ina’s practice at The Hustead Law Firm has focused on complex, multi-party construction defect issues and personal injury matters. She has extensive deposition and mediation experience, and her creativity in settlement negotiations helps resolve her clients’ cases for less.
Dina has represented many levels of clients in the construction industry from small sub-contractors to general contractors on both residential and large commercial construction projects, as well as government construction projects. Many of these cases have involved the interrelated responsibilities and liability of design professionals such as architects and engineers. Her work in personal injury has focused on premises liability issues, including representing landowner clients with complex title issues and providing detailed financial and occupational assessment of plaintiffs to the client.
Prior to joining The Hustead Law Firm, Dina worked at the Boston College Legal Aid Bureau managing her own cases in housing law, family law and Social Security law. She also clerked for the Office of the Prosecutor in the United Nations International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands, performing 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 one of the largest genocide cases in the history of the tribunal, Popović, et al.
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 and a member of the regional champion Jessup International Moot Court Team. She 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, and spent a semester abroad at John Cabot University in Rome, Italy.
When is not in the office, Dina, a Colorado native, enjoys skiing, camping, rooting on the Fighting Irish, travel, and playing the violin.
Publications: 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://lawdigitalcommons.bc.edu/ljawps/3 (January 24, 2008).
