Sean C. Staples joined Children's Law Center as senior supervising attorney in 2006. He graduated magna cum laude from The Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law in 1996 where he was also a member of the law review. Upon admission to the DC Bar he started a solo practice as a criminal defense attorney in DC Superior Court where he later clerked for Associate Judge Robert E. Morin before becoming an assistant public defender in Fairfax, VA. Immediately prior to joining CLC, he was supervising attorney and adjunct professor in the criminal division of The DC Law Students in Court Program (LSIC). He taught criminal trial practice and procedure at LSIC and supervised law students in the representation of adults and juveniles in DC Superior Court while maintaining his own criminal trial and appellate practice.