Brian Lee

A foreclosure sale date. A garnishment that already hit your paycheck. A debt lawsuit you just got served with. Those are the three calls I get most.

I'm Brian Lee. I have practiced law in the DC region since 2004 and built Lee Legal in 2008 around one thing: getting people out from under debt they cannot pay.

I file Chapter 7, Chapter 13, and Chapter 11 in the U.S. Bankruptcy Courts for the District of Columbia, the District of Maryland in Greenbelt, and the Eastern District of Virginia in Alexandria. I know the local rules, the trustees, and the judges in all three.

Chapter 7 wipes out credit cards, medical bills, and personal loans, usually in about four months. Chapter 13 stops a foreclosure sale and lets you cure mortgage arrears over three to five years while you keep the house. Chapter 11 gives a business room to reorganize and keep its doors open.

Not everyone should file. Sometimes the right answer is a settlement, a loan modification, or defending the collection suit on the merits. I will run your actual numbers and tell you which one fits, even when the answer is that you do not need me.

Before Lee Legal I worked with the Special Litigation Section of the Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice, and trained with the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia and the U.S. Court of Federal Claims. I am admitted to the U.S. Supreme Court, the Fourth Circuit, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Virginia, and the bankruptcy courts of DC, Maryland, and Eastern Virginia. AV Preeminent rated by Martindale-Hubbell since 2020.

B.A. in History from Rutgers. J.D. from George Mason University School of Law (now Antonin Scalia Law School). Member of the National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys (DC State Chair, 2014 to 2016), the American Bankruptcy Institute, and the Northern Virginia Bankruptcy Bar.

The consultation is free and confidential. Call (202) 448-5136. Don't wait for the sale date.