ina’s experience is drawn from diverse areas of litigation practice. At Boston College she worked at the Boston College Legal Aid Bureau managing her own cases in housing law, family law and Social Security law from intake to close. Dina was always a favorite of her clients, and as a student attorney with the BC Legal Aid Bureau, she successfully argued the applicability of the Massachusetts Condominium Conversion Law to her low income client in the face of more recent state legislation before the Massachusetts Court of Appeals.
Dina also clerked for the Office of the Prosecutor in the United Nations International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands. At the ICTY, Dina worked on one of the largest prosecution cases in the history of the tribunal, Popović, et al, in which seven Serbian commanding officers are being tried for genocide and crimes against humanity in and near Srebrenica, Bosnia. She performed in depth research for precedent setting rulings on the admissibility of witnesses, testimony, and other evidence in international criminal tribunals and assisted in drafting the closing brief for the prosecution in this case.
Dina is a Colorado native who attended college at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, IN where she earned a Bachelor of Arts double-majoring in Political Science with a focus on International Relations and Post Communist Politics and Italian. Dina spent a semester studying abroad at John Cabot University in Rome, Italy, where she became fluent in Italian. She enjoys returning frequently to visit family and friends there.
In May, 2008, Dina earned her JD at Boston College Law School in Chestnut Hill, MA where she was a contributing editor on the executive board of the Boston College International and Comparative Law Review. Dina was also a member of the successful Jessup International Moot Court Team which went on to compete in the International Competition hosted by Sherman & Sterling in Washington, D.C. Dina was also active in community service through Grads Give Back Day, conflict resolution counseling, and the Juvenile Rights Advocacy Project. Additionally, she was the Vice President and Co-founder of the Boston College Italian American Law Students Association. Dina has published two legal papers: Russian Rule-ette: Using Khodorkovsky’s Criminal Trial to Assess the State of Russia’s Judiciary, 31 BC Int.&Comp.L.R. 85 (2008) and Modern Judicial Reform in El Salvador and Brazil, Law and Justice in the Americas Series, http://lsr.nellco.org/bc/ljawps/papers/3/ (January 24, 2008).
When Dina is not in the office, she enjoys camping, skiing, rooting on the Fighting Irish, music and travel. She is an accomplished violinist whose travels have taken her across Europe and the Balkans who enjoys experiencing new cultures and dabbling in the native language of the land.