Morgan Chu
| Morgan Chu | |
|---|---|
| Born | December 27, 1950 |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Harvard Law School |
| Occupation | Patent lawyer |
| Employer | Irell & Manella |
Morgan Chu (born December 27, 1950), an intellectual property attorney, is one of the first Asian Americans to lead a major U.S. law firm. Chu's professional accolades recognize him as one of the nation’s most influential lawyers and most successful trial attorneys.
A high school dropout, Chu went on to earn advanced degrees from Harvard, Yale and UCLA. In 2007, UCLA awarded Chu the UCLA Medal, the university’s highest accolade for exceptional achievement, citing Chu’s "groundbreaking approach to intellectual property" and honoring him as a founder of the Asian American Studies Center.
Chu was named The Outstanding Intellectual Property Lawyer in the United States in the first Chambers Award for Excellence, 2006. Chambers has described Chu as "beyond doubt the most gifted trial lawyer in the USA."
Chu served as the co-managing partner of the firm Irell & Manella LLP from 1997–2003, and has been a member of its governing board, the Executive Committee, since 1985. In June 2009, Harvard alumni elected Chu to a six-year term as a member of the Harvard Board of Overseers.
Chu’s Chinese name (Traditional Chinese: 朱欽文; Simplified Chinese: 朱钦文; Pinyin: Zhū Qīn-Wén) means to be respectful of education and culture and his family is one of scholars. His father, Ju-Chin Chu, left China in 1943 to study chemical engineering, earning a doctorate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and he later taught at Washington University in St. Louis and at Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute. Chu's mother Ching Chen Li, also left China during World War II to study economics at MIT. His parents married in 1945 and began a family. Chu is the youngest of three brothers. His oldest brother, Gilbert Chu, holds an M.D. and a Ph.D, and is a professor of biochemistry and medicine at Stanford University. The middle brother, Steven Chu, was a professor of physics at Stanford and later a professor of physics and molecular and cellular biology at University of California, Berkeley, and the director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Steven Chu was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1997 and was President Obama's Secretary of Energy from January 21, 2009 to April 22, 2013.
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