Lucy Lu

Managing Partner

Lucy Lu, Esq.

Lucy Lu is the Founder and Managing Partner of aiLegal Law. She leads the firm's general practice, expansion, and executive management. 

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Ms. Lu's practice includes all aspects of immigration, corporate, startup, transaction, federal investigation, litigation, employment, franchise, estate planning, tax, trademark, copyright, and licensing. 

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Ms. Lu is a female entrepreneur in law and technology. Before founding aiLegal Law, she has managed a boutique law firm for over 10 years. She also founded aiLegal, a software company in cloud-based SaaS contract automation and management platform. 

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With Ms. Lu's unique position in legal and technology industry, she is missioned to found aiLegal Law as a tech-enabled law practice beyond law firm to deliver better, faster, and cheaper legal service to the firm's clients with good quality. 

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Ms. Lu has expertise in the followings: 

• Counsel large international companies in in-bound and out-bound corporate immigration matters; 

• Counsel international talents in full immigration services from business solutions, family solutions, removal defense, and federal litigations; 

• Counsel corporate structure and governance for franchises with multi-state or multi-national practices; 

• Counsel non-profit organizations in multi-state operations; 

• Counsel startups in corporate structure, incentive plans, financing, valuation, technology, growth and exit strategies; 

• Counsel international business transactions in sales of goods or services; 

• Counsel US and international businesses in federal investigation by Department of Labor, Department of Homeland Security, Department of State, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcements, and Internal Revenue Services; and 

• Counsel foreign business in varies industries, including but not limited to manufacturing, high tech, trading, entertainment, real estate, entering the U.S. market. 

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Attorney Admission

• Supreme Court of Tennessee

• U.S. Courts of Appeals for the 11th Circuit

• U.S. District Court of District of Columbia

• Executive Office for Immigration Review

• Multiple District Courts, pro hac vice

Education

• Illinois Tech, Chicago-Kent College of Law, LL.M

• Tsinghua University, School of Law, LL.B

• Georgia Tech, EMBA (Incomplete)

• Harvard Law School Executive Program - Law Firm Leadership

• Harvard Business School Executive Program

Language

• Mandarin

• English

Professional Activities

• Tennessee Bar Association

• American Immigration Lawyer Association

• American Bar Association

Social Activities

• 2022 - NY AILA Chapter, Practice Management Committee

• 2022 - NY AILA Chapter, CLE Committee

• 2022 - NY AILA Chapter, Federal Litigation Committee

• October 2022 - Invited Speaker at U.S. District Court, Northern District of Georgia, Naturalization Ceremony

• 2022 - Volunteer Attorney for Aga Khan Development Network's event to assist asylum seekers

• 2022 - Invited Speaker for Practice Management at GA-AL AILA Annual Conference

• 2022 - Invited Speaker at Symposium of Asia-USA Partnership Opportunity (SAUPO) 

• 2019 - Invited Speaker at Young Scholars Forum of Association of Chinese Professionals

• 2019 - Invited Judge for Startup Competition for Alumni of Zhejiang University of the North America

• 2019 - Invited Speaker at Block Legal Tech Conference

• 2018 - Speaker at Georgia Professional Manager Association Event

• 2017 - Speaker at Georgia ITServe Alliance Event

• 2016 - Invited Speaker at Silicon Valley Business Association Event

• 2007 - President of Board of Directors of Tsinghua Alumni Association of Georgia