Shengyang Wu

Bar / Professional Activity

• Co-chair of Solo and Small Practice Committee of NYCLA. , 2020
• Member of American Association of Justice
• U.S District Court for the Eastern District of New York
• New York

Verdicts / Settlements (Case Results)

• Wrongful Death - Settlement for One Million Dollar ($1,000,000.00) Supreme Court of New York, County of Richmond, Index No.: 722386/2023 A senior citizen was run over and killed by the driver of a Ford van on Monday afternoon November 21, 2022, at a notorious Staten Island intersection, but the driver was not charged, said the NYPD. https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2022/11/22/pedestrian-struck-and-killed-on-dangerous-staten-island-arterial-no-charges, 2024
• Wrongful Death - Confidential - Settled without lawsuit.  It happened just after 6 p.m. Saturday on 2019 124th Street in College Point right next to a playground Police say the boy ran out between two parked cars when he was struck.https://abc7ny.com/post/queens-child-struck-5-year-old-killed-after-hit-by-car-in-college-point/14839715/, 2025

Videos

• The Federal District Court of Northern California held a hearing on the morning of September 17 granted the plaintiff's request for a preliminary injunction to President’s Trumps WeChat ban order. I commented about the President's executive order on BBC in this news at 1:14, How US and China's break-up could affect the world - BBC News, Constitutional Law, 2020

Pro bono / Community Service

• AABANY pro bono service, 2017
• Lin Sing Association

Honors

• Leadership, Pro Bono and Civic Work: Co-Chair of Solo and Small Practice Committee of NYCLA; active member of AABANY online pro bono service during COVID-19 pandemic; provides weekly pro bono service in person at Fukienese Association in Chinatown, New York; trustee of US WeChat Users Alliance, the leading plaintiff in the First Amendment case US WeChat Users Alliance v. Trump, challenging Trump’s Executive Order banning a social media company. The case was granted for a nationwide preliminary injunction in the Northern District of California, and upheld by the Ninth Circuit unanimously. The Executive Order was withdrawn by the Biden Administration in early 2021., New York Law Journal Rising Star, https://www.law.com/newyorklawjournal/2021/10/04/rising-star-shengyang-wu/, 2021
• 40 under 40, The National Trial Lawyers
• Rising Stars 2018 - 2022, Super Lawyers
• Rising Stars 2021, New York Law Journal

Educational Background

• East China University of Political Science and Law, LL.B, 2011

Firm News (Newsletters)

• A Brooklyn woman says she is planning on taking legal action against a home health aide company, saying her 95-year-old father didn’t get adequate care before his death in October. Liwei Li says a home health aide from Alternate Staffing ignored Guilin Li’s calls for help in his native Mandarin on Oct. 29. He had complained of heart palpitations and not feeling well., Brooklyn woman says home aide company was inattentive as father died, Home Care
• After US President Trump issued an executive order to ban WeChat in early August, Chinese Americans spontaneously formed a non-profit organization, the American WeChat Users Association (hereinafter referred to as “WeChat Association”), which plans to sue the U.S. government to protect the right of more than 5 million Chinese in the United States to continue using WeChat. On August 21, the US WeChat Federation formally sued president trump and Commerce Minister Ross in the federal court of Northern California. On August 28, the US WeChat Association submitted an application motion for an injunction, believing that the WeChat ban violated the freedom of speech of Chinese Americans and constituted discrimination against Chinese. It asked the federal judge to issue a preliminary injunction to veto the president’s administrative order on WeChat., U.S. government’s concession under Chinese Lawsuit: allowing Chinese Americans to continue using wechat, Constitutional Law
• Shengyang Wu is one of the initiators to start a constitutional challenge against President Trump's administration banning WeChat, a Chinese language social media and message platform. The litigation is high-profiled and got a preliminary injunction at Northern District of California before the executive order taking effect before September 20, 2020. , How US and China's break-up could affect the world - BBC News, Constitutional Law
• The chokehold maneuver that a police officer used to kill Eric Garner in 2014 has been banned for over 20 years by NYPD. A video of an incident in Columbus Circle on Sunday, though, shows a member of the NYPD arresting a man who, as a result of illegally skateboarding in Columbus Circle, was placed in a chokehold. The suspect, 22-year-old Yibin Mu, was charged with resisting arrest, among other charges. Comments from pedestrians who witnessed the ordeal can be heard in the video. One person remarked, “Here we go again.” (New York Daily News) The young man and his family retained Mr. Wu of Caesar & Napoli when they were looking for the community leader in Chinatown for help. This may constitute "Attorney Advertising" under the New York Rules of Professional Conduct and is not, nor is it intended to be, legal advice., Skateboarder sue NYPD for chokehold (Chinese)
• The girl, who had a walk signal, was trapped under the left front wheel of the bus and later rushed to Bellevue Hospital in serious but stable condition. The driver of the bus, 58-year-old Francisco de Jesus, was arrested and charged with violation of highway law and failure to exercise due care, and given a desk appearance ticket, which angered union officials to the point of threatening a driver work slowdown. (New York Daily News) This news is about that Mr. Wu, the intake attorney, was interviewed before 50-H hearing. This may constitute "Attorney Advertising" under the New York Rules of Professional Conduct and is not, nor is it intended to be, legal advice, MTA Bus trapped 15-year old girl (Chinese)

• Entrepreneurship