Mr. Lee uses his gifts in communication and presentation to represent parties in automobile, trucking accident cases, premises liability matters, recreational sport injury, motorcycle and bike accidents, and products liability matters. With an extensive background as an insurance defense counsel, he has litigated or tried catastrophic injury, serious personal injury and wrong death cases Santa Clara County, San Mateo County, San Francisco County, Alameda County, Contra Costa County, Napa County, Sonoma County, Santa Cruz County, Monterey County, Sacramento County, Stanislaus County, Solano County, San Benito County and Tuolumne County. He has completed over fifty jury trials. Aside from trial work, he has mediated and settled many more cases with an eye toward rapid evaluation and resolution. He has also litigated and arbitrated to a decision difficult Uninsured Motorist and Underinsured Motorist matters.

Mr. Lee has written for California Lawyer Magazine in the expert advice column on the subject of depositions. He has written a series of articles for Defense Comment Magazine on the subject of reasonable medical expenses in tort cases. Mr. Lee has served as a court appointed arbitrator for the Santa Clara County Superior Court. He has participated and assisted for a number of years in trial related teaching programs at Stanford Law School, the University of San Francisco Law School and has given the representative defense final argument at the University of Santa Clara School of Law during its trial advocacy program. He has been a featured speaker in Santa Clara County Bar Association continuing education programs in the areas of deposition skills and final argument. His significant cases include the landmark assumption of risk case of Ford v. Gouin (1992) 3 Cal.4th 339, which he successfully argued before the California Supreme Court. His trials have featured creative arguments and computer enhanced presentations. He has also volunteered his time to assist high school mock trial teams and has acted as a judge during the latter stages of County-wide competition. Most recently, he was a featured speaker at the Association of Defense Counsel Annual Meeting on the subject of proof of medical special damages.


Born in Long Beach, California, on July 22, 1954, Jonathan was admitted to the Bar in 1979. Prior to admission, he attended Long Beach Poly High School, then Pepperdine University, where he obtained a B.S. in Business Administration in 1976. He then attended Pepperdine School of Law, receiving a J.D. in 1979. He was immediately hired as a Deputy District Attorney for the County of Tulare, where he served from 1979 through 1981. One of his trial victories during that time concerned the conviction of two people for hit and run driving the same car.

He then joined the Law Firm of Robinson & Wood, and became a member of the firm in 1987. Now a senior shareholder, Jonathan is a member of the Association of Defense Counsel of Northern California, the Defense Research Institute, the California State Bar and the Santa Clara Bar Association.