Lee Byrd is a member, and the immediate past chair, of the Business & Professional Litigation group, where he devotes substantial time to handling a wide variety of business litigation relating to contracts, commercial leases, easements, insurance coverage, and legal malpractice.  Lee is often involved in shareholder, partnership, and employment disputes.  Lee serves as an arbitrator, and has substantial experience in arbitrations and mediations. 

Lee's cases include assertions of officer and director liability, breach of fiduciary duty, unfair competition, fraud, racketeering, and business conspiracy. Lee handles litigation involving intellectual property, disputed estates, wills and trusts, as well as creditors' rights and collection matters.

Lee has substantial appellate experience and has argued cases before the Supreme Court of Virginia and the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.  Lee has authored or co-authored numerous appellate briefs in these courts, both for parties and non-party amici curiae or "friends of the court."

In January 2008, and again in January 2011, Lee was elected to serve on the three-member Board of Directors, the firm's management team.  Lee is a principal contact at the firm for The Law Firm Alliance and has served on its Board of Directors since October 2007. 

In addition to his Business & Professional Litigation Practice Group duties, Lee is an active, adjunct member of the firm's Local Government Practice Group.  In that capacity, Lee has handled a variety of litigation, appellate, and administrative matters involving environmental, nuisance, land use, zoning, and municipal finance issues.

Lee has been listed six times among Virginia's "Legal Elite" in Virginia Business Magazine's annual compilation, most recently for his Civil Litigation practice. In addition, Lee has been listed among Virginia's "Super Lawyers" as a Business Litigator for the past six years.

Lee is AV® rated by Martindale Hubbell, the highest possible in their system. Martindale-Hubbell is the facilitator of a peer review rating process. Ratings reflect the anonymous opinions of members of the Bar and the Judiciary. Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review Ratings fall into two categories - legal ability and general ethical standards.

Lee is a proud native of Onancock, located on Virginia's Eastern Shore.