Heather L Poole

Heather L. Poole is a private attorney specializing in helping immigrants in crisis across the US and those stuck abroad. She has devoted her entire legal career of over two decades to tackling complex family-based immigration and deportation defense cases.

Ms. Poole graduated from New York Law School in 2000 and received her bachelor's degrees in History and Philosophy from Cal Poly Pomona in 1997. She has been a small firm owner for the majority of her career, with remaining years serving as partner and associate at larger immigration firms in the Los Angeles region.

Ms. Poole is a Certified Specialist in Immigration & Nationality Law by the State Bar of California. She is the former Chair of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) Southern California Chapter - the second largest concentration of immigration attorneys in the US and served on the AILA National Board of Governors for five years. Ms. Poole has been repeatedly named a “Super Lawyer” (Superlawyers.com) for excellence in immigration, voted by other attorneys as the top 5% of immigration lawyers in Southern California over the age of 40 and has been selected over 40 times to various top attorney lists. She has trained other attorneys on complex family immigration issues over for national Continuing Legal education providers and private organizations. Ms. Poole is also an internationally published author for more than 30 publications including The Los Angeles Lawyer, Orange County Lawyer, Alaska Bar Rag, and The California International Law Journal.