Steve Yamaguchi is Senior Manager of Licensing Compliance and Revenue at the USC Stevens Center for Innovations where he oversees contracts compliance and audits, and revenue distributions and reporting. Previously, he served as Senior Counsel in the USC Office of the General Counsel where he handled a wide variety of transactions, contract negotiation and policy matters. He teaches Contract Drafting, Analysis and Negotiation at USC Gould School of Law. Prior to joining USC, he practiced in Los Angeles and Tokyo with Paul Hastings, LLP and also worked at the Tokyo law firm of Komatsu & Koma. He holds a BA in Political Science and Japanese from Stanford and a JD from Columbia Law School with a certificate in International Law.