigation matters in state and federal courts as well as in mediation, arbitration, and administrative proceedings. Her practice spans a wide range of industries, including construction, real estate, automotive, technology, consumer products, health care and pharmaceuticals, and non-profit organizations, including in animal welfare.

Ms. Lee has served as first chair in bench trials, administrative hearings, appeals, and mediations. She has extensive experience handling discovery and e-Discovery and drafting dispositive motions, pleadings, and appellate briefs. She regularly counsels clients on corporate governance, fiduciary duties, shareholder disputes, employment, administrative law issues, trademark infringement, and business torts. She is also actively involved in pro bono work.

Ms. Lee is a 2019 graduate of Georgetown University Law Center and a graduate of Cornell University and the University of Pennsylvania, magna cum laude. Ms. Lee previously served as a law clerk to the Honorable Irma S. Raker of the Supreme Court of Maryland and as a judicial intern to the Honorable Reggie B. Walton of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia and the Honorable Frederick H. Weisberg of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. 

Before entering law, Ms. Lee taught and researched philosophy at Cornell University and started a consulting practice in Canada. Ms. Lee has traveled extensively and has lived in South Korea, Canada, the U.K., and the U.S.

Admissions

  • Maryland
  • Washington, D.C.
  • Virginia
  • U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland
  • U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Education

  • Georgetown University Law Center, J.D., 2019
    - Senior Case Comments Editor, Georgetown Law Technology Review
    - Exceptional Pro Bono Pledge Recognition
  • Cornell University, M.A. and Ph.D. Candidate (A.B.D.) in Philosophy, 2012
  • University of Pennsylvania, B.A., magna cum laude, 2007

Experience

  • Duane Morris LLP
    - Senior Associate, 2025-present
  • Stein Sperling Bennett De Jong Driscoll PC
    - Associate, 2020-2025
  • The Supreme Court of Maryland
    - Law Clerk to the Hon. Irma S. Raker, 2019-2020

Honors and Awards

  • Maryland Daily Record’s Leading Women Under 40, 2024
  • Super Lawyers Rising Star in Business Litigation

Professional Activities

  • Maryland State Bar Association
    - Ethics Committee
    - NextGen Bar Exam Task Force
  • Women’s Bar Association of Maryland
  • Asian Pacific American Bar Association of Maryland
    - Law School Mentorship Program
  • Bar Association of the District of Columbia
  • Women’s Bar Association of District of Columbia
  • Asian Pacific American Bar Association of District of Columbia
  • American Bar Association

Civic and Charitable Activities

  • Homeward Trails Animal Rescue, Foster Parent
  • Montgomery County Animal Services and Adoption Center, Foster Parent

  • Georgetown University Law Center, Alumni Admissions Interviewer

Selected Publications

  • Contributor, Duane Morris Animal Law Developments Blog
  • Author, “Beyond the Basics—Identifying Underexplored Categories of DEI,” Bar Association of Montgomery County: The Bar in BRIEF, Vol. 73, Iss. 2, July/August 2025