Criminal Defense
Pedro Bernal Bilse
Principal Attorney, Bernal Law, APLC · San Diego, CA
Pedro Bernal Bilse is a criminal defense attorney in San Diego, California, and the principal of Bernal Law, APLC. A former state and federal prosecutor, he represents clients in state and federal criminal matters.
Pedro Bernal Bilse is the principal attorney of Bernal Law, APLC, a criminal defense firm in downtown San Diego. He was admitted to the State Bar of California on October 23, 2012, holds bar number 284444, and is an active licensee in good standing [1]. Before opening his own practice in 2016, Bernal spent nearly a decade as a prosecutor. He served as a Deputy District Attorney in the San Diego District Attorney's Office from 2012 to 2016, where he prosecuted white-collar matters including insurance fraud and tax offenses, and as a Special Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of California from 2015 to 2016. Earlier he was an Assistant Attorney General in the Washington State Attorney General's Office in Seattle from 2007 to 2012 [2]. He has tried dozens of jury trials to verdict and now represents clients facing state and federal charges involving drug crimes, DUI, fraud, domestic violence, theft, and homicide. Since 2017 he has served as an adjunct professor at California Western School of Law, teaching trial advocacy and legal writing, and he has lectured in the United States, Mexico, Argentina, Chile, and Peru on criminal tax prosecutions and trial advocacy [2]. Bernal is fully bilingual and assists Spanish-speaking clients. He earned his Juris Doctor from The John Marshall Law School in Chicago in 2007 and a Bachelor of Science from Suffolk University in 2004 [2]. He is listed in the Super Lawyers directory [3].
Recognition
- Super Lawyers — Super Lawyers [3]
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