Doira Diaz-Rivera is a Partner of the Environmental and Land Use Practice Group. She is also a member of the Firm's Trusts and Estates Practice Area and the Health Care Practice Area.
She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, cum laude, in May 1998 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in both European History and Spanish Literature, and obtained a Juris Doctor degree from Fordham University School of Law in May 2001. While at Fordham, Ms. Diaz was a court-appointed mediator at the Bronx County Family Court, an intern at the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund, and a teaching assistant in the Welfare Rights Clinic. Her commitment and hard work earned her Fordham's Archibald Murray Award for Public Service.
Ms. Diaz joined the firm first as a summer associate in 1999 and 2000. During the fall of 2000, she was a student law clerk for the Hon. James C. Francis IV of the Southern District of New York.
Ms. Diaz is admitted to practice in the Commonwealth of the Puerto Rico and the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. She is fluent in English and Spanish and has working knowledge of French and Italian.