About Our Law Firm

Law Office of Sun provides professional legal service in the following areas.
Immigration law practice:

Alice H. Sun, Esq. California State Bar (1994) AILA Member J.D. 1994 (USA) M.A. 1989 (USA) M.A. Law 1986 (China) AILA Member		Alice H. Sun is recognized as a highly successful attorney in the complex areas of immigration law concerning EB1A: Alien of Extraordinary Ability, EB1B: Outstanding Researchers/Professors, EB2: Advanced Degree Alien Requesting National Interest Waiver, and EB5 investors and entrepreneurs. As an AILA member, Alice Sun been doing research and representing EB5 investors since 1996. Together with the highly-experienced staff in our law firm, we have won all EB5 regional center investors\’ petitions. Having my Master degree of law from Mainland China and a J.D. degree in the United States, I am able to help Chinese EB5 investors efficiently and effectively. Ms. Sun started her career in immigration law in 1994 with the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service. She has represented more than a thousand clients in the areas of Eb1A, Eb1B, EB1C, EB2, EB2NIW, EB5 Alien Investors, PERM, AAO appeal, and nonimmigrant visa applications including H1B, H3, O1, O2, E1, E2. L1A, L1B, etc.. Her clientele includes scientists, engineers, postdoctoral researchers, Ph.D. students, business entrepreneurs in almost all 50 states in the United States. Before coming to the United States, Ms. Sun was a legal scholar with the Law Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the national legal research institution of China.

Paralegal Office Manager		Mr. Paul J. Yang is a highly experienced immigration law paralegal. He received his B.A. degree in Communication Studies from California State University, Northridge, and earned a certificate in Legal Interpretation and Translation (English/Korean) from UCLA Extension, University of California, Los Angeles. He has been working for immigration law attorneys since 2004. He speaks English and Korean languages.

Translator, Interpreter		Ms. Olina Wang obtained her bachelor's degree of Television Editing and Directing from Communication University of China, Nanjing, China, During her studies, she took the courses of College English, Grammar and Trope, Modern Chinese Literature, Ancient Chinese Literature and many other subjects. She also obtained a Master’s degree in Communication Studies from the California State University, Northridge. During her studies, she took the courses of Intercultural Communication, Interpersonal Communication, Language and Culture Studies, Rhetorical theory. Ms. Lina Wang is a highly experienced translator and interpreter in business immigration.

Sara Ya Summer Law Clerk Researcher		Ms. .Sara Ya is expecting her Juris Doctor degree in May 2017. She received her her Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Design from Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China. Sara Ya was an Extern Immigration Legal Assistant at Los Angeles County Bar Association, Los Angeles, CA.

Networked Attorneys

Hi-tech Start-up, Intellectual Property, Civil Litigation, Green Energy. Shaub & Williams (Of Counsels) is a group of experts in the area of start-up company funding development, intellectual property protection, civil litigation, green energy. The group represents university professors, researchers and private company inventors at the crossroads of technology and capital markets. While many firms address only partial needs of emerging growth companies, the attorneys in the group cover a wide range of legal and business issues critical to client
success. The service is provided to clients that span across industry segments including companies in software, communications, semiconductor, life sciences and healthcare. In addition to corporate and finance matters, clients are represented in tax, benefits, employment, intellectual property, real estate and litigation matters.

David Shaub Juris Doctor, 1960 California State Bar U.S.District Courts of California, International Law Section Executive Committee Past Chair of Pacific Rim Committee		Mr. David Shaub has been in private practice throughout his career and since 1988. He is an experienced intellectual property and business litigator and has developed a sub-specialty in transnational litigation. He has represented clients in both state and federal courts, in a wide range of areas, including contract, partnership and shareholder disputes, antitrust and unfair competition claims, patent, trade secret, copyright and trademark claims, insurance claims, and commercial disputes. He has been an arbitrator under AAA, UNCITRAL, state and federal judicial and private arbitration regimes. Mr. Shaub also specializes in biotech and high-tech company start-up funding and development. He has provided extensive consultation relating to protection of intellectual property, start-up companies business plans, locating funding and management organizations for scientists nationwide. In association with Rosenbaum Associates, P.C., Mr. Shaub provides a broad range of services related to intellectual property, such as the preparation and prosecution of patent applications, the clearance, registration, maintenance and protection of trademarks, as well as the drafting of license and other agreements pertaining to rights in patent, trademark, copyright and trade secrets.

