Lee Kim is an associate and a registered patent attorney in the firm’s Intellectual Property/Technology Practice Group. Lee's transactional experience includes protecting and counseling clients in all areas of intellectual property, including copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, and patents. Her patent experience includes preparation and prosecution of domestic and foreign patent applications in the biotech, chemical, pharmaceutical, neuroscience, mechanical, and software fields. Lee's client experience includes working with individual inventors, consultants and independent contractors, small businesses, medium businesses, multi-national corporations, non-profit organizations, schools, universities, and the like.  "Lee's training includes a recent Patent Resources Group seminar on 'Crafting & Drafting Winning Patents' (2007)."

Lee earned her undergraduate degree in Chemistry from Duquesne University, and was the recipient of the Outstanding Service Award for the Department of Biological Sciences; the 1992 R.K. Mellon Research Fellowship in Neurobiology - Department of Biological Sciences, and also of the 1994 R.K. Mellon Research Fellowship in Organic Chemistry - Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. Lee completed graduate coursework in organic chemistry at the University of California at Santa Cruz , and while there, was the recipient of the GAANN Graduate Doctoral Research Fellowship. Lee has had several years of academic research experience in the areas of neurobiology, synthetic organic chemistry, and spectroscopy.

Lee also worked in the information technology ("IT") field for several years, including system, network, Oracle/SQL Server database administration, and helpdesk support. She also helped the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center establish its first filmless radiology system in 1997.

Lee earned her law degree from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, and was a copyright law research assistant for Professor Michael J. Madison. While at Pitt Law, Lee assisted the Office of Technology Management at the University of Pittsburgh with prior art searches and patentability assessments. She also clerked for The Honorable Judge Kathleen Mulligan with the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas, Family Division. As a summer associate at a major Los Angeles firm, she was the author to the 2001 update to "Trade Secrets Practice in California," published by the California Continuing Education of the Bar (Berkeley, California). In 2002, Lee received the 2002 CALI Excellence for the Future Award(R) in Advanced Intellectual Property.

Lee previously practiced with the intellectual property departments of other major firms in Pittsburgh before joining Tucker Arensberg. In 2005, Lee was an invited participant at the US Copyright Office Roundtable on the subject of orphan works at the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington, D.C. 

Lee is admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania, the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia, the United States Patent and  Trademark Office and the Federal Circuit. Lee is a member of the Allegheny County Bar Association and the American Intellectual Property Law Association.