When Dee graduated from college he served as a Corporate Internal Auditor for Amsouth Banc Corporation (now "Regions Bank") 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 not only been a pioneer of consumer fraud and commercial litigation nationwide, he has demonstrated great leadership resulting in the firm's numerous record-setting verdicts for clients in many areas of law. In addition to representing clients in litigation, Dee manages the entire Consumer Fraud / Commercial Litigation Section of the firm. He is involved in every case being litigated in this section and on a national level. American General race-based premium multi-district litigation 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. Dee was 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 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 / Commercial Litigation 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; Knox v. Alfa, $1.9 million verdict; Sewell v. Alfa, $850,000 verdict; and Hudson v. Alfa, $500,000 verdict.

Dee has settled thousands of cases for clients over the years 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. Most of these settlements involve confidentiality and cannot be discussed publicly, but Dee’s leadership in the consumer fraud / commercial litigation areas 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 and commercial litigation. He serves as counsel to state Attorneys General all over this country on civil litigation matters, particularly pharmaceutical pricing issues.

Dee has recently been named as one of the Top 100 Trial Lawyers in America by the American Trial Lawyers Association. He is presently a Sustaining Member and Executive Committee member for the Alabama Association for Justice and past 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 has been selected to Alabama Super Lawyers 2009.

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 has 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 was recently promoted to Lt. Col. of that charitable organization.

Dee is also a volunteer for the Montgomery County YMCA and he has coached several sports 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 has also been appointed by Dean John Carroll of the Cumberland School of Law, Samford University, to serve on the Advisory Board of the law school in an effort to promote and preserve Cumberland's committment to "seek wisdom to temper justice with compassion."