The Chinese American Lawyers Association of Orange County (CALA OC) was established in 2024 and is dedicated to serving the unique needs of Chinese American legal professionals in Orange County, California.
CALA OC is a 501(c)(6) non-profit organization.
Our vision is to develop, empower, and elevate Chinese American contributions to the legal community and civic life of Orange County.
We will achieve our vision by advancing our members’ professional development, expanding our community’s influence, and celebrating our cultural heritage.
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Eudeen Chang is the named partner of CHANG LLP. He represents public and private clients in a wide range of industries, including real estate, particularly hospitality, manufacturing, e-commerce, and medical equipment and supplies.
Eudeen advises clients on real estate and corporate transactions, joint ventures, and corporate structure, formation, and governance. He serves as outside general counsel for companies and high net worth individuals aiming to minimize their exposure to potential liability and lawsuits. In this role, Eudeen advises clients in all aspects of the business, helps clients build a trusted team of essential professional advisors, and often oversees litigation handled by outside counsel.
Eudeen’s professional acumen–combined with his fluency in Mandarin and his cultural knowledge–make him a valued asset for Chinese companies and investors doing business in the United States. He is the preferred go-to attorney for many Asian-owned companies and business owners. He is well-experienced in litigating cases in California and Federal courts, as well as arbitrations, with an emphasis in real estate, contract, and internal corporate governance and partnership disputes.
Prior to forming CHANG LLP, Eudeen was a partner at Perkins Coie, LLP, Troutman Pepper LLP, and Greenberg Traurig LLP. Eudeen graduated from UC Berkeley with an A.B. and UCLA with a J.D.
Nicole Su is Senior Corporate Counsel with Hyundai Capital America (HCA), an automotive finance company that provides financial products for Hyundai, Genesis and Kia car brands. Nicole’s practice focuses on consumer financial services litigation and related regulation. At HCA, Nicole manages all defensive consumer litigation nationwide. She also assists with government inquiries as well as provides advice and counsel to the various business units at HCA.
Prior to her role at HCA, Nicole worked at an international law firm handling financial services and business litigation. Nicole is also active with various local community organizations including previously being on the board of the Orange County Asian American Bar Association (OCAABA) and on the community service committee of the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC).
Nicole obtained her J.D. from Loyola Law School and her B.A. from Northwestern University.
Amy Chen is a U.S.-China consultant, advising corporate and non-profit organizations on U.S.-China geopolitical and regulatory matters. She serves on the boards of the Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs, Yale-China and UC Irvine Law School. She is also a member of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations.
For over 20 years, as an attorney based in Hong Kong and then California, Amy developed expertise in various areas at the intersection of law, business, policy and U.S.-China relations, including antitrust, anti-corruption, capital markets, CFIUS, crisis management, data security, intellectual property and technology licensing. During this period, Amy worked for several multinational technology companies, including Alibaba during its startup stage, Juniper Networks, Broadcom and Ingram Micro. Amy started her career with Simpson Thacher & Bartlett in New York.
Amy graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in economics and political science, magna cum laude, and from Columbia Law School with a J.D. She is fluent in Mandarin Chinese.
Michael Chow is an intellectual property partner at Orrick. His practice focuses on intellectual property litigation, with an emphasis on patent litigation. Michael has worked on matters for companies including Canon Inc., Ricoh, Panasonic, eBay, eBay Enterprise, Foxconn, Robert Bosch, Realtek, Anker, Fujitsu Limited, and NVIDIA Corporation covering technologies such as eCommerce, Bluetooth, automotive technology, optical networking and telecommunication, graphics processing, and signal equalization.
Prior to law school, Michael was a mechanical engineer with M-E Engineers, Inc., in Culver City, Calif., where he designed the HVAC systems, including sizing equipment and devising airflows, for hospitals, sporting venues, and office buildings. His projects included Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital in Whittier, Calif., and Citizens Bank Arena in Ontario, Calif.
Michael graduated from UCLA with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and UCLA School of Law with a J.D.
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Ivy Wang is a litigation shareholder in the White Collar Defense & Investigations practice group at Greenberg Traurig LLP. Ivy previously prosecuted federal criminal cases as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Central District of California.
