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About Attorney Heidi L. De la Rosa

Board Member
Lakewood-Trumbull YMCA
Hobbies Include
Baking and Fitness
Family Game Night
Current Champ
Fun Fact
Once employed as a Forensic Scientist for New Jersey State Police

Board Member

Lakewood-Trumbull YMCA

Hobbies Include

Baking and Fitness

Family Game Night

Current Champ

Fun Fact

Once employed as a Forensic Scientist for New Jersey State Police

Heidi L. De la Rosa is a seasoned attorney with extensive experience representing clients in all aspects of matrimonial and family law including divorce, alimony and child support, property distribution, and child custody matters.  Attorney De la Rosa has exclusively practiced family law since joining the McConnell Family Law Group in 2016.  She is a certified divorce mediator.

Heidi began her legal career at Wiggin and Dana, LLP one of the region’s largest and most prestigious law firms.  She earned her J.D. from the University of Connecticut School of Law where she graduated #5 in her class and received numerous academic awards and honors.  While in law school she clerked for the Honorable Peter Dorsey, U.S. District Court Judge for the District of Connecticut.  More importantly, Heidi is the mother of three boys and prior to joining the McConnell Family Law Group, Heidi was a very busy stay-at-home parent for eleven years.

A native of Bridgeport, Connecticut Heidi now resides with her family in Trumbull, Connecticut. She is very active in this community; serving as a board member of the Lakewood-Trumbull YMCA and staying involved in the high school marching band and wrestling leagues where her sons compete.  Attorney De la Rosa is a member of the Connecticut Council for Non-Adversarial Divorce (CCND) as well as the Family Law Section of the Connecticut Bar Association.

Education

  • UCONN School of Law, Juris Doctor (JD), with High Honors
  • John Jay College of Criminal Justice, M.S. in Forensic Science
  • Fairfield University, B.S. in Biology

Bar Admissions

  • Connecticut

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