Steven R. Yee: Yee & Belilove, LLP

Steven R. Yee
Steven R. Yee is the firm’s founding and managing partner.

Mr. Yee has extensive trial and litigation experience in professional liability, legal malpractice, personal injury, employment practices liability, insurance coverage, products liability, premises liability, public entity, landlord/tenant, and business litigation actions.

Mr. Yee’s professional liability practice has an emphasis in legal malpractice. He has represented over 400 law firms and lawyers in legal malpractice, malicious prosecution, fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, and breach of contract (fee dispute) actions.

Mr. Yee’s article regarding California Anti-Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (“SLAPP”) statute and malicious prosecution was featured on the cover of the December 2002 issue of Los Angeles Lawyer. Mr. Yee’s article regarding malicious prosecution actions was also featured in the American Bar Association’s April 2003 Lawyers Professional Liability Advisory.

Mr. Yee was honored to serve as a panelist for the plenary sessions of the American Bar Association National Legal Malpractice Conference in April 2002 and the American Bar Association’s National Institute on Mediation in December 2002 and as a presenter at the American Bar Association National Legal Malpractice Conference in April 2004. Mr. Yee has also presented a paper for the American Bar Association Standing Committee on Lawyers’ Professional Liability regarding the best practices for a defense lawyer in legal malpractice actions.

Mr. Yee has given MCLE-accredited seminars for the American Bar Association, insurance companies, the Pasadena Bar Association, the Glendale Bar Association, and the Marina Culver Bar Association regarding professional liability, legal malpractice, settlement negotiations, legal ethics, discovery, insurance coverage litigation, malicious prosecution, and the SLAPP statute. He has also conducted sexual harassment seminars for companies in compliance with California Government Code §12950.1(a).

Mr. Yee has also been designated and has testified as an expert witness in professional liability actions. Mr. Yee has been appointed by the Los Angeles Superior Court as a mediator in professional liability cases. He has also been retained by insurance companies to conduct risk management seminars for law firms and to audit attorney billing statements.

Mr. Yee is admitted to practice before all California State Courts and the Central District of the United States District Court. He received his Juris Doctor from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. He also earned two Bachelor of Arts degrees, cum laude, from the University of California at Irvine.

Mr. Yee is currently serving on the Board of Trustees for the Pasadena Bar Association.