Times Wang
Times is a Chambers-ranked litigator who combines his passion for the pursuit of justice with his love of the craft of lawyering.
He founded Farra & Wang PLLC after over a decade of high-level practice at elite litigation firms on both sides of the v. and after founding a human-rights-focused litigation boutique.
Praised for his writing, leadership, creativity, and tenacity, Times has handled high-stakes cases in areas of law ranging from bankruptcy, class actions, civil rights, commodities, patents, securities, and more, on behalf of both plaintiffs and defendants, at both the trial and appellate levels.
His clients have included whistleblowers, consumers, inventors, investors, dissidents, workers, religious minorities, NGOs, and businesses large and small.
His victories have included multiple precedent-setting appeals and extremely favorable settlements. In cases representing plaintiffs, his work has contributed to settlements totaling several hundred million dollars.
Times has a soft spot for underdogs facing down bullies. In this, he was inspired by his father, a well-known Chinese pro-democracy activist and political prisoner named Wang Bingzhang.
Times is fluent in Chinese and conversant in French.
He regularly publishes on topics relating to the rule of law, human rights, and democracy. He also serves on the board of North River Legal Fund, a non-profit dedicated to supporting impact litigation that promotes democratic values, protects human rights, and challenges the influence of authoritarian regimes. He lives in Denver.
California
District of Columbia
Colorado
U.S. Supreme Court
U.S Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
J.D., New York University School of Law (2011) (Cum laude)
B.A., McGill University, East Asian Studies (2007) (Great distinction)
Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC, Washington, D.C.
Irell & Manella LLP, Los Angeles, California
North River Law PLLC, Washington, D.C.
Times's Representative Cases
He Depu et al. v. Oath Holdings, Inc. et al. (D.D.C.)
To settle a controversy over its complicity in the jailing of Chinese internet users whose data it handed to the government, Yahoo created a $17.3 million charitable trust in 2007 for imprisoned dissidents. But Yahoo and the nonprofit it partnered with frittered the money away — less than 4% ever reached the people it was meant for. We sued in federal court on behalf of six former political prisoners. The defendants fought for eight years. We won an appeal, then won a trial on whether Yahoo had intended to create a trust at all. The case settled in 2025 for $5.425 million, most of it endowing a new fund to finish the job.
Tafari Mbadiwe and Rachel Miller v. Amazon, Inc. (S.D.N.Y.)
Say you have a clothing company and want to do online sales on both your own website, as well as on Amazon. Amazon’s fees are so high that your own website’s price for a given product could be significantly lower than on Amazon and you could still make the same profit. The problem is that, for years, Amazon prohibited sellers from setting that lower price. This practice, we think, violated the antitrust and related laws of several states, and caused consumers to pay higher prices. We filed a class action in federal court on behalf of those consumers.
Chang et al. v. Shen Yun Performing Arts, Inc. et al. (S.D.N.Y.)
On behalf of four former performers, we allege that the performing arts company Shen Yun and certain of its affiliates have generated hundreds of millions of dollars from a forced child labor scheme, recruiting vulnerable young dancers and musicians into an educational program that is ultimately a pretext for a brutal system of coercion and control.
Mortis et al. v. Polis et al. (Colo. Dist. Ct.)
We are trial counsel in a historic class action seeking to end slavery and involuntary servitude in the Colorado prison system. Alongside our co-counsel, we went to trial, helping craft trial and examination strategy, draft trial briefs, and conduct witness examinations. And we won. The case is now headed to an appeal before the Colorado Supreme Court.
Xu Lun v. Milwaukee Electric Tool Corp. (E.D. Wis.) (7th Cir.)
Federal law lets victims of forced labor sue American companies that knowingly profit from it. Our client — a Chinese dissident — spent five months in a Hunan prison sewing work gloves stamped with the Milwaukee Tool logo, up to thirteen hours a day for as little as $1.41 a month. We sued Milwaukee Tool in federal court in Wisconsin. Without reaching the facts, the district court held that the law’s civil remedy stops at the water’s edge. The appeal is pending in the Seventh Circuit, where twelve states have filed briefs supporting our client. We argue that U.S. companies can and should be sued in U.S. courts for profiting from forced labor abroad.
Blanco Bonilla et al. v. CSI Aviation, Inc. et al. (D.D.C.)
In March 2025, three chartered planes carried more than 230 Venezuelan men out of Texas. The men had been told they were going home to Venezuela. Instead they were flown to El Salvador and locked in CECOT, a prison whose own officials boasted that no one leaves alive, where they were held incommunicado for four months and, they allege, beaten and tortured. A federal judge ordered the flights halted and the planes returned. They went to El Salvador anyway. We represent three of those men in a class action against the two aviation companies that flew them, CSI Aviation and GlobalX.
In re Credit Default Swaps Auctions Litigation (D.N.M.)
We allege that 10 Wall Street banks created and then manipulated the auction process used in the valuation of certain financial instruments, causing artificial prices for the banks’ own benefit. On behalf of the New Mexico Attorney General’s Office and multiple public institutional investors, we filed a federal antitrust and market manipulation class action against the banks.
