Pierce Suen is a Visiting Professor at Georgetown Law, teaching and supervising in the Criminal Justice Clinics. Before joining Georgetown, Suen spent a decade at the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia where he was a supervising attorney. During his time at PDS, Suen tried cases ranging from fare evasion to first-degree murder and represented indigent clients at every level of proceedings—in juvenile, misdemeanor, and felony court, and in direct appeals, parole revocation, and post-conviction relief. Suen is a faculty instructor at Harvard Law School’s Trial Advocacy Workshop and has conducted trainings for the Washington Counsel of Lawyers, the Navy JAG Corps, and the NACDL National Forensic College. Suen is a graduate of NYU Law, where he was a Root-Tilden-Kern scholar, and the University of Chicago.