Helen Lee Appointed Assistant United States Attorney

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – United States Attorney Aaron L. Weisman today announced the appointment of Helen H. Lee as an Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Rhode Island.

Ms. Lee, an experienced civil litigator, joins the Office from the law firm of Latham and Watkins, where she had worked as an Associate since 2011.  Employed in the firm’s D.C., Costa Mesa, and Boston offices, she worked on a wide variety of civil litigation matters, principally in federal court. 

From 2016 to 2017, Ms. Lee temporarily left the firm to serve as law clerk to the Hon. Pamela K. Chen, United States District Judge in the Eastern District of New York, in Brooklyn. 

Ms. Lee, who grew up in San Mateo, California, is a 2005 graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and she received her law degree, also from Berkeley, in 2011.  While practicing full-time as an attorney, she also successfully completed a Ph.D. in Political Science, which was awarded by Stanford University in 2013. 

Ms. Lee has been assigned to the Office’s Civil Division, and joins the Office as part of a Department-wide initiative to continue to increase affirmative civil enforcement efforts.

In making the announcement, United States Attorney Aaron L. Weisman said, “I am tremendously pleased to welcome AUSA Lee to the Office.  Ms. Lee’s intellect, experience, and background as a litigator are consistent with the tradition of excellence in this Office, make her a superb addition to our civil practice, and will allow us to continue to expand our enforcement efforts on behalf of the people of Rhode Island.”

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