Joshua Lee

Proven Verdicts
Houston, TX

About Joshua Lee

Joshua Lee is a founding Partner of Armstrong Lee & Baker LLP in Houston, where he heads the firm's law department, developing legal strategy and handling high-stakes motions and appeals. He co-founded the firm to represent injury victims and their families in catastrophic personal injury and complex litigation matters.

Joshua earned his Bachelor of Arts in Rhetoric and Writing from the University of Texas at Austin and his Juris Doctor from New York University School of Law, where he served as Managing Editor of the N.Y.U. Journal of Legislation and Public Policy. He began his career at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP on Wall Street before returning to Texas, where he later practiced at Beck Redden LLP.

Joshua is admitted to the bars of Texas and New York as well as multiple federal courts including the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and district courts in Texas and New York. He has been named a Lawdragon 500 Leading Plaintiff Consumer Lawyer (2026), a Super Lawyer (2026), a Super Lawyers Rising Star (2020-2025), and one of the Top 100 Rising Stars in Texas. He received the Best Lawyer Under 40 Award from the Asian Pacific Interest Section of the State Bar of Texas and was elected a Sustaining Life Fellow of the Texas Bar Foundation. He serves as Chair of the Asian American Bar Association of Houston.

Proven verdicts and settlements

$4.5 millionVerdict

A Texas appeals court affirmed a $4.5 million jury award for Jerry Thomas, an East Texas man who lost his hand at a sawmill in Rusk, holding that the owner never established an employment relationship and could not invoke the workers' compensation exclusive-remedy defense.

Texas Twelfth Court of Appeals (Tyler); trial court: 2nd District Court, Cherokee County · 2026Workplace InjuryRead the full story →
Verdict

Armstrong Lee & Baker won reversal of a federal preemption dismissal, reviving negligence claims brought by the family of a Tyson Foods meatpacking worker who died of COVID-19 after a coworker with a known positive test continued coming to work.

U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit · 2025Wrongful DeathRead the full story →

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Practice areas

Education

New York University School of Law
Rhetoric and Writing
University of Texas at Austin
Undergraduate

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Texas
State Bar of New York
State Bar of U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals
State Bar of U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas
State Bar of U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas
State Bar of U.S. District Court, Western District of Texas
State Bar of U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York
State Bar of U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York
Asian American Bar Association of Houston (Chair)
Asian American Bar Foundation of Houston (Trustee)
Federal Bar Association
Houston Bar Association
Houston Trial Lawyers Association
Houston Young Lawyers Association
Texas Trial Lawyers Association

Awards & recognition

Lawdragon 500 Leading Plaintiff Consumer Lawyers (2026)
Super Lawyer (2026)
Super Lawyers Rising Star (2020-2025)
Top 100 Rising Stars in Texas
Best Lawyer Under 40 - APIS, State Bar of Texas
Sustaining Life Fellow - Texas Bar Foundation

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$812 Million Verdict for Family of Worker Killed in Pecos Chemical Plant Explosion, Part of $1.6 Billion

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.