Cassandra Chee

Cassandra (Cassie) Chee is an Associate at Wilkinson Stekloff. Before joining the firm, Cassie served as a law clerk to Judge Emmet G. Sullivan of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

Prior to her clerkship, Cassie was an associate at Ropes & Gray LLP in Washington, D.C., where she represented corporate clients in complex commercial litigation matters and government and internal investigations. She also first-chaired an asylum merits hearing in immigration court and won asylum for a Honduran woman fleeing gang and domestic violence.

Cassie attended the American University Washington College of Law, where she was a Note & Comment Editor of the American University Law Review. Cassie also served as a Student Attorney in the Civil Advocacy Clinic, in which she represented individuals in wage theft and unemployment benefits cases; as an intern with the Amica Center for Immigrant Rights, where she defended detained adult immigrants in removal proceedings; and as a judicial intern to Judge Reggie B. Walton of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

Before law school, Cassie worked for several years in non-profit immigration legal services — first with the Border Servant Corps on the U.S.-Mexico border aiding immigrant victims of crime in applying for humanitarian protections, and second with the Immigrant Justice Corps as part of a deportation defense team in Long Island, New York representing Central American asylum-seeking families in immigration court.