Meet Our Team

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Eric Lee

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 (Dep’t 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. Eric’s work has been featured in CNN, the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, ABC, CBS, NBC, Al Jazeera, France 24, Newsweek, NPR, Telemundo, Univision and others. He is licensed to practice law in the State of Michigan and speaks Spanish.

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Chris Godshall-Bennett

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. His work has been featured in CNN, NPR, CBS, NBC, The Jerusalem Post, The Middle East Eye, and more. Chris 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.

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