THE Human Trafficking Legal Center will present the Litigator of the Year Award to Aaron Halegua on Sept. 22.
The award honors an individual who has shown exceptional skill in securing justice for survivors of forced labor or sex trafficking.
“Aaron Halegua, who is fluent in Mandarin Chinese, litigated an enormously significant civil trafficking case on behalf of Chinese construction workers trafficked for forced labor to Saipan,” the Human Trafficking Legal Center stated.
“The workers, forced to build casinos, filed their case under the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act. Earlier this year, a federal court awarded seven workers Aaron represented in the case $5.9 million in damages. The case is one of the largest construction worker civil trafficking cases ever seen in the federal courts.”
Halegua on social media said: “I’m very honored and humbled to receive this award. I hope you are able to join the event and/or make a contribution to this wonderful organization doing incredible, impactful work.”
To watch Halegua accepts his award on Sept. 22, register at https://www.htlegalcenter.org/events/2021-on-my-side-awards
Halegua has an A.B. from Brown University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. He was a Fulbright Scholar at Peking University Law School after college. He is also a research fellow at both NYU Law School’s Center for Labor and Employment Law and U.S.-Asia Law Institute.
His area of expertise includes labor and employment law, human trafficking and forced labor, litigation and dispute resolution, corporate social responsibility and supply chains, and legal aid in the United States and China.
Aaron Halegua