Morgan Chu is an American intellectual property attorney.
18 Facts About Morgan Chu
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Morgan Chu later taught at Washington University in St Louis and at Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute.
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Morgan Chu's parents married in 1945 and began a family.
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The middle brother, Steven Morgan 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.
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Steven Morgan 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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Morgan Chu dropped out of high school and left home, but by age 25 he had five university degrees.
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Morgan Chu was elevated to partner in 1982, and became the firm's co-managing partner in 1997, serving two terms until 2003.
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Morgan Chu is known for his many high-profile trials involving technology.
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When Morgan Chu was still an undergraduate at UCLA, he co-founded UCLA's Asian American Studies Center.
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Morgan Chu has previously served on the Board of Governors of the University of California, Los Angeles Foundation.
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Morgan Chu has been an adjunct professor of law at UCLA School of Law and has served as a judge pro tempore.
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At Harvard Law School, Morgan Chu was an editor of the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review.
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Since law school, Morgan Chu has been a frequent lecturer and teacher.
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Morgan Chu participated in symposia at Harvard Law School and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and he was the Traphagen Distinguished Speaker at Harvard in 2003.
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Morgan Chu served as an adjunct professor at UCLA Law School from 1978 to 1981.
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Morgan Chu serves on the Board and Executive Committee of Public Counsel, the largest pro bono public interest law firm in the world.
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In one of his pro bono cases, Morgan Chu spent six years securing the reversal of a conviction of a death row inmate, the first reversal upheld by the US Supreme Court of a conviction and death penalty in the 20 years since California had reinstated the death penalty.
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Morgan Chu has received awards and honors as one of the top attorneys in the United States, as well as for his contributions to higher education and the community.