Morgan Chu
Morgan Chu (born December 27, 1950), () is an American intellectual property attorney. 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. 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 and 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. Family Morgan Chu's 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