Charlotte Vida Baigent

Charlotte Baigent maintains a wide-ranging litigation practice at Holwell Shuster & Goldberg, representing plaintiffs and defendants in high-stakes commercial litigation, appeals, and arbitrations.

Charlotte has litigated cases in federal and state courts at all levels across the country. She has experience on leanly staffed trial teams, including prosecuting a trade secret case against The Boeing Company in the Western District of Washington and co-defending an insurance case arising from the Jay Peak Ponzi scheme in the Southern District of Florida. Charlotte has co-authored and filed briefs in the U.S. Supreme Court, including on behalf of a petitioner seeking certiorari and amicus curiae at the merits stage. Drawing on her experience in the U.S. and Canada, Charlotte advises clients on complex cross-border disputes and has taken or defended over a dozen depositions as first or second chair across North America. She also advises international clients on treaties, arbitral rules, and the recognition and enforcement of foreign awards. Her successes have been recognized in Law360 ’s Legal Lions column and in The American Lawyer ’s Litigator of the Week column.

In her pro bono practice, Charlotte is currently representing a criminal defendant on appeal in New York state court, as well as amicus curiae in litigation concerning access to abortion care across the country, including in the U.S. Supreme Court, the Fifth Circuit, and the Iowa Supreme Court. She also played a significant role on the HSG teams that prosecuted two groundbreaking civil rights cases in partnership with the ACLU leading to successful settlements, including a challenge to Frontier Airlines’ policies toward pregnant and breastfeeding pilots under the Civil Rights Act in the District of Colorado, and a § 1983 claim against police for excessive force in arresting a black man with a preexisting condition in the Eastern District of Louisiana.