Leslie Williams California State Bar (1980) U.S. District Court of California, 1990 AIPLA Licensing Executives Society (L.E.S.-U.S. and Canadian Chapter) GRUR (German Intellectual Property & Copyright Law Association) German American Lawyers’ Association (DAJV)		Leslie Williams specializes in green energy and complex business transactions. She advises both starts ups and established firms on intellectual property, research and innovation, licensing, other forms of commercialization and investment. She acts as liaison to foreign clients on litigation and cooperates with foreign counsel when advising U.S. clients on transactions abroad. Due to her foreign legal training and work with German clients, she has special knowledge of German legal and business practices. Representative clients are active in many technology sectors, including semiconductors and advanced ceramics industries. Prior to co-founding Shaub & Williams in 1988, she practiced EU law in Brussels, Belgium (1984-1988) with Squire, Sanders and Dempsey L.L.P where she advised multinational corporate clients on EU Treaty and secondary law, particularly in the pharmaceutical and chemical industries. From 1980 through 1982, Ms. Williams was a research fellow at Max-Planck-Institut fur Geistiges Eigentum, Wettbewerbs-und Steuerrecht (Munich) where she concentrated on comparative intellectual and industrial property law and unfair competition and EU competition law. She is fluent in German, French, and Spanish and has counseled and conducted negotiations on behalf of her clients in these languages.

Juris Doctor, 1998 California State Bar (1999) State Bar of New York, 1999 American Bar Association Los Angeles County Bar Association IP Section Executive Committee International Trademark Association		Lisbeth Bosshart was admitted to practice in 1999 and joined Shaub & Williams shortly thereafter. Her practice areas include business litigation and transactions, international commercial arbitration, intellectual property law and related litigation. Recently, Ms. Bosshart was selected as a Southern California Super Lawyers 2006 Rising Star. Prior to admission to practice, she worked in the law firm of Beiten, Berkhardt, Mittl & Wegener during the summer of 1996 where she worked on a major international arbitration and an investment project in Latin America. During the summer of 1997, she worked at the Department of Transportation in the Office of International Law as a legal advisor to civil aviation negotiations with foreign governments was also the Special Assistant to the Executive Director for International Activities at the American Bar Association in Washington, D.C. She also worked at the firm of Hughes & Hughes in Montevideo, Uruguay where she focused on distribution and agency contracts. She speaks Spanish and German languages.

Stephen Morgan Juris Doctor, 2005		Stephen Morgan has experience in trademark, copyright and business litigation cases from beginning to end. He drafts complaints, pleadings and other documents used in the litigation process; argues motions in both state and federal courts, propounds and responds to discovery, takes and defends depositions, prepares and files trademark registrations and prosecute and defends office actions. He also prepares and files copyright registrations, drafts and negotiates agreements and documents for corporate and entertainment clients, including corporate formalities, employment agreements, property leases, agreements utilized in the production of motion pictures and other agreements utilized in day-to-day operations
		WE REPRESENTATIVE CLIENTS IN RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS NATIONWIDE: • Harvard University • Yale University • Massachusetts Institute of Technology • Cornell University • The Pennsylvania State University • The University of Minnesota • Washington University in St. Louis • University of Florida • Florida State University • University of Missouri • Mississippi State University • Duke University • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign • The University of Arizona • Arizona State University • Rutgers University • New Jersey's Science & Technology University • University of Washington • University of California, Berkeley • University of California, Los Angeles • University of California, Irvine • University of California, Davis • University of California, San Francisco • University of California, Riverside • University of California, San Diego • University of California, Santa Barbara • California Institute of Technology • University of Southern California • Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science • The University of Texas at Arlington • The University of Texas-Pan American • The University of Kansas • University of Alabama at Birmingham • Oklahoma State University • Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis REPRESENTATIVE CLIENTS IN NONPROFIT INSTITUTIONS • NIH/National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences • National Institute of Standards and Technology • Rand Corporation • City of Hope • Childrens Hospital Los Angeles • The Scripps Research Institute • Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation • The Cleveland Clinic • Salk Institute for Biological Studies • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory REPRESENTATIVE CLIENTS IN PRIVATE INDUSTRIES • Carrier Corporation • DIRECTV • Valeant Pharmaceuticals International • Broadcom Corporation • BSST Temperature Control Solutions • The Westbrass Company • Microsemi Corporation • Ondax, Inc. • Michael Baker Jr., Inc.

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