Times Wang

Times Wang 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.

Times’ past successes include:

• Major appellate victory that gave hope to an abused charitable fund. Times represents a group of Chinese dissidents in a long-running lawsuit alleging that a $17.3 milion charitable trust called the Yahoo Human Rights Fund was abused and squandered by the companies charged with managing it. When the trial judge threw the lawsuit out, Times persuaded a federal appeals court to unanimously reverse the judge’s decision and reinstate the lawsuit. Times subsequently secured several other victories, including winning a trial on the key issue of whether Yahoo intended to create a charitable trust. See He Depu v. Yahoo! Inc., 950 F.3d 897 (D.C. Cir. 2020); He Depu v. Oath Holdings, Inc., 531 F. Supp. 3d 219 (D.D.C. 2021); Depu v. Oath Holdings, Inc., No. CV 17-635 (RDM), 2022 WL 1500542 (D.D.C. May 12, 2022).

• Creative appellate victory that led to a $28 million settlement. Times represented a class of investors in an investment fraud lawsuit alleging that a global electronics company omitted key information from its SEC filings about certain of its products. When the trial judge threw the lawsuit out, Times drafted the briefs and came up with the winning strategy of focusing specifically on the company’s failure to disclose that those products had become obsolete, which persuaded a federal appeals court to reverse the trial judge’s dismissal and reinstate the case. After it was returned to the trial court, Times ran the day-to-day prosecution of the case, which ended up settling for $28 million. See In re Harman Int'l Indus., Inc. Sec. Litig., 791 F.3d 90 (D.C. Cir. 2015).

• Confidential settlement with a major technology company for issues relating to free speech. Times secured a confidential settlement on behalf of a client who claimed their free speech rights had been violated by a major technology company. Times was able to do so without filing a lawsuit by leveraging a creative legal theory. He also was able to get the company to change certain aspects of its offerings to better protect users’ speech rights.

• Multiple 9-figure settlements with various global investment banks for misconduct relating to mortgage-backed securities. Times helped secure 9-figure settlements with several major investment banks in lawsuits relating to mortgage-backed securities arising out of the 2008 financial crisis.