About Wesley Gee-Lin
Wesley Gee-Lin Cheng began his path to law after studying journalism at Syracuse University. He earned a B.S. in 2005 and went on to receive a J.D. from Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in 2008, where he studied criminal law. Those early academic choices set the tone for a career that has moved between public service, academia and corporate counsel work.
He launched his legal career at the Manhattan District Attorney's Office in 2008. Over the next decade he moved through a series of public-sector roles. In 2014 he served as associate general counsel for the MTA Inspector General. The following year he worked in the Office of the New York State Attorney General as an assistant attorney general. He returned to the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office in 2016 in another assistant district attorney role. These positions involved prosecutorial work, regulatory review and oversight functions tied to public agencies.
Alongside his public-service roles, Cheng took on teaching responsibilities. He taught as an adjunct at CUNY New York City College of Technology in 2013, and later at New York Law School in 2018. In 2022 he joined the faculty of the University of California, College of the Law, San Francisco as an adjunct professor. His teaching stints reflect an interest in passing practical courtroom and regulatory experience to law students.
Cheng transitioned to the corporate sector in 2020 when he joined Apple as corporate counsel. That move shifted his day-to-day work from prosecutorial and oversight roles to an in-house practice. His background in criminal law and work in government agencies informs how he approaches investigations, compliance questions and regulatory matters inside a large technology company. He has experience drafting legal guidance, coordinating with agency counterparts and advising on internal review processes.
Colleagues and former students describe a lawyer who moves comfortably between courtrooms, classrooms and corporate legal departments. He balances litigation and investigative instincts from his public-sector years with the procedural and risk-management demands of in-house counsel work. He is admitted to practice in California and currently handles corporate legal matters for Apple in California.
