Editing Rex E. Lee (section)

==Early legal career and academia==
After law school, Lee served as a [[law clerk]] for U.S. Supreme Court justice [[Byron White]] from 1963 to 1964.<ref name="post">{{cite news |last1=Malnic |first1=Eric |title=Rex E. Lee Dies |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1996/03/13/rex-e-lee-dies/de3c64ba-10af-4ec1-a1ee-dbb2469fb4c8/ |access-date=April 16, 2019 |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=March 13, 1996}}</ref> He then entered private practice at the law firm of Jennings, Strouss & Salmon in [[Phoenix, Arizona]].<ref name="lex">{{cite journal |last1=Oaks |first1=Dallin H. |last2=Voros, Jr. |first2=J. Frederic |title=Rex et Lex: A Look at Rex E. Lee |journal=The Law School Record |date=Fall 1981 |volume=27 |pages=38–39 |publisher=The University of Chicago Law School}}</ref> Only four years after graduating from law school, Lee argued his first case before the U.S. Supreme Court, despite the fact that he had not yet led any depositions in a lower civil court.<ref name="wilkins">{{cite news |last1=Wilkins |first1=Richard |title=In Memoriam: Rex E. Lee |url=http://www.jrcls.org/clark_memo/issues/cmS96.pdf |access-date=April 16, 2019 |work=Clark Memorandum |publisher=J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University |date=Spring 1996}}</ref>

In 1972, Lee left private practice to become the founding dean of BYU's JRCLS,<ref name=thrvfy>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=wqZSAAAAIBAJ&sjid=LX8DAAAAIBAJ&pg=7199%2C4214381 |work=Deseret News |location=(Salt Lake City, Utah) |last=Rea |first=Dorothy O.|title=BYU law school thriving at end of first year |date=May 16, 1974 |page=B5}}</ref> and is considered personally responsible for recruiting many members of its charter class.<ref name="Memoriam">Wilkins, Richard. [http://www.jrcls.org/publications/clark_memo/issues/cmS96.pdf ''In Memoriam: Rex E. Lee'', Clark Memorandum, (Spring 1996) p. 4] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131021194728/http://www.jrcls.org/publications/clark_memo/issues/cmS96.pdf |date=2013-10-21 }} retrieved 2012-05-11</ref><ref>[http://timpanogos.wordpress.com/2010/05/08/warning-claxons-from-utah-bob-bennett-voted-out/ ''Warning Claxons from Utah: Bob Bennett Voted Out'', Millard Fillmore's Bathtub, May 9, 2010 Update]; retrieved 2012-09-13</ref>