Janelle M. Carter joined the Washington, D.C. office of Mehri & Skalet, PLLC as an associate in March 2008 and focuses her practice primarily on civil rights and consumer law. Ms. Carter is currently litigating several class action and individual matters. She represents homeowners who were defrauded by a foreclosure rescue scam in a series of foreclosure cases and a civil action filed by the District of Columbia. Ms. Carter is litigating several class actions on behalf of employees who were discriminated against in the workplace on the basis of race, and she is involved in negotiating and drafting a pre-litigation settlement agreement, providing for monetary and comprehensive programmatic relief. Ms. Carter also represents Plaintiffs in a consumer class action against mortgage servicer Homecomings Financial, alleging violations of state and federal law by engaging in deceptive business practices.
Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Carter was an associate in the Chicago office of Winston & Strawn LLP. At Winston & Strawn, she practiced complex commercial litigation in various areas of law. Ms. Carter participated in a successful mediation involving a contract dispute and was a member of two trial teams in multi-million dollar patent and securities litigation. She also was active in pro bono matters, including the successful representation of an Egyptian citizen in his application for asylum.
A 2004 graduate of Georgetown University Law Center, Ms. Carter clerked for the Honorable Julian A. Cook of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan.While a law student, Ms. Carter spent her summers as an intern for the Honorable John S. Martin of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York and the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. Ms. Carter is a cum laude graduate of Spelman College, where she received a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science in 2001.
