Claudia helps clients structure and negotiate complex transactions involving artificial intelligence, cloud services, virtual reality, the Internet of Things, and other advanced technologies. She has significant experience drafting and negotiating data and content agreements for AI model development, guiding both data providers and model/application developers through the evolving intellectual property and regulatory landscape related to training, fine-tuning, and deploying generative AI models.
Claudia regularly counsels clients on legal and operational issues in AI workflows, including pre-training, fine-tuning, abuse monitoring, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and agentic AI systems. She also helps clients implement responsible AI governance frameworks, address downstream obligations and risks associated with model outputs, and develop strategies for enterprise adoption of new AI-powered technologies.
Admitted to Practice
- California
- Washington
Education
- J.D., Technology and Entrepreneurship Certificate, USC Gould School of Law
- Small Business Clinic
- Business Law Advisor
- B.A., Economics and International Studies, Pepperdine University
Languages
- Mandarin, Cantonese
Memberships & Affiliations
- Asian Bar Association of Washington
Professional Recognition
- Named "One to Watch" by Best Lawyers in Technology Law, 2024-2025
- Most Valuable Student Award, International Refugee Assistance Project, 2017
Background
- 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.