Stephen S. Wu

Stephen Wu is a shareholder with Silicon Valley Law Group.  He advises clients concerning cutting edge information technologies, such as artificial intelligence, automated vehicles, robotics, mobile computing, cloud computing, Big Data, human-computer interfaces, and the Internet of Things.  His work in AI includes counseling clients on the use of various generative AI applications.  He helps clients with transactions, compliance, liability, investigations, and information governance regarding these technologies.  His work includes establishing data security, privacy, and records management policies and programs.  Steve counsels clients on compliance with the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), and the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA).

Steve represents clients in federal and state court litigation and resolves disputes through arbitration and mediation.  His typical cases relate to information technology, trade secret, and copyright disputes.

Finally, Steve acts as outside general counsel to Silicon Valley startups and technology companies, drafting and negotiating software-as-a-service (SaaS) and AI-as-a-service (AIaaS) agreements, licenses, hardware sales agreements, HIPAA business associate agreements, marketing agreements, and other technology transactions.

Steve served as the 2010-2011 Chair of the American Bar Association Section of Science & Technology Law.  He currently serves as Chair of the American Bar Association Artificial Intelligence and Robotics National Institute held in Silicon Valley each October.  In 2023, American Bar Association President Mary Smith appointed Steve as an Advisory Committee member of the ABA-wide Task Force on Law and Artificial Intelligence.

He is a member of a number of various ABA Science & Technology Law Section Committees, including the Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Internet of Things, Big Data, Information Security, and E-Privacy Law Committees.  The American Bar Association published his book, Guide to HIPAA Security and the Law, in August 2016.  Steve has written or co-written six other books on information security and the law.  In 2019 and 2024, he wrote book chapters for ABA publications on AI and the legal issues of connected vehicle systems. 

Before joining Silicon Valley Law Group, Steve was a Silicon Valley partner at Cooke Kobrick & Wu LLP.  Before starting his private practice, was the second in-house attorney at VeriSign, Inc.  At VeriSign, he was in charge of the team managing the company’s security policies and procedures (certificate policies and certification practice statements) supporting its secure ecommerce (public key infrastructure) services.  Before VeriSign, Steve practiced with two international law firms, Jones Day and the firm now known as K&L Gates, in the areas of intellectual property, commercial, and general litigation, as well as technology licensing and transactions.  From 1988 to 1990, Steve served as a law clerk to the Hon. Joseph P. Kinneary, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio.  He is a 1988 graduate of Harvard Law School (with honors).