Heather Barbieri is a Board Certified Criminal Defense Lawyer and the Founding Attorney of Barbieri Law Firm, P.C. She has more than 20 years of experience representing people facing serious state and federal criminal allegations. Ms. Barbieri was licensed in 1998 and became a board-certified criminal law specialist by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization in 2005. She has maintained her board certification for 15 years since that time.
Ms. Barbieri was named to the list of Texas SuperLawyers® every single year since 2013, a peer-voted honor given to only about 5% of the lawyers in the state of Texas. Before that, she was on the list for the Rising Stars for 2011 and 2012. Each year, starting in 2014, Ms. Barbieri has received the special honor of being named by Texas Monthly Top Women Lawyers in Texas.
Heather will be sworn in as the President of the Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, the largest state association for criminal defense attorneys in the nation.
Bar Admissions
- State Bar of Texas, 1998
- U.S. District Court Northern District of Texas, 1999
- U.S. District Court Eastern District of Texas, 2000
- Fifth Circuit Federal Court of Appeals, 2016
- United States Supreme Court, 2018
Board Certification
Board Certified in Criminal Law, Texas Board of Legal Specialization 2005, recertified 2010, 2015, 2020
Professional Associations and Memberships
- President, Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, 2022-2023
- Vice-President, Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, 2020 – 2021
- Second Vice-President, Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, 2019 – 2020
- Treasurer, Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, 2018-19
- Secretary, Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, 2017-18
- Board Member, Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, 2012 - 2019
- Member, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, 2012 – present
- President, Collin County Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, 2009
- TCDLA (TCDLA), Chair, Criminal Defense Lawyers Project, 2017 to 2018
- National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Member
- Fellow, Texas Bar Foundation
- Fellow, Honorable Curt B. Henderson, Inn of Courts
- Executive Committee Member, Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, 2017- Present
- Nominating Committee, Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association
Honors & Awards
- Percy Foreman Lawyer of the Year, awarded at TCDLA’s Annual Rusty Duncan Advanced Criminal Defense Seminar, 2015
- Super Lawyer, Texas Monthly, 2013 – Present
- Rising Star, Texas Monthly, 2011, 2012
- 10-rated, AVVO, Legal Ratings 2010 – Present
- Dallas Bar Association’s Award for Best Series of Articles—Criminal Law
- The National Trial Lawyers Top 40 under 40 Lawyers, 2012
- Top Women Lawyers in Texas, Texas Monthly, 2019-Present
- Top Attorney Award, Attorney.com, 2019
- Top Lawyers in North Texas, Frisco Style, 2022
- Three Best Rated, selected to the list for top three best criminal defense lawyers in Plano, Texas
- Elite Lawyers, 2019
- Best Lawyers in Dallas, D Magazine, 2022
- National Association of Distinguished Counsel’s Top One Percent, 2021- Present
