Two USD School of Law Alumni Named San Diego Business Journal 2024 Leaders of Influence in Life Sciences

SAN DIEGO (July 29, 2024) – Congratulations to University of San Diego (USD) School of Law alumni Jaime Choi ’10 (JD) and Noel Gillespie ’02 (JD), on being named to San Diego Business Journal‘s 2024 Leaders of Influence in Life Sciences.

Jaime Choi, Ph.D., is a partner in Sheppard Mullin’s Intellectual Property group and a member of the firm’s Life Sciences industry team, where she focuses her practice on patenting complex, interdisciplinary technologies and helping her clients – primarily life sciences companies – build strategic patent portfolios. She represents a broad spectrum of life sciences clients, including bioinformatics companies and medical device manufacturers spanning the robotics, microfluidics, photonics and spectroscopy sectors. 

Noel Gillespie is a partner at Procopio who advises both startup and mature life sciences and Medtech clients on strategic patent portfolio development and implementation to protect their technology and achieve their business objectives, the most important being market share and premium pricing. He has extensive experience working with diagnostic, genomic, digital health, and medical devices companies, bringing a particular specialization with respect to the integration of AI, sensors, and the cloud into life science and MedTech applications.

For the complete list of Leaders of Influence in Life Sciences 2024 Honorees, click here. 

About the University of San Diego School of Law

Each year, USD educates approximately 800 Juris Doctor and graduate law students from throughout the United States and around the world. The law school is renowned for its offerings in the areas of business and corporate law, constitutional law, intellectual property, international and comparative law, public interest law, and taxation.

USD School of Law is one of the 84 law schools elected to the Order of the Coif, a national honor society for law school graduates. The law school’s faculty consists of outstanding scholars and teachers with national and international reputations, currently ranking 30th nationally among U.S. law faculties in scholarly impact and 41st nationally in past-year faculty downloads on the Social Sciences Research Network (SSRN). The school is accredited by the American Bar Association and is a member of the Association of American Law Schools. Founded in 1954, the law school is part of the University of San Diego, a private, independent, Roman Catholic university chartered in 1949.