Michelle Sonu is a Lecturer in Law and the Associate Director for the Organizations and Transactions Clinic at Stanford Law School. She supervises and works closely with second- and third-year law students as they learn the practice of corporate and transactional law. The clinic’s clients are all established nonprofit corporations and active in fields such as agriculture, visual and performing arts, education, business incubation, and the environment.

Before joining Stanford in 2012, Michelle practiced at Cooley LLP in Palo Alto, California for over ten years, where she focused primarily on mergers and acquisitions as well as general corporate law and securities transactions for technology and life sciences companies and investors. She also worked as a staff attorney at IBM’s global headquarters in Armonk, New York.

Michelle received her JD from Harvard Law School in 1999, where she served as Technical Editor of the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology. She earned her SB in Biology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1996.