Jamie Otto is senior counsel and Pro Bono Counsel in the Los Angeles office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. In this dual role, Jamie represents clients in intellectual property litigation, counseling, and licensing matters and helps lead the firm’s pro bono immigration program.

Jamie has more than a decade of experience representing technology clients in patent litigation, trade secret disputes, licensing matters, and related counseling. Her practice focuses on complex technologies, including computer hardware, consumer electronics, mobile communications technology, financial services technology, and software. She has litigated matters in federal district courts, state courts, the International Trade Commission, and arbitration proceedings.

In her pro bono practice, Jamie works with the firm’s Community Impact team to oversee immigration matters, including asylum and other humanitarian immigration cases. She has represented asylees, refugees, survivors of domestic violence, and nonprofit and community organizations, including a domestic violence women’s advocacy group, a local health clinic, and a national reading and literacy organization. Jamie also serves on the firm’s Pro Bono Committee, which manages, coordinates, and leads the firm’s pro bono efforts.

Jamie’s dual role reflects a longstanding interest in both technology and public interest work. Before joining the firm, Jamie worked in the Duke Start-Up Ventures Clinic, where she advised seed and early-stage entrepreneurial ventures on formation, intellectual property protection, commercialization strategies, and operational issues. Her technology background also includes software engineering internships at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and Daewoo Electronics in Suwon, South Korea.

Alongside that technology-focused work, Jamie’s public interest work reflects a sustained commitment to advocacy for children, families, survivors, and underserved communities. Before and during law school, she worked with the National Center for Youth Law on child welfare litigation, volunteered with Family Violence Law Center providing intake, counseling, and referrals for individuals seeking domestic violence victim services, served for 10 years as a Guardian Ad Litem (GAL)/Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) for children involved in the dependency system, and was certified as a domestic violence counselor through the Women’s Center in San Francisco. Jamie also taught middle-school math full time at under-resourced public schools in South Central Los Angeles and East Oakland through Teach for America.