Hugh Lee
Director, Elder Law Clinic
205-348-4960
hlee@law.ua.edu
Areas of Expertise:
Elder Law
Capital Punishment
Election Law
Hugh Lee
Hugh Lee currently serves as the director of the Elder Law Clinic programs. He holds a B.A. (history/music) from Davidson College and a J.D. from the Florida State University College of Law. While in law school, Mr. Lee served as a Public Service Fellow and clerked for the federal death penalty resource center. Prior to joining the University of Alabama School of Law, Mr. Lee worked as litigator for the Legal Services Corporation of Alabama, where he handled cases in the consumer law, domestic relations, housing law, civil rights, employment law and bankruptcy areas. Since joining the law school, he has supervised student research in the Alabama Lawyers Research Service program, has taught housing law, legal writing, moot court and in the summer academic support program and has most recently taught the Civil Clinic and Elder Law Clinic course components. Mr. Lee has published articles in the areas of consumer fraud, domestic relations and election law and has delivered CLE lectures on legal research methods. He is a member of the American Inns of Court, American Bar Association, Alabama State Bar Association and Tuscaloosa County Bar Association, and was awarded the State Bar Association's Statewide Pro Bono Award in 1998.
Of particular interest, Mr. Lee served on the legal team representing the plaintiff in Taylor v. Martin County Canvassing Board, one of the absentee ballot cases in which the 2000 Florida Presidential Election was contested.