Ivy is also a Past President of the Orange County Asian American Bar Association (OCAABA).
Ivy graduated from Harvard College and Yale Law School, and clerked for the Hon. William A Fletcher on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Sabrina Wang is a partner at intellectual property law firm Knobbe Martens where she advises clients in Orange County and globally that are working at the forefront of innovation. Ms. Wang develops robust IP portfolios for companies in all growth stages at the cutting edge of technology and helps position companies for successful expansion.
Through her high-level work and leadership roles, she helps to promote women-led innovation in STEM. Ms. Wang has served on the firm’s Executive Committee and is a member of the Recruiting Committee and Women Associates Advisory Committee. She also co-leads Knobbe Martens’ Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) affinity group, supporting firmwide DEI initiatives.
Sabrina graduated from the University of Virginia School of Law with a J.D. and the National University of Singapore (B.Eng. Bioengineering).
David Lee is a Corporate partner at Jones Day. David structures and negotiates domestic and cross-border transactions on behalf of corporations, venture capital firms, and private equity houses. His practice includes mergers & acquisitions, private placements, initial public offerings, follow-on offerings, recapitalizations, take-private transactions, hostile takeover defense, and other complex corporate transactions. David has experience in a number of dynamic sectors, including the healthcare, cleantech, energy, and digital media industries. He regularly represents clients in these sectors in their most important sales, acquisitions and licenses, new technologies, and corporate acquisitions.
Mr. Lee advises venture capital and private equity firms on their strategic investments and acquisitions throughout the investment lifecycle. He also handles equity and debt capital markets offerings on behalf of both issuers and investment banks.
Mr. Lee received his J.D., magna cum laude, from Northwestern University School of Law, where he was elected Order of the Coif. He received his MBA, with Distinction, from Northwestern University, and his Bachelor’s degree from UC Berkeley.
Honorable Goodwin H. Liu is an Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court.
Before joining the state’s highest court, Justice Goodwin Liu was Professor of Law and Associate Dean at the UC Berkeley School of Law. He earned a bachelor’s degree from Stanford, a master’s degree from Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship, and a law degree from Yale. He clerked for Judge David Tatel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the U.S. Supreme Court.
He also worked in the litigation practice of O’Melveny & Myers, served as Special Assistant to the Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Education, and helped launch the AmeriCorps national service program. His primary areas of expertise are constitutional law, education law and policy, and diversity in the legal profession. He has been noted for his work on the Portrait of Asian Americans in the Law project, which is a survey and report that comprehensively examines the experiences and representation of Asian American legal professionals.
Mr. Ong is Chairman of the Board of the Pacific Symphony, a member of the Board of the Segerstrom Center for the Arts and a member of the Board of Visitors of UCI Law School. He was previously a member, and past Chairman, of the Board of The Wooden Floor. Mr. Ong retired as Executive Vice President and Deputy General Counsel at Pacific Investment Management Company LLC (PIMCO) in 2020.
Prior to joining PIMCO, he was associate general counsel with Barclays Global Investors and before that, an executive director at Morgan Stanley. Mr. Ong was previously an associate at Davis, Polk & Wardwell and was a law clerk on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He holds a J.D. from Fordham University School of Law, where he was senior articles editor on the law review, and an undergraduate degree from Cornell University. He is admitted to the bar in New York and Washington, D.C.
Associate Justice Deborah Chuang Servino is a judge of the California Court of Appeal.
Peter Zeughauser is one of the legal industry’s premier strategists. He counsels leaders of top-ranked global, national, regional, and boutique firms on the challenges and opportunities they face as a result of the internationalization, consolidation, and segmentation of the market for legal services. His consulting practice includes significant work in China, where he maintains a Zeughauser Group office and advises a number of leading Chinese law firms.
Peter served over a decade as senior vice president and general counsel of The Irvine Company and for ten years on the board of directors of the Association of Corporate Counsel, which he chaired in 1991.
Peter holds a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin – Madison. He received his J.D. from Saint Louis University School of Law, where he was elected to Alpha Sigma Nu, the national Jesuit Honor Society.
