Biography
Isabel Heine is a Senior Staff Attorney with the Family and Immigration Unit at Bronx Legal Services. Ms. Heine is a 2014 graduate of Seton Hall Law School where she pursued a Concentration in Health Law and was honored for her outstanding contribution to the Immigrants’ Rights and International Human Rights Clinic at Seton Hall’s Center for Social Justice.
Thereafter, Ms. Heine joined Bronx Legal Services. In her practice, Ms. Heine represents the borough’s immigrants, with a focus on survivors of intimate partner violence, in a holistic practice comprised of their family law and immigration law needs. These matters include orders of protection, custody and visitation, and divorce cases, as well as asylum, U/T visas, VAWA self-petitions, SIJS petitions, and many other forms of immigration relief in an affirmative and defensive posture.
Ms. Heine regularly conducts community outreach throughout the Bronx, provides trainings on such topics as Electronic Evidence in New York State Courts and Technology Abuse, and has testified on behalf of Legal Services NYC in hearings before the New York City Council on issues affecting immigrants.