About Heena
Heena Patel earned her undergraduate degree from the University of California, San Diego in 2003, the place she studied sociology and regulation and society. She went on to Southwestern University School of Law and completed her J.D. in 2007. Those years framed an early curiosity in public defense and issues affecting younger people and families.
Her legal background started in a collection of internships and clerkships that positioned her in public defender environments. During law program she interned at McCarthy and Holthus LLP and the Law Office of Swati Desai. She served as a regulation clerk for the Los Angeles County Public Defender’s office in 2005 and later worked as a legal intern on the Law Office of Seki, Nishimura & Watase in 2006. After graduating, she joined the Los Angeles County Public Defender as a deputy public defender in 2007.
Patel moved from the general public defender’s office into private practice in 2015 when she opened the Law Office of Heena Patel. She later served as an independent juvenile defender for the Los Angeles County Bar Association in 2019. Her career trail indicates continuous work inside systems that handle juvenile and criminal things, and it reflects sustained court exposure from early in her professional life.
She holds memberships in a number of expert organizations. She has served at the board of the South East Asian Bar Association since 2010. She additionally keeps memberships in the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and the California Public Defenders Association, both listed as ongoing since 2010. These affiliations align with the kind of public protection work that has marked much of her profession.
Today she is the principal proprietor of the Law Office of Heena Patel, operating workplaces in Diamond Bar and Santa Ana. Her practice continues to manage juvenile defense and felony matters that arose from her years as a deputy public defender and as an impartial juvenile defender. She takes on cases throughout California and manages a tradition that balances court work with client counseling and case preparation.
She presently maintains the Law Office of Heena Patel and focuses her practice on juvenile and criminal defense things.
