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Thomas Lee of Hughes, Hubbard & Reed, a law professor at Fordham Law School in New York, explains the U.S law of personal jurisdiction, particularly as it applies to lawsuits against foreign companies in U.S. state and federal courts. He describes key past U.S Supreme Court decisions involving foreign corporate defendants. He then explains how a June 2023 Supreme Court authorizes lawsuits against foreign companies doing business in U.S states with corporate-registration laws, even when those lawsuits allege claims without any connection to the relevant state and happening anywhere in the world.
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Thomas Lee of Hughes, Hubbard & Reed, a law professor at Fordham Law School in New York, explains the U.S law of personal jurisdiction, particularly as it applies to lawsuits against foreign companies in U.S. state and federal courts. He describes key past U.S Supreme Court decisions involving foreign corporate defendants. He then explains how a June 2023 Supreme Court authorizes lawsuits against foreign companies doing business in U.S states with corporate-registration laws, even when those lawsuits allege claims without any connection to the relevant state and happening anywhere in the world.
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Special Counsel Thomas H. Lee

Thomas H. Lee is Special Counsel in Hughes Hubbard & Reed’s New York office and the Leitner Family Professor of International Law at Fordham Law School. He has litigated petitions, appeals and dispositive motions in the U.S. Supreme Court, other federal courts, and New York state courts; advised U.S. and other non-Korean companies on doing business and investing in Korea; advised the U.S. and foreign governments on international law; has expertise and experience in international commercial and investor-state arbitration; and has litigated and advised private and government clients on data protection and cyberlaw. He has written dozens of articles about international law, U.S. foreign relations law, constitutional law, and federal courts. He has also been a visiting law professor at Columbia, Harvard, and the University of Virginia; U.S. law adviser to the Constitutional Court of Korea; and Special Counsel to the General Counsel of the U.S. Department of Defense, for which he received the Secretary of Defense Medal for Exceptional Public Service. Before joining the firm, he served as a law clerk to Justice David Souter of the U.S. Supreme Court and to Judge Michael Boudin of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, and as a U.S. naval cryptology officer deployed in the Western Pacific Ocean and ashore in Korea and Japan and with the National Security Agency.
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