Charee Woodard
Charee is committed to making a meaningful difference in the lives of her clients.
Charee joined the firm after completing her judicial clerkship with Chief Judge Debra M. Brown of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi.
She earned her bachelor’s degree cum laude from the University of Mississippi and her law degree magna cum laude from Southern University Law Center, where she served as editor-in-chief of the Southern University Law Review.
Charee brings both compassion and diligence to her legal practice, advocating with purpose and integrity.
In her spare time, Charee enjoys hosting friends and family in her home and cherishes spending time with her four nieces.
She lives in Arlington.
District of Columbia
J.D., Southern University Law Center (2024) (Magna cum laude; Editor-in-chief, Southern University Law Review)
B.S., University of Mississippi (2021) (Cum laude)
Chief Judge Debra M. Brown, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi
Charee's Representative Cases
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.
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore v. The Agora Companies, LLC, et al. (Cir. Ct. Balt. City)
Agora has cultivated the image of an offbeat Baltimore publisher writing about health, finance, and retirement. The City of Baltimore alleges it is something else: a marketing and supplements operation that targets older consumers, with ads promising a cancer treatment with no side effects and get-rich-quick “insider” investment strategies. The complaint alleges Agora lures customers with cheap subscriptions and refund guarantees, then upsells them into products that are hard to cancel — one elderly consumer’s family reported spending more than $30,000 in two years. We represent the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, with Relman Colfax and the Baltimore City Law Department, seeking penalties, restitution, and an order stopping the practices.
Cox and Russell v. e.l.f. Cosmetics, Inc. (Ct. Int'l Trade)
The IEEPA tariffs imposed costs across the economy, largely on consumers. e.l.f. Cosmetics sued the U.S. government for a full refund of the tariffs it paid — and after the Supreme Court struck the tariffs down, that money is coming. But e.l.f. passed the cost of those tariffs on to its customers, so keeping the entire refund for itself would be a big windfall. On behalf of two of those customers, we intervened in e.l.f.’s case in the U.S. Court of International Trade and filed a class action, demanding that e.l.f. pay the refund to the people who actually paid the tariffs rather than pocketing it.
