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Lee A. Peifer

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Lee Peifer represents companies, individuals, schools and governmental entities in commercial and education litigation.

He advises clients across a variety of industries on matters including breaches of contract, business torts, corporate governance, post-closing disputes, antitrust issues, school funding and constitutional law. Lee has handled cases in state and federal courts and has represented clients in arbitration, at trial and on appeal. He has also defended clients in consumer, employment and education class actions, as well as in multidistrict litigation.

Lee joined Eversheds Sutherland after clerking for the Honorable Phyllis A. Kravitch of the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. During law school, he served on the managing board of the Virginia Law Review, received awards for winning and delivering the best oral argument in the 80th Annual William Minor Lile Moot Court Competition, and participated in the University of Virginia’s Supreme Court Litigation Clinic.

  • Lead counsel for the Florida Senate, House of Representatives and State Board of Education in a constitutional challenge to Florida's $19 billion K-12 public school funding system. After a four-week trial, the court entered judgment in favor of the State. Affirmed by the Florida Supreme Court after ten years of litigation
  • Representing defendant in numerous antitrust class actions consolidated for multidistrict litigation related to crop-protection products.
  • Corporate Secretary's Answer Book, Updated Annually, Aspen Publishers
  • selected for inclusion in Georgia Super Lawyers “Rising Stars” (2023-2024)
  • recognized as a Thomson Reuters Stand-out Lawyer (2021-2023), an independent, client-driven recognition
  • named to The Best Lawyers in America in the area of commercial litigation (2022-2024)
  • recognized as a stand-out lawyer by Acritas Stars: Independently Rated Lawyers (2018-2020)
  • Member-at-Large, Litigation Section, Atlanta Bar Association
  • Member, Atlanta Chapter, Federal Bar Association
  • Member, Scribes: The American Society of Legal Writers
  • Member, American Bar Association
  • Past Member and Corporate Secretary, Board of Directors, Men Stopping Violence
  • Past Member, Young Professionals Board, Meals on Wheels Atlanta
  • Georgia
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
  • U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia
  • U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

Honorable Phyllis A. Kravitch, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

  • B.A., summa cum laude, Rice University
  • J.D., University of Virginia School of Law,

    Articles Editor, Virginia Law Review, Order of the Coif

Lee Peifer

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Lee Peifer

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