Heather Barbieri

Heather Barbieri

Attorney
Location:
Plano, Texas
Phone:
469-300-1522
Fax:
972-208-2100 (Fax)
Email:
Email Me

Areas of Practice

  • Criminal Defense

Certified Legal Specialties

  • Certified Criminal Law Specialist, Texas Board of Legal Specialization, 2005

Bar Admissions

  • Texas, 1998
  • U.S. District Court Eastern District of Texas, 2000
  • U.S. District Court Northern District of Texas, 1999

Published Works

  • Defending A Continuous Sexual Assault of a Child Case In Texas
  • Ethics for the Criminal Defense Lawyer
  • Addendum Application for Community Supervision from Jury
  • Instructions For Testifying

Classes/Seminars

  • Faculty Member, Trial Lawyers College, 2017 - Present
  • Faculty, Opening Statement, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Trial Lawyers College, 2018
  • Faculty, Discovering the Story, Hunt, Texas, Trial Lawyers College, 2018
  • Faculty, Trial College, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, Trial Lawyers College, 2018
  • Course Director, Unleashing Your Inner Beast, Waco, Texas, TCDLA, 2018
  • Course Director, Unleashing Your Inner Beast, Salado, Texas, 2018
  • Course Director, Unleashing Your Inner Beast, Longview, Texas, 2018
  • Course Director, Unleashing Your Inner Beast, Galveston, Texas, 2018
  • Course Director, Unleashing Your Inner Beast, South Padre Island, Texas, 2018
  • Course Director, Story Exploration Through Psychodrama, Round Top, Texas, 2017-2018
  • Course Director, Beating the Drum for Justice, Tyler, Texas, TCDLA’s CDLP, 2017
  • Course Director, Annual Rusty Duncan Advanced Criminal Defense Seminar, San Antonio, Texas, 2014-2016
  • Course Director, Defending Those Accused of Sexual Assault, Austin, Texas, 2016
  • Course Director, Beating the Drum for Justice, Fredericksburg, Texas, TCDLA’s CDLP, 2016
  • Course Director, Criminal Defense Seminar, McKinney, Texas, TCDLA
  • Course Director, Criminal Defense Seminar, McKinney, Texas, CCCDLA
  • Faculty, Trial Lawyers College, Opening Statement Seminar, Newport Beach, CA, 2017
  • Faculty, Trial Lawyers College, 3-week College, Dubois, Wyoming, September 2016
  • Faculty, Criminal Trial College, TCDLA, 2011-2017
  • Faculty, Center for American and International Law, Criminal Defense Trial Skills, and Trial Law Program, 2009-2018
  • Lecturer, TCDLA’s Annual Tim Evans Texas Criminal Trial Lawyers College, Huntsville, Texas, 2012-2018
  • Lecturer, TCDLA’s Anatomy of a Criminal Trial, Pre-Trial Investigation, Houston, Texas, 2018
  • Speaker, State Bar of Texas, Advanced Criminal Law Seminar Experts in Sex Crimes, Houston, Texas 2017
  • Lecturer, TCDLA’s Annual Rusty Duncan Advanced Criminal Defense Seminar Sexual Assault-Cover to Cover, San Antonio, Texas, 2016
  • Lecturer, Maine Criminal Defense Lawyers Association Sexual Assault Defense, Bridgeport, Maine, 2016
  • Lecturer, Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association’s Annual Prairie Dog Seminar, Jury Selection in Child Sexual Assault Cases, January, 2015-2016
  • Lecturer, Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association Seminar, Defending Those Accuse of Sexual Assault Ethics in Sexual Abuse Cases, 2014
  • Lecturer, Center for American and International Law, Closing Argument: Delivering the Message, Criminal Defense Trial Skills and Trial Law Program, 2010-2018
  • Lecturer, TCDLA’s Annual Rusty Duncan Advanced Criminal Defense Seminar, Use of Psychodrama in the Courtroom, San Antonio, Texas, 2014
  • Lecturer, TCDLA’s Annual Rusty Duncan Criminal Defense Seminar, Women in the Law, San Antonio, Texas, 2013
  • Lecturer, TCDLA’s Punishment Seminar, Probation, 2013
  • Lecturer, TCDLA’s Ethics in the Courtroom, traveling seminars; Waco, Granbury, 2012-2013
  • Lecturer, TCDLA’s Jury Selection, traveling seminars; Tyler, South Padre Island, 2012-2014
  • Lecturer, TCDLA’s Teaching the Defense Team, Fredericksburg, 2013-2014

Honors and Awards

  • Rating of 10.0 Superb, Avvo
  • Trial Lawyer of the Year, Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, 2015
  • Super Lawyer, Texas Monthly Magazine, 2013 - 2018
  • Super Lawyers Rising Stars, Texas Monthly Magazine, 2011 - 2012
  • Fellow, Texas Bar Foundation
  • Fellow, Honorable Curt B. Henderson, Inn of Courts

Professional Associations and Memberships

  • Texas Criminal Defense Lawyer’s Association (TCDLA), Executive Committee, Member, 2017 - Present
  • Texas Criminal Defense Lawyer’s Association (TCDLA), Elected Treasurer, sworn in, and serving, 2018 - 2019
  • Texas Criminal Defense Lawyer’s Association (TCDLA), Elected Secretary, sworn in, and served, 2017 - 2018
  • Texas Criminal Defense Lawyer’s Association (TCDLA), Chair, Criminal Defense Lawyers Project, 2017 - 2018
  • Collin County Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, President, 2009
  • Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, Board Member, 2012 - Present
  • National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Member
  • Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, Nominating Committee