Shucong “Rose” Liu is a bilingual litigation associate at Lynch Thompson, where she has worked since 2017. Rose received her J.D. from the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law in 2017. Rose also received an L.L.M. degree in 2011 from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.  For undergraduate studies, Rose attended Xiamen University in China, where she graduated with a law degree in 2010.  

Rose focuses her practice on complex commercial litigation and alternative dispute resolution. Trained as a litigator in both civil law and common law systems, Rose is uniquely positioned to provide legal representation to businesses involved in cross-border disputes. And, since joining Lynch Thompson, Rose already has worked on several litigation disputes for Chinese and other clients.  Rose has been playing an important role in lawsuits in state and federal courts, including disputes involving international shipment and sale of goods, intellectual property rights, and home health care services. 

While in law school, Rose was a student attorney at Northwestern’s Mediation Advocacy Clinic, where she acted as counsel representing clients in employment dispute mediation, obtaining favorable settlement agreements at both federal and state agencies. She also served as student coach for Northwestern’s 2016 Transactional LawMeet team, and participated in this negotiation competition’s national championship in New York. As an undergraduate law school student, Rose represented Xiamen University in the Sixth China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC) International Arbitration Moot, where the Xiamen University team won the national championship in China. 

Before joining Lynch Thompson, beginning while still in law school, Rose spent nearly one year serving as an extern for a federal judge in Chicago, at the U.S. District Court Northern District of Illinois. 

刘姝聪律师简介

刘姝聪，美国伊利诺伊州及纽约州执证律师，法律博士，毕业于美国西北大学普利兹克法学院，现在领琦汤森律师事务所担任律师，母语为中文。曾在伊利诺伊大学香槟分校、中国厦门大学攻读法律专业。

刘律师专注于复杂商业诉讼，及谈判、调解、仲裁等替代性争议解决方式。她熟悉中、美两国法律及诉讼实务，拥有为中国企业及企业家代理诉讼、谈判的优先条件，且在为芝加哥北伊利诺伊州联邦法院工作的近一年时间积累了联邦案件经验。

刘律师在加入领琦汤森律师事务所后，参与解决数起中美跨国诉讼争议，并在多起涉及数百万美金标的额的案件中作为主要律师之一，推动案件进展。她负责的案件涉及国际货物买卖争议，知识产权纠纷，及疗养院服务争议等。

刘律师在西北大学调解辩护中心任学生律师期间，曾代表多位客户参加美国联邦机构和州机构举行的谈判调解，成功为客户的劳动雇佣纠纷达成有利协议。刘律师还是西北大学2016年模拟商业法律谈判比赛队的学生教练，参加了在纽约举办的全美总决赛；本科期间，她所在的中国厦门大学代表队获得了第六届中国国际经济贸易仲裁委员会杯国际商事仲裁模拟法庭竞赛全国冠军。