Lee Applebaum is a partner in the firm's litigation group, focusing his work on business and commercial litigation matters, as well as insurance coverage and bad faith cases. His practice encompasses trial level and appellate work in the federal and state courts and includes extensive experience in private commercial arbitrations, mediations, and settlement negotiations. He has argued his clients' cases before the Supreme Courts of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and the United States Third Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Mr. Applebaum was recognized among his peers for the fourth year in a row as a "Super Lawyer" for his expertise in Business Litigation, and has long received Martindale Hubbell's AV rating.

Mr. Applebaum has been involved in a wide variety of disputes involving real estate, the Uniform Commercial Code, business torts, contract actions, securities law claims, employment disputes concerning wrongful termination and restrictive covenants, insurance coverage and defense matters, and has litigated, written and spoken extensively on civil RICO.

Mr. Applebaum places a premium on serving his clients with full dedication. “It is for our clients that we practice law in the first place.” He has written on the high level of professionalism expected of attorneys in their relationships to clients, the courts and to other attorneys. Some of these articles can be found on the Publications page of our web site.

Mr. Applebaum is Vice Chair of the Philadelphia Bar Association’s Business Law Section. He is the past Chair of the Section’s Business Litigation Committee, which was twice named Committee of the Year under his leadership. Mr. Applebaum also is currently Co-Chair of the American Bar Association's Subcommittee on Business Courts, a subject on which he is a national authority, having written numerous articles, consulted on the creation of business courts, and spoken extensively on the subject to legislators, judges and lawyers across the country. He is among only a few lawyers to be named an honorary charter member of the American College of Business Court Judges. He is the coordinator of the Commerce Case Management Program Opinion Project, working with lawyers and regional law schools in Philadelphia and New Jersey, and is an advisor to the University of Maryland School of Law’s Journal of Business and Technology Law.