Est. 2025 — Washington, D.C. & Michigan
Founded to address unprecedented threats to democracy through aggressive and uncompromising legal advocacy. We are not nine-to-five attorneys.
“We are not— Lee & Godshall-Bennett LLP
‘nine to five’
attorneys.”
Lee & Godshall-Bennett was founded in 2025 to meet an unprecedented moment. The circumstances we face as a nation require lawyers with agility, imagination, and nerves of steel — attorneys prepared to fight in administrative courts, state agencies, and the United States Supreme Court.
Our experience spans every forum where rights are contested: asylum and removal defense, deportation, unlawful detention, visa denial, employment termination, and school suspension. We have faced ICE, the State Department, DHS, USCIS, governors, universities, and corporate employers — and we have fought all of them.
Clients participate in strategy and decision-making throughout. You are never a bystander in your own case. Your fight is ours, and ours is yours.
We serve clients regardless of financial means through flexible payment plans and crowdfunding guidance. Justice should not be a luxury.
We use public exposure and media connections to hold institutions accountable. As Justice Brandeis wrote: “Sunlight is the best disinfectant.” It is also the best litigation strategy.
We operate differently from traditional corporate law practices. We have fought ICE, the State Department, DHS, governors, universities, and corporate employers. We are built for this moment.
Federal Litigator
Eric Lee is a federal litigator and 2024 recipient of the American Immigration Lawyers Association's Jack Wasserman Memorial Award for Excellence in Litigation. Eric has represented high-profile clients fighting deportation, detention, visa denials, employment termination and school discipline based on free speech, association, false gang membership allegations and other unlawful pretexts. In 2024, Eric represented a Salvadoran man and his U.S. citizen wife separated by three presidential administrations, arguing the case (Dept of State v. Muñoz) before the United States Supreme Court. He is the co-founder, president and executive director of the Consular Accountability Project, a non-profit that litigates challenges to the authority of consular officers over visa denials and visa policy. He is licensed to practice law in the State of Michigan and speaks Spanish.
Civil Rights Attorney
Chris Godshall-Bennett is a civil rights attorney and longtime activist. He became a lawyer after a decade in the Jewish Palestine Solidarity Movement to defend the rights and political power of progressive movements in the face of unprecedented repression. Chris has represented victims of police brutality, students facing retaliation for their political activism, prisoners denied basic care and dignity, employees fighting workplace discrimination, and non-citizens facing detention and deportation. Chris is the former Legal Director of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, the nation's largest Arab civil rights organization. He received his B.A. in Political Science and Middle Eastern, South Asian, & African Studies from Columbia University and his J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center. He is licensed to practice law in the District of Columbia.
Immigration Attorney
Shalyn Fluharty is a Florida-based, California-barred attorney with extensive experience handling complex and high-stakes asylum and removal defense cases. She represents clients both in and out of detention, including parents fighting to reunite with their children and unaccompanied children seeking safety on their own. She previously led the Dilley Pro Bono Project in Texas and served as Executive Director of Americans for Immigrant Justice, where she oversaw a staff of approximately 100 and doubled the organization's budget to expand access to immigration representation. She later served as a Protection Officer with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Washington, D.C., where she focused on U.S. asylum reform. She is licensed to practice law in the State of California.
No matter how powerful the adversary or how tough the battle, we are ready to handle your emergency.