Michelle Li

Partner

Thompson Hine, LLP

Michelle is a partner in the International Trade practice group. She focuses her practice on assisting clients in a wide range of industries with trade remedy proceedings.

Michelle’s experience includes representing producers of softwood lumber, frozen warmwater shrimp, glycine, and organic soybean meal before the U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. International Trade Commission, U.S. Court of International Trade, and U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. She also advises on import entry clearance and other Customs and importation issues involving food, drug, medical, and tobacco products regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and consumer products regulated by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. Michelle has also represented clients in trade enforcement and anti-circumvention proceedings before U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Section 337 investigations before the U.S. International Trade Commission.

Michelle has extensive experience counseling and representing clients from the e-cigarette industry on a wide variety of issues.

Prior to entering private practice, Michelle served as a judicial intern to the Honorable Robert L. Wilkins of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, and as a judicial intern to the Clerk of the Court of the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas.

Michelle is fluent in Mandarin Chinese and Cantonese.