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Speaker: Bill Lann Lee, former Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Bill Lann Lee is a partner with the law firm Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein, LLP in San Francisco, California, where he chairs the firm's International/Human Rights Practice Group and co-chairs the Employment Practice Group. A Yale alumnus and Columbia Law School graduate, Bill devoted 17 years to the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund before serving in the U.S. Justice Department as Acting Assistant Attorney General from December 1997 until his appointment in August 2000 as Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights. Bill is the recipient of numerous honors and awards, such as the Pearlstein Civil Rights Award (2002), the John Randolph Distinguished Service Award (2001), and the Pioneer Award (2000). Bill and his wife, Carolyn M. Yee, have three children: Angela, Mark, and Nicholas. |