About Heidi
Heidi Boas studied at Stanford University, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in 1998. She went on to law school at the University of California, Berkeley, receiving her Juris Doctor in 2004. Those academic years set the stage for a legal career that has stayed close to federal process and immigration law.
She began practicing after law school and quickly became active in the professional community. She joined the American Immigration Lawyers Association in 2008 and remains an AILA member. That involvement has kept her connected to developments in immigration policy and practice, as well as a network of colleagues across the country.
Boas is admitted to practice before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. She has experience preparing appellate briefs and presenting legal arguments in federal settings. Appealing decisions and handling appellate procedure have become a regular part of her caseload, alongside other federal filings.
Her career has included work on administrative proceedings and litigation that intersects with federal immigration rules and court review. She has handled matters that require coordination between trial-level advocacy and appellate strategy. The mix of administrative and judicial work means she often moves between different stages of a client's case.
She practices from Wilkes Legal, LLC. At that firm she manages client matters that touch on immigration law and related federal litigation. The office handles filings, hearings, and appeals, and she works with clients at each step. Colleagues describe her as steady in court and thorough in preparing the written record, though she does not seek the spotlight for herself.
Outside of court, Boas participates in professional events and continuing legal education. Her membership in AILA has involved attendance at conferences and meetings where practitioners discuss changes in policy and procedure. Those forums feed directly into the way she prepares cases and plans appeals.
She lives in a practice that blends courtroom work and written advocacy. Her caseload commonly includes administrative immigration matters and federal appeals, and she continues to represent clients through trial-level proceedings and appellate review. Her current practice focuses on immigration matters and appellate litigation in federal courts.
