Dr. Heller had obtained his high school diplo­ma in 1986 as a board­ing stu­dent of the monastery school of Ein­siedeln. The mot­to of this school is:

Toto corde, tota ani­ma, tota virtute

(whole­heart­ed, from the depth of your soul, and with all your strength).

In 1994 Dr. Heller com­plet­ed his law stud­ies at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Zurich with dis­tinc­tion. He devot­ed his first years as a lawyer to teach­ing as a research assis­tant at a chair of law at ETH Zurich. Dr. Heller received his doc­tor­ate in 1999, again with dis­tinc­tion. This was fol­lowed by intern­ships in a law prac­tice and at the court. After being admit­ted to the bar of the Can­ton of Zurich (in 2000), Dr. Heller decid­ed against the offer of a posi­tion in the group legal depart­ment of a major Swiss bank. He want­ed to work as a tra­di­tion­al lawyer. After two edu­ca­tion­al years in one of the largest Swiss com­mer­cial law firms at the time, Dr. Heller became self-employed in 2003: the orig­i­nal “Law Firm Heller” lat­er employed sev­er­al lawyers at times (“Heller Recht­san­wälte AG”).

In 2009 Dr. Heller acquired the title “Cer­ti­fied Spe­cial­ized Attor­ney SBA Employ­ment Law” and in 2017 the title “Cer­ti­fied Spe­cial­ized Attor­ney SBA Fam­i­ly Law”.

Dr. Heller con­sol­i­dates and deep­ens his legal knowl­edge as an author of spe­cial­ist pub­li­ca­tions or as a lecturer.

Dr. Heller has many years of expe­ri­ence as a mem­ber of the board of direc­tors of a tra­di­tion­al com­pa­ny in East­ern Switzer­land with around 230 employees.

Dr. Heller is reg­is­tered in the Attor­neys’ Reg­is­ter of the Can­ton of Zurich and is a mem­ber of the Zurich and Swiss Bar Associations.

As a found­ing mem­ber of the Lions Club Zürich-Air­port (2012/2013: Pres­i­dent), Dr. Heller head­ed lions think, the think tank of Lions Inter­na­tion­al Switzer­land, from 2009 to 2014.

In mil­i­tary terms, Dr. Heller held the rank of cap­tain and was a com­pa­ny com­man­der of the moun­tain infantry.