Claire Bispo

While in law school, Claire worked in UC Law’s start-up legal garage clinic under the supervision of practicing attorneys to advise start-up clients on freedom-to-operate and patent prosecution matters. She also worked as a contract manager, providing legal support to fast-moving, venture backed companies across cleantech, manufacturing, Software as a Service (SaaS), and high-tech hardware.

Claire served as the president of the Armenian Law Student Association and the external vice-president of the Tech Law Society. She was also member of the flagship UC Law Journal, working as a staff editor then as a senior production editor.

Claire also had the opportunity to spend a semester of law school studying in Tokyo, Japan in Hitotsubashi University’s global business law program.

Before law school, Claire worked as a validation engineer for Thermo Fisher Scientific in their bioproduction business unit, where she qualified software-integrated single-use bioprocess systems for multinational customers.

Claire completed her senior capstone at UC Santa Cruz as a member of UCSC’s iGEM team. The team conceptualized and executed a synthetic biology project “PoPPY” aimed at creating a localized, sustainable contraceptive grown in a GRAS-strain of yeast.