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Thomas T. Chan
Thomas Chan, chairman and founder of Chan Law Group, has been a lawyer and mediator for more than twenty-five years. His practice focuses on: mediation, complex litigation, legal strategy, negotiation, and strategic business transactions, particularly involving intellectual property, technology, entertainment and international trade.
His precedent-setting work in intellectual property law, China trade, encryption software decontrol, and litigating against Microsoft (more than twenty cases in all) has been widely reported in all major news media around the world and in Bill Gates' biographies. He was lead counsel for the first Sino-US PC software joint venture which was reported on the front page of the Chinese People's Daily. He founded the Business Software Alliance. He has successfully represented the banker in a secured transaction funding the production of American Gun (2005) and represented the executive producer and production company in the successful production of The Mars Underground (2005).
Appointed by the U.S. Secretary of Commerce and the U.S. Trade Representative to serve on the Industry Sector Advisory Committee, he advised the U.S. on trade policy in the Reagan and Bush administrations. He served on the board of directors of the Export Managers Association of California, advisory board of the U.S. Small Business Administration's Export Small Business Development Center and the Asian Pacific American Legal Center, and Torrance Memorial Medical Center Foundation. Currently, he serves on the board of NAMWOLF.
A frequent lecturer and commentator, Mr. Chan has been widely quoted in the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, and other national newspapers and magazines, and has made frequent guest appearances on television and radio broadcasts. He has been a speaker at Boalt Hall (UC Berkeley), UCLA School of Law and Anderson School of Management, Finnish Institute for International Trade, SPA, Comdex, MacWorld International Summit, and the Computer Law Association, and was the keynote speaker at the Department of Commerce's Annual Executive Conference. He has testified in U.S. Congressional and Administrative hearings on reducing trade barriers and protecting intellectual property.
Prior to founding Chan Law Group, Mr. Chan was in-house counsel with various corporations, including general counsel of Lee Data Corporation (one of the largest 10 publicly held corporations in Minnesota
at that time.) Mr. Chan holds a Doctor of Law and Bachelor of Arts (magna cum laude) degree from the University of Wisconsin. During law school, he was
a student intern with the Honorable Shirley Abrahamson, current Chief Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court. He was trained as a mediator at the renowed California Academy of Mediation Professional and serves on the ADR panels of the Los Angeles Superior Court and INTA.
Areas of Practice:
Complex
Litigation
Legal
Strategy
Negotiation
Strategic Business Transactions
Intellectual Property
Entertainment
International Trade
Mediation and Arbitration
Bar Admissions:
California
1987
Minnesota
1983
Wisconsin
1979
Education:
University
of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, J.D., (1979).
University
of Wisconsin, Whitewater, Wisconsin, B.A., Psychology
and Mathematics. Honors: Magna Cum Laude, (1973).
Classes, Seminars Taught:
Annual
intellectual property update, SCCLA, 2000 – 2002
Speaker
at Boalt Hall (UC Berkeley), UCLA School of Law and
Anderson School of Management, Finnish Institute for
International Trade, SPA, Comdex, MacWorld International
Summit, and the Computer Law Association on
international trade and intellectual property.
Professional Associations and Memberships:
Appointed
by the U.S. Secretary of Commerce and the U.S. Trade
Representative to serve on the Industry Sector Advisory
Committee. He advised the U.S. on trade policy in the
Reagan and Bush administrations.
Past
Board member of the Asian Pacific American Legal Center,
Export Managers Association of California, Big Brothers
and Sisters of Wausau, Wisconsin, South Bay Chinese
Cultural Center (South Bay Chinese School).
Member
and
Board of Directors, Torrance Memorial Medical Center
Foundation
Founder
and past Chairman, CAUSE
Past
Board of Governor, Chinese American Lawyers Association
of Southern California
Member
and Board of Directors, NAMWOLF
Founder
and Past Board of Governor, Asian Pacific American
Lawyers Association of Los Angeles
Keynote
speaker, U.S. Department of Commerce’s Annual Executive
Conference
Listed
in Marquis Who’s Who in the World and Who’s Who in
American Law
INTA Panel of Neutrals
Los Angeles County Superior Court Panel of Mediators and Arbitrators
Languages:
Mandarin
Cantonese
Shanghainese
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