Claudia Lin
Claudia Lin represents AI developers, compute providers, and the enterprises that depend on both in the transactions that build and commercialize AI systems. Her practice spans the model layer, the compute layer, and the transactions that connect them. She negotiates agreements for AI model development and commercialization alongside the compute, cloud, and data center arrangements that support them, and she uses that vantage point to help clients anticipate dependencies, align commercial commitments, and allocate risk across related deals.
Her infrastructure work includes compute procurement, GPU-as-a-service and managed compute arrangements, colocation agreements, and model hosting and deployment agreements with compute providers, data center operators, and hyperscale cloud platforms. She works closely with business and engineering teams to translate technical requirements into commitments on delivery, capacity, performance, availability, and operational responsibility. Her model-layer work includes data and content licensing for training and outputs, model commercialization, including models-as-a-service and marketplace listings, and customer and partner agreements for AI products, along with advice on retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), agentic systems, AI governance, and downstream use of model outputs. She regularly works with clients in regulated industries, including financial services and healthcare.
Claudia works directly with clients' legal, technical, and commercial teams to produce agreements that reflect how their businesses and technology actually operate. Because she works across the full AI stack, she helps clients weigh tradeoffs and catch issues that get missed when model and infrastructure agreements are negotiated in isolation.
Representative Matters
Admitted to Practice
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California
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Washington
Education
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J.D., Technology and Entrepreneurship Certificate, USC Gould School of Law
- Small Business Clinic
- Business Law Advisor
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B.A., Economics and International Studies, Pepperdine University
Languages
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Mandarin, Cantonese
Memberships & Affiliations
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- Asian Bar Association of Washington
Professional Recognition
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- Named "One to Watch" by Best Lawyers in Technology Law, 2024-2027
- Most Valuable Student Award, International Refugee Assistance Project, 2017
Background
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- Research Assistant, Professor Michael Simkovic and Professor Alex Lee, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
- Summer Associate, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, Seattle
- Legal Extern, Department of Transportation and Construction, Washington State Office of the Attorney General, Olympia, Wash.