Davis G. Yee

Davis G. Yee is a federal administrative law judge.  Before that, he was a Special Trial Attorney with the Office of Chief Counsel for the IRS, where he received the IRS Commissioner's Outstanding Achievement Award for his contributions to administrative guidance.

After law school, Davis was a judicial clerk to the Honorable Charles Z. Smith of the Washington State Supreme Court, as well as an associate of a litigation firm.  He later served as an attorney-adviser to the Honorable Peter J. Panuthos of the United States Tax Court.

• Administrative Law
• Ethics and Professionalism
• Tax Law

• Administrative Law
• Ethics and Professionalism
• Tax Law

• LLM, Georgetown University
• JD, Lewis & Clark College
• BS, UC Davis

• Warren E. Burger Prize (2021), American Inns of Court (For his essay submission "Promoting Diversity as Professionalism").

• Honorable Ira A. Brown Adjunct Faculty Award (2018), USF School of Law.
• Innovation in Teaching with Technology Award (2018), USF Educational Technology Services.
• Warren E. Burger Prize (2017), American Inns of Court (For his essay submission "The Professional Responsibility of Fair Play When Dealing with a Pro Se Adversary").
• Legal Assistance Essay Contest Second Place Award (2005), ABA Standing Committee on Legal Assistance for Military Personnel.
• Bert W. Levit Essay Award (2003), ABA Standing Committee on Lawyers’ Professional Liability and Long & Levit LLP.

• “The Professional Responsibility of Fair Play When Dealing with a Pro Se Adversary,” 69 South Carolina Law Review 377 (2017).