Shira M. Diner

Biography

Shira Diner is a Lecturer and Clinical Instructor in the Defender Clinic at Boston University School of Law. Prior to her work at BU, she was the Director of Associate Development and Recruitment at Todd & Weld LLP. Previously, she served as a public defender with the Committee for Public Counsel Services (CPCS) for 17 years, and most recently, she worked as the supervising attorney in the Criminal Defense Training Unit where she helped coordinate and provide training for CPCS staff attorneys and bar advocates. Ms. Diner worked as a CPCS staff attorney in the Barnstable and then the Boston Superior Court Offices. She also completed a clerkship with the Massachusetts Superior Court. In 2016, she was appointed by Governor Charlie Baker to the Massachusetts Sentencing Commission. She is a member of the Massachusetts Legislature’s Bail Reform Special Commission. She serves on the board of the Massachusetts Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and is the organizations current president. She served as an adjunct clinical professor of law at Suffolk University Law School, having created and run the school’s Innocence Clinic. Ms. Diner is a graduate of the National Criminal Defense College and Northeastern University School of Law.