Dianne Aguirre-Dominguez is an attorney in the Neighborhood Law Corps, part of the City Attorney’s Affirmative Litigation, Innovation & Enforcement Division.

Prior to joining the Neighborhood Law Corps, Diane was an associate attorney at Crowell & Moring LLP (“Crowell”).  During her tenure at Crowell, Diane was the lead associate in a retirement benefits case during the firm’s representation of a public university system.  She also was the lead associate and only Spanish speaker during a trip to South America to prepare Spanish-speaking clients for government interviews in a Foreign Corrupt Practices Act case originating in South America.   Diane’s pro bono work at Crowell included representing asylum seekers in Immigration Court.

Diane graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law in 2020. Diane received her undergraduate degree from University of Houston with a double major in Political Science and English Literature.  During law school, Diane was an intern for the Honorable Alfred Bennett, United States District Court Judge for the Southern District of Texas.  She also interned for the American Civil Liberties Union – Immigrants’ Rights Project in San Francisco where she researched administrative and constitutional law to support ACLU’s challenges to federal immigration policies.  Diane also was a clinic student and research assistant at the Samuelson Law, Technology, & Public Policy Clinic in Berkeley where she assisted in the clinic’s representation of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and she worked for Berkeley Law’s Workers’ Rights Clinic, assisting low-income workers with employment and labor issues.