About Julie Heiden

Julie H. Heiden is a Virginia and D.C. injury attorney and partner at Koonz McKenney Johnson & DePaolis LLP, where she represents clients in personal injury, product liability, social security, and workers' compensation cases across Washington D.C. and Virginia. Originally from California, she came to the Washington D.C. area to study law. She represents over 400 individuals and has expertly litigated personal injury cases throughout the Fairfax region for nearly two decades. At George Mason University School of Law, she served as Editor-in-Chief of the Civil Rights Law Journal.

Proven verdicts and settlements at Koonz McKenney Johnson & DePaolis LLP

These results are credited to Koonz McKenney Johnson & DePaolis LLP. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.

Charles Kapar, a U.S. aid agency auditor, was beaten and tortured during the December 1984 hijacking of a Kuwait Airways jet to Tehran. In September 2004 the federal court in Washington entered a $13.5 million default judgment against Iran and its Ministry of Information and Security under the state-sponsored terrorism exception to the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act. Iran never appeared. In 2015 the court authorized attachment of Iranian property to collect the unpaid balance.

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia · 2004Civil RightsRead the full story →
$2 millionVerdictTop 10 of 2000 · #9

A District of Columbia jury awarded $2 million to a hardware store customer who suffered a subdural hematoma and emergency brain surgery after a Hechinger employee assaulted him, and the D.C. Court of Appeals affirmed the verdict in full.

Washington, D.C. (Superior Court; aff'd D.C. Court of Appeals) · 2000Premises LiabilityRead the full story →
$1.53 millionVerdict

A Washington, D.C. jury awarded $3.05 million against a pediatrician who failed to send a feverish child for emergency care before an invasive Group A strep infection and toxic shock cost him both legs, and the trial court entered a net judgment of $1,525,000 after the hospital's pro rata settlement credit.

Washington, D.C. (Superior Court; aff'd D.C. Court of Appeals) · 2009Medical MalpracticeRead the full story →
Settlement

The family of a construction superintendent fatally burned when an underground steam pipe ruptured in downtown Washington in 2004 settled their wrongful death case confidentially with the federal government, D.C. Water, and the contractors named in the suit.

Washington, D.C. (U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia) · 2014Wrongful DeathRead the full story →

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Practice areas

Education

George Mason University School of Law
J.D., 1992
Shepherd College
Undergraduate, 1988

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Virginia, admitted 1992
State Bar of District of Columbia, admitted 1994
State Bar of Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals
State Bar of Eastern District of Virginia
State Bar of Western District of Virginia
State Bar of Superior Court for the District of Columbia
Association for Justice
District of Columbia Bar
Virginia State Bar
Fairfax Bar Association (former President and Treasurer)

Awards & recognition

AV Preeminent Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review Rating (2025)
Cambridge Who's Who Excellence in Legal Services (2009)

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