Kenneth David Lee

Litigation Attorney and Executive Committee Chair at McKeen & Associates, PC
Detroit, MIAdmitted 2012

About Kenneth David Lee

Kenneth Lee is a trial attorney and Chair of the Executive Committee at McKeen & Associates. Since joining the firm in early 2015, Kenneth has earned over $70 million in settlements across a wide range of medical malpractice and personal injury cases. He has also won numerous jury trials on behalf of injured clients, including an $11 million trial verdict in September 2023 on behalf of a woman injured during a total thyroidectomy surgery.

He was invited to join the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA) in October 2024. He has been recognized as a Super Lawyers Rising Star from 2018 to 2022, a Super Lawyer in 2023 and 2024, a 2018 National Trial Lawyers Top 40 Under 40, and a National Academy of Personal Injury Attorneys Top 10 Personal Injury Attorneys Under 40 in Michigan. He graduated from Saginaw Valley State University and earned his J.D. cum laude from Thomas M. Cooley Law School, Auburn Hills.

Proven verdicts and settlements at McKeen & Associates, PC

These results are credited to McKeen & Associates, PC. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.

An Oakland County jury awarded the Tran family $130,571,897 in 2018 after finding that Beaumont Hospital technicians failed to call a code blue or provide chest compressions when a two-month-old infant suffered a breath-hold spell during a renal scan, leaving him with permanent brain damage and cerebral palsy.

Oakland County Circuit Court, MI · 2018Medical MalpracticeRead the full story →

A Wayne County jury found Henry Ford Hospital negligent for a delay of over two hours in executing an ordered emergency C-section, awarding $120.9 million to a Detroit mother and her son, who was left with severe cerebral palsy and requires full-time care.

Wayne County Circuit Court, MI · 2024Medical MalpracticeRead the full story →
$96 millionVerdictTop 20 in Michigan · #7

In April 2023 a Wayne County jury awarded $96 million to the widow and mother of Jude and Zachary Attianese, a New Jersey father and son killed when a Challenger Motor Freight tractor-trailer rear-ended their car in an I-75 construction zone in 2018. The company had acknowledged responsibility, so the trial addressed damages. The driver was taking medications for Parkinson's disease, and the company had known of his diagnosis since 2015.

Wayne County Circuit Court, Detroit, Michigan · 2023Truck AccidentsRead the full story →

A Wayne County, Michigan jury awarded roughly $55.5 million, among the largest medical malpractice verdicts in the state at the time, against Henry Ford Health System after an emergency room physician sent home a child in respiratory distress who suffered a respiratory arrest the next morning and permanent brain damage. The trial court reduced the gross award to present value and applied Michigan's statutory cap on noneconomic damages, and the Court of Appeals affirmed the judgment in 2005.

Wayne County, Michigan · 2001Medical MalpracticeRead the full story →
$8 millionSettlement

Brian McKeen of McKeen & Associates served as one of the co-lead plaintiff counsel who negotiated an $8 million civil settlement for 43 patients given medically unnecessary cancer treatment by convicted oncologist Farid Fata, approved by Oakland County Circuit Court on July 20, 2016.

Oakland County Circuit Court, MI · 2016Medical MalpracticeRead the full story →

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

Practice areas

Education

Thomas M. Cooley Law School, Auburn Hills, Michigan
J.D., 2011
Saginaw Valley State University, University Center, Michigan
Undergraduate, 2004

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Michigan, admitted 2012
State Bar of Florida, admitted 2013

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$22.6 Million Verdict for Port Trucker Left Permanently Disabled After On-the-Job Crash
Michigan Auto Law
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$3.5 million · Jackson County Jury Awards $3.5 Million to Brain-Injured Driver in Fairley v. Schiber Truck Case

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