Scholar Profile

Won Shin

Law

Biography

Won S. Shin is Of Counsel in the Litigation Department of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz.

Before rejoining the firm, Won served for nearly a decade in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, including as Chief of Appeals for the Criminal Division. In that role, he supervised the office's criminal practice in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, counseled senior leadership on complex legal and policy matters, and advised other prosecutors on legal issues arising in their cases. He was previously a member of the office’s Complex Frauds and Cybercrime Unit. For his work at the office, he received the FinCEN Director's Law Enforcement Award for Cyber Threats and the Society of Asian Federal Officers' Prosecutor of the Year Award.

Prior to joining the U.S. Attorney's Office, Won was an Assistant Solicitor General in the New York Attorney General's Office, where he briefed and argued cases in the Second Circuit and New York state appellate courts.

Before entering public service, Won was a litigation associate at Wachtell, Lipton and in the appellate practice of 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.

Won 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 was a business analyst at McKinsey & Company.

Won has taught legal writing at Harvard Law School and Columbia Law School. He has served on the board of directors of the Asian American Bar Association of New York.

Won lives in Manhattan with his wife, Grace Lee, and their son, Teddy.

High school:  Francis Lewis High School

Degrees

News and Highlights

03/12/2005 Won Shin (MS '96)

Court of Scholarly Appeal: Without objection, congratulations are in order for Won Shin, MS ‘96, who has recently joined the New York State Attorney General's Office as an Assistant Solicitor General.