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Lee Pressman (1906–1969), born Leon Pressman in New York City, was a 20th-Century American lawyer. He served as Federal attorney during the New Deal in the 1930s. He then served as general counsel of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) from 1936 to 1948 and helped achieve many of the CIO's early major victories for its member labor unions. In early 1948, he resigned to support the Progressive Party as well as run for congressional of a Brooklyn district as a member of the American Labor Party. In August 1948, Whittaker Chambers named Pressman as a member of the Ware Group Soviet spy network that he had run in the 1930s.

In his union capacity, Pressman's name appears frequently in legal cases cited on Wikisource.

See detailed Wikipedia entry on Lee Pressman.