Richard Hein is the Principal and Managing Partner of Hein Law Firm, an International Commercial Immigration Law Firm in Missouri, USA. With office extensions in Mexico City through the Firm NDA Nájera Danieli & Asociados, in Bogotá, Colombia, in Sydney, Australia, and in Madrid, Spain, for which Mr. Hein serves a US Counsel, its affiliation with the Buenos Aires, Argentina Firm, Estudio Jurídico Traboulsi & Asociados, and Mr. Hein’s Board Membership as Secretary of the prestigious International Law Firms, a cooperating, international organization comprised of highly regarded law firms with member firms in more than 70 cities and 50 countries worldwide, Hein Law Firm is particularly well-positioned to provide legal services on a global basis with an emphasis on Latin America. He is likewise the Vice President of the Hispanic Bar Association of St. Louis, and a Member of the Planning Committee for the Solo and Small Firm Division of the Missouri Bar. The Missouri Supreme Court also named him to its Committe on Language Access, which develops guidelines and establishes measures to ensure fairness and equality under the law with respect to access to the Courts with those with limited or no English skills.
Mr. Hein regularly provides legal and political analysis and commentary on NTN24 (South America's CNN), TeLoCuento News (Caracas), and CableNoticias (Bogotá), and has been interviewed several times on CNN en Español, Voice of America, Radio France International, Deutsche Welle (the BBC of Germany), Univisión, El Clarín (Argentina), CiudadRadio Buenos Aires, ActualidadRadio Miami, as well as on other various radio and television news and political programs on domestic themes of international interest and import.
Mr. Hein is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Pre-Law Program at Saint Louis University, taught law at the Universidad Centroamericana José Simeón Cañas Law School in San Salvador, El Salvador, and has been an invited lecturer in International Affairs at the Universidad Abierta Interamericana in Buenos Aires, Argentina, as well as the Universidad Blas Pascal in Córdoba, Argentina Mr. Hein also studied law at the Centro de Estudios Universitarios at the Colegio de San Pablo, and served as a law clerk to one of the leading law firms in Europe, J. & B. Cremades& Associates, both in Madrid, Spain. Mr. Hein previously chaired the appellate group for one of the largest law Firms in the St. Louis metropolitan area.
He is licensed in the United States Supreme Court, the Eighth Circuit Federal Court of Appeals and the Missouri State Supreme Court. He is also a member of the Federal District Court of Eastern Missouri.
Mr. Hein earned his law degree from Saint Louis University School of Law as the youngest member of his graduating class in 1994. He also received his undergraduate degree in History, magna cum laude, from Saint Louis University in 1991. Mr. Hein was born and raised in St. Louis, and graduated from the St. Louis Priory High School.