Alicia Lai is an associate in Quinn Emanuel’s New York office. Her practice focuses on high-stakes complex commercial litigation, representing both plaintiffs and defendants in federal and state court in matters including intellectual property disputes, fraud, whistleblower claims, and government investigations. She previously served as a law clerk to Judge Tiffany P. Cunningham and Judge Kathleen O’Malley of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and to Judge Edward M. Chen of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. At the University of Pennsylvania Law School, she served as an Articles Editor of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Senior Editor of the Journal of Law & Innovation, and President of the Mock Trial Association. She holds an A.B. in Neuroscience from Princeton University.
Alicia’s articles on law and technology have been published in journals such as the Duke Law Journal, Stanford Journal of Computational Antitrust, Oxford Handbook on AI Governance, and Scientific American. Her work has been selected for presentations at the Salzburg Cutler Program in International Law, Perry World House for Global Engagement, and Harvard Kennedy School of Government, among others. For her academic scholarship and leadership in the intellectual property sector, she received the Jan Jancin Award from the American Intellectual Property Law Association and American Bar Association.
- University of Pennsylvania Law School
(J.D., cum laude, 2021)- Dean’s Scholar
- University of Pennsylvania Law Review:
- Articles Editor
- Journal of Law & Innovation:
- Senior Editor
- Princeton University
(A.B., Neuroscience, Minors in Creative Writing and American Studies, 2018)
The State Bar of New York
- Law Clerk for the Honorable Edward M. Chen:
- United States District Court for the Northern District of California, 2022–2023
- Law Clerk for the Honorable Tiffany P. Cunningham:
- United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, 2021-2022
- Law Clerk for the Honorable Kathleen M. O’Malley:
- United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, 2021-2022
- Artificial Intelligence, LLC: Corporate Personhood as Tort Reform, 2021 MICH. ST. L. REV. 597 (2021).
- Foreword: Algorithms and Competition in the Digital Economy, e-COMPETITIONS ALGORITHMS & COMPETITION (2023) (with Cary Coglianese).
- Algorithm vs. Algorithm, 72 DUKE L.J. 1281 (2022) (with Cary Coglianese).
- Antitrust by Algorithm, 2 STANFORD J. OF COMPUTATIONAL ANTITRUST 1 (2022) (with Cary Coglianese).
- Assessing Automated Administration, in OXFORD HANDBOOK ON AI GOVERNANCE (2022) (with Cary Coglianese).
- The Fallacy of IP Waivers, THE NATIONAL LAW JOURNAL (2021) (with Osagie Imasogie).
- Targeting Asian American Scientists for Espionage is a Shortsighted Strategy, 324 SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN 10 (2021).
- Regulation of Algorithmic Decision-making in the United States, 13 J.L. & ECON. REG. 7 (2020) (with Christopher Yoo).
- Encouraging Efficient Errors in AI Technologies, REG. REV. (2020).