Clement Lee is the Co-Director of the Sex Workers Project at the Urban Justice Center. With over 14 years of experience in immigration law, he has particular expertise on cases with LGBTQ+ asylum seeker clients who have survived violent forms of persecution on account of their sexual orientation and gender identity. He also has extensive experience with removal defense and affirmative immigration applications for individuals with complex criminal histories. His practice includes defensive and affirmative cases (e.g., T visas, asylum, withholding of removal, CAT, detention and bond hearings, DACA, SIJS, BIA appeals, naturalization, marriage-based adjustment and other AOS cases).

Clement  has given Continuing Legal Education Seminars on LGBTQ asylum related issues for the American Immigration Lawyers Association. He has supervised attorneys, DOJ accredited representatives, law student interns, and volunteers at the Sex Workers Project, Central American Refugee Center, Make the Road New York, and Immigration Equality. He has supervised Columbia Law students from the Sexuality and Gender clinic on detained asylum/withholding/CAT cases, appeals before the Board of Immigration Appeals, and naturalization cases. In the past few years, he has guest lectured on culturally competent client counseling at Harvard Law School, Columbia Law School, New York University School of Law, and Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law.  His language knowledge includes English, Spanish, Cantonese Mandarin, French, Russian, and Portuguese. He was the 2016 Recipient of the LGBT Bar Association’s “Best 40 LGBT Lawyers Under 40” Award and the 2023 Recipient of the Arthur S. Leonard Award from the LGBTQ Rights Committee of the New York City Bar Association.

In his work, Clement advocates for the rights of LGBT communities who have been persecuted on account of their sexual orientation or gender identity, or who have been trafficked, and other individuals whose undocumented status has pushed them to the fringes of the formal economy.