LAURA J. BERLOWE-HEINISH
Ms. Berlowe Heinish is a native of Miami, Florida. She attended the prestigious Performing and Visual Arts Center, now known as the New World School of the Arts, for high school, and was accepted one and one-half years early into the University of Miami School of Music Vocal Performance degree program. In addition to attending the school on scholarship, she was elected to membership in Sigma Alpha Iota, the University of Miami’s honorary music fraternity. Due to her excellence in opera performance, she earned one of only six roles, Despina, in the school’s full orchestral production of Mozart’s “Cosi Fan Tutti” for her senior year. Ms. Berlowe-Heinish was also privileged to obtain entry by audition into a prestigious summer training program, where she received personal instruction from Metropolitan Opera performers Eleanor Steber and Mignon Dunn. Although Ms. Berlowe-Heinish was then accepted into the prestigious Manus Conservatory in New York in 1988, she elected to pursue a different route.
Ms. Berlowe-Heinish went on to earn a Master of Science in Mental Health Counseling from Nova University. During that time, she completed two internships at the Academy for Community Education in Coral Gables, then one of a handful of alternative schools for at-risk junior high and high school students. She simultaneously managed the Miami Chamber Symphony in Coral Gables and was awarded as the most active new member of the Coconut Grove Junior Chamber of Commerce. After earning her Master’s degree, Ms. Berlowe-Heinish decided to attend law school with the hope of specializing in family law.
Ms. Berlowe-Heinish was accepted to the University of Miami School of Law in 1994. While there she was earned membership to the Entertainment and Sports Law Review and earned the book award for Civil and Political Rights. Moreover, she was elected to membership in the honorary legal fraternity, Phi Delta Phi. During law school, Ms. Berlowe-Heinish was accepted as an intern for the Department of Veterans Affairs Tort Division in Washington, D.C. and accepted as a law clerk in Miami Dade Criminal Circuit Court for the Honorable Alan Gold, now a judge for the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida. During her clerkship, Ms. Berlowe-Heinish was instrumental in providing research for Judge Gold’s opinion in the high profile case of Dieter Reichmann, a German tourist who plotted to kill his girlfriend and attempt to make it appear as one of part of a rash of tourist robberies that were occurring in Miami at the time. Ms. Berlowe-Heinish graduated from the University of Miami School of Law cum laude in 1997. She began practicing as an associate in family, appellate, and general civil law with the Law Office of Guillermo F. Mascaro, P.A. immediately upon graduation. Ms. Berlowe-Heinish began working for Entin, Margules & Della Fera, P.A. in 2000, and continues to work for the newly formed Entin & Della Fera, P.A. today.
Ms. Berlowe-Heinish’s published opinions include Amador v. Amador, 728 So.2d 1209 (3rd DCA 1999); In re Marriage of Punales, 2004 WL 1058192 (Fla. 4th DCA 2004); In re One Hundred Fifty-Hine Thousand Seven Hundred Sixty-One Dollars v. Office of the A.G. (Fla. 4th DCA 2001), and Garcia v. Still, 743 So.2d 522 (Fla. 3rd DCA). She was admitted to the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida in 2001.
