Heather A. McConnell is a partner in the Los Angeles office of Lewis Brisbois and a member of the General Liability Practice. She is a complex business litigator with over twenty-five years of experience litigating in state and federal courts throughout the United States. Her areas of practice include commercial, financial services, professional malpractice, intellectual property, employment discrimination, title insurance, personal injury, premises liability, and other legal disputes. Ms. McConnell handles all aspects of litigation from inception to trial, as well as alternative dispute resolution proceedings, including mediation and arbitration, with a practical, business-minded view, focused on developing legal strategies to efficiently achieve business goals while minimizing risks to clients.

Ms. McConnell served as an Adjunct Professor at Loyola Law School, teaching a class in Civil Discovery. She has also worked on numerous pro bono matters seeking asylum in immigration courts on behalf of victims of drug cartel violence in Mexico and filing appeals of denied asylum applications.

Admissions

• State Bar Admissions
  • California
  • Texas
• United States District Courts
  • United States District Court for the Central District of California
  • United States District Court for the Eastern District of California
  • United States District Court for the Northern District of California
  • United States District Court for the Southern District of California
• United States Courts of Appeals
  • United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

Associations

• State Bar of California
• State Bar of Texas
• Los Angeles County Bar Association

Education

University of California, Irvine

Bachelor of Arts, 1993

Loyola Law School

Juris Doctor, cum laude, 1996

• Staff Member and Articles Editor for the Loyola Law Review
• Order of the Coif
• Sayre Macneil Scholar