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Madelyn Chen
Associate
Litigation
Los Angeles
madelyn.chen@wsgr.com

D323-210-2925

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Madelyn Chen is a litigation associate in the Los Angeles office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati.

Prior to joining the firm, Madelyn served as a law clerk for the Honorable Daniel P. Collins of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Upon graduating from Harvard Law School, Madelyn worked as a litigation associate at Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP in Los Angeles, where she received an ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Award for her pro bono work challenging warrantless arrest tactics. As part of that pro bono litigation, Madelyn took depositions of two Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers, led deposition preparation sessions for clients, and drafted sections of dispositive motions.

Experience

Madelyn Chen is a litigation associate in the Los Angeles office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati.

Prior to joining the firm, Madelyn served as a law clerk for the Honorable Daniel P. Collins of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Upon graduating from Harvard Law School, Madelyn worked as a litigation associate at Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP in Los Angeles, where she received an ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Award for her pro bono work challenging warrantless arrest tactics. As part of that pro bono litigation, Madelyn took depositions of two Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers, led deposition preparation sessions for clients, and drafted sections of dispositive motions.

Education
  • J.D., Harvard Law School, 2022

    Cum Laude, Negotiation Workshop Teaching Fellow

  • B.A., English, University of California, Los Angeles, 2019

    Magna Cum Laude

Admissions
  • State Bar of California
Credentials
Education
  • J.D., Harvard Law School, 2022

    Cum Laude, Negotiation Workshop Teaching Fellow

  • B.A., English, University of California, Los Angeles, 2019

    Magna Cum Laude

Admissions
  • State Bar of California

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  • “An Intentionalist Proposal to Reform the Transformative Use Doctrine,” 30 J. Intell. Prop. L. 55, 2022
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Select Publications

  • “An Intentionalist Proposal to Reform the Transformative Use Doctrine,” 30 J. Intell. Prop. L. 55, 2022
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  • Litigation
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On May 19, 2025, Wilson Sonsini secured summary judgment for OpenAI in the first-ever case charging a generative AI company with defamation based on an AI output. The plaintiff, Mark Walters, is a nationally prominent gun rights advocate and radio show host. His defamation claim arose from a journalist's use of ChatGPT in May 2023, where the journalist asked ChatGPT to read and summarize a legal complaint hosted on the web. ChatGPT incorrectly summarized the lawsuit as involving allegations of embezzlement against Walters. 
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