Julie A. Werner-Simon 'JAWS' served nearly thirty years as a Federal Prosecutor, both as an Assistant United States Attorney and as a Department of Justice Trial Attorney.
 

During her tenure, she held positions as Deputy Chief of the Organized Crime Strike Force and Senior Litigation Counsel of White Collar Crimes Section in the Central District of California, as well as an Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Alaska, where she prosecuted crimes to include Marine Mammal trafficking, bank robbery and drug crimes and conducted civil litigation primarily against the United States under the Federal Tort Claims Act. Prior to federal service, Werner-Simon was a prosecutor for the State of Alaska in both urban and bush counties where she specialized in sexual assault cases. 

Werner-Simon has an extensive career as a trial advocacy instructor for the National Institute of Trial Advocacy (NITA), and has been a visiting instructor at trial advocacy programs at Harvard Law School, University of Hawaii and UC Hastings College of Trial and Appellate advocacy. She served as a visiting professor of comparative law at the University of Toulouse, France, and as a speaker on American and international law for the United States Information Service (USIS). Werner-Simon's newest national course: Marijuana Law: History, the Constitution & Best Practices.
 

Werner-Simon has written and produced narrative-driven training films on prosecutorial misconduct, victims’ rights, cross-examination, and on appellate litigation for former Attorney General Janet Reno, UC Hastings, and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Werner-Simon is a magna cum laude graduate in political science from Boston University, a JD from the University of Wisconsin, and an LLM in Constitutional Studies from Southwestern Law School.

Werner-Simon lectures nationally and internationally, and provides pro bono legal services for undocumented children through the organization Kids In Need of Defense (KIND).