When Dee graduated from college he served as a Corporate Internal Auditor for Amsouth Banc Corporation from 1985-86. Dee then entered law school where he was chosen to study "Comparative International Law" at the University Hiedelberg in Hiedelberg, Germany in 1988.
Upon graduation from law school, Dee served as a law clerk to the Honorable John M. Patterson, Judge of the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals from 1989-90. Dee was then asked to serve as a Staff Attorney for the Alabama Supreme Court under Justice Henry Steagall from 1990-91.
Dee joined the firm in 1991 and has been a pioneer of consumer fraud litigation nationwide.
He has demonstrated great leadership resulting in the firm's numerous record setting verdicts for clients in the area of consumer fraud. In addition to representing clients in consumer fraud litigation, Dee manages the Consumer Fraud Section of the firm. He is involved in every case being litigated in this section and on a national level, is currently serving as lead counsel, representing the State of Alabama against 73 pharmaceutical companies in State of Alabama v. Abbott Labs, Inc., and as co-lead counsel for the plaintiffs in the State of Mississippi v. Abbott Labs, Inc., 85 companies, State of South Carolina v. Abbott Labs, Inc., 18 companies, State of Hawaii v. Abbott Labs, Inc., 44 companies, State of Alaska v. Abbott Labs, Inc., 40 companies and the State of Utah v. Abbott Labs, Inc., numerous companies. American, General race-based premium multi-district litigation currently pending in Columbia, South Carolina, and is also Co-lead counsel in the GenRe Market Conduct MDL currently pending in the United States District Court for the Western Division of Tennessee, located in Memphis, Tennessee and also lead class counsel in the recently settled class action of Robertson v. Liberty National Life Insurance Company and Gadson v. American Medical Security Insurance Company.
Dee has recently involved the firm in cases on a national level with specific attention to the states of Mississippi, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee, West Virginia, New York, New Jersey, Hawaii, Alaska, Utah, Kansas, Pennsylvania, and Indiana. The majority of the Consumer Fraud lawyers are licensed in two or more states. Dee has served as lead and co-lead counsel in numerous cases resulting in multi-million dollar verdicts, including Barron v. Alfa, $15 million jury verdict, Wooten v. Horace Mann Ins. Company, $12.4 million verdict, Spann v. Life of Georgia, $2.1 million jury verdict. Dee recently received a $1.9 million verdict in a vanishing premium insurance fraud case against Alfa Ins. Co. and in a separate Alfa case, Hudson v. Alfa , a jury returned a $500,000 verdict in a consumer fraud case. Both verdicts were the largest insurance fraud verdicts in the history of Montgomery and Escambia Counties.
Dee has settled thousands of cases for clients over the years with our firm with settlement value approaching $1 billion. He has in the past and is currently spearheading national global settlements for state attorneys general as well as individual plaintiffs against this country’s top Fortune 500 companies. Nearly all of these settlements involved confidentiality and cannot be discussed publicly, but Dee’s leadership in the consumer fraud and commercial litigation area of law is unprecedented.
Dee is a regular guest speaker at national, regional and state seminars, and he has authored numerous publications on consumer fraud litigation. He server as counsel to state attorney generals all over this country on civil litigation matters, particularly pharmaceutical pricing issue with the states.
Dee was recently appointed to Lt. Col. of the Holy Sepulchre of the Roman Catholic Church. Dee was also selected as one of the Top 100 Trial Lawyers in America by the American Trial Lawyers Association.
Dee is presently a Sustaining Member and a member of the Executive Committee for the Alabama Association of Justice and past American Association of Justice and President of the Montgomery Trial Lawyers Association. Dee is also an active member of the Trial Lawyers for Public Justice. In the recent past, Dee and the firm were named "Boss of the Year" by the Montgomery Association of Legal Secretaries.
Dee is from Homewood, Alabama, where he met his wife, the former Sandra Turnblad, while attending high school. The two later married after they both graduated from college. Sandra and Dee have four children, two girls and two boys. They are active members of The Holy Spirit Catholic Church in Montgomery. The Roman Catholic Church recently honored Dee and Sandra by inducting them into the Equestrian order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem. The Order is responsible for promoting christianity within the Middle East and protecting the holy shrines in that region of the world.
Dee is also a volunteer for the Montgomery County YMCA and he has coached several soccer teams. He has regularly raised funds for the Boy Scouts of America, Father Walters Home for the needy, Montgomery Catholic Schools and several other charitable organizations. Dee also serves on the Advisory Board of the Cumberland School of Law, Sanford University.