San Diego Divorce Lawyers

Principal and Senior Counsel

Kenneth Lee earned his Bachelor of Science degree from California State University, Los Angeles in 1993 and was awarded his Juris Doctor degree from Whittier College School of Law in 1996.  Upon completion of law school and admission to the California State Bar in 1997, Kenneth was commissioned as an Officer in the United States Marine Corps and served as a Judge Advocate, where he completed tours of duty at numerous duty stations to include Camp Pendleton, California, Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, California, Okinawa, Japan.  Kenneth served as a prosecutor with a 99% conviction rate, and also as a defense counsel, defending over 250 Marines and Sailors at courts-martial.  While serving as a defense counsel in Okinawa, Japan, Kenneth was named the Defense Counsel of the Year for 2001.  In his roles as a prosecutor and defense counsel, Kenneth tried nearly 30 courts-martial to verdict with consistently favorable results for his clients.

Kenneth also deployed to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom, and deployed twice to the Al Anbar Province of Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, where he served first with the 13^th Marine Expeditionary Unit, Battalion Landing Team, 2^nd Battalion, 1^st Marines, and subsequently with 1^st Battalion, 7^th Marines, Regimental Combat Team 7.  Since completion of active duty in 2007, Kenneth served as a plaintiffs’ trial attorney in products liability cases, where he represented individuals who had been harmed by the effects of asbestos and obtained several favorable judgments for his clients.  He also represented numerous service members at Courts-Martial, Article 32 hearings, administrative separation proceedings,  as well matters involving security clearances, the  Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (SCRA), Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Act (USERRA), and General Civil Litigation.  Kenneth recently retired from the U.S. Marine Corps Reserves at the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.  He is now a part of the Schweitzer Law Group where his focuses his practice on Family Law.

Certified Legal Specialist and Of Counsel

Certified family law specialist and military reservist attorney John H. Schweitzer is a graduate of Thomas Jefferson School of Law. Schweitzer spent five years on active duty with the United States Marine Corps as an officer in charge of legal assistance and served in both Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom. He is currently a major in the Marine Corps Reserves. Schweitzer specializes in all areas of family law, as well as military issues particularly in the areas of interstate and international jurisdiction and security clearances (PCLs and FCLs).

With a successful track record that spans nearly two decades, Schweitzer has served the Superior Court of California as assignable Judge Pro Tempore in the Family Support Division (which includes the Department of Child Support Services) and held the positions of chair and vice-chair for the San Diego County Bar Association’s Family Law Section and Military Law Committee. Schweitzer is a frequent seminar presenter on family and military issues for the local bar and bench and has been a featured expert on NBC San Diego.