Won S. Shin is an Assistant United States Attorney at the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, where he serves as Chief of Appeals of the Criminal Division. In that role, Mr. Shin oversees briefing and argument in criminal appeals in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and advises other prosecutors on legal issues arising in their investigations and prosecutions. He was previously a member of the office’s Complex Frauds and Cybercrime Unit and is a recipient of the FinCEN Director’s Law Enforcement Award for Cyber Threats.

Prior to joining the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Mr. Shin was an Assistant Solicitor General at the New York State Attorney General’s Office, where he briefed and argued appeals on behalf of the state in the Second Circuit and New York state appellate courts. Before entering public service, he was a litigation associate at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz in New York and Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld in Washington, DC. He began his legal career as a law clerk to the Honorable Karen Nelson Moore of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.

Mr. Shin received his A.B., magna cum laude, in biochemical sciences from Harvard College, and his J.D., magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School. Prior to law school, he worked as a business analyst at McKinsey & Company. Mr. Shin has taught legal writing at Harvard Law School and Columbia Law School. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Asian American Bar Association of New York and has been active in its Judiciary Committee and Prosecutors Committee. He is also a member of the Federal Bar Council’s Inn of Court and the Korean American Lawyers Association of Greater New York.