Dina Bernardelli, Esq.

Dina’s practice focuses on all areas of insurance defense, including construction defect, employment and personal injury law, as well as insurance coverage analysis and bad faith litigation. She has represented clients in court at the trial and appellate levels.

Dina is an alumna of the Office of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands. She earned her J.D. at Boston College Law School where she was a contributing editor on the executive board of the Boston College International and Comparative Law Review, a member of the regional champion Jessup International Moot Court Team, and a student attorney at the Boston College Legal Assistant Bureau. She attended college at the University of Notre Dame where she spent a semester abroad at John Cabot University in Rome, Italy.

When she is not in the office, Dina, a Colorado native, enjoys skiing, travel, and rooting for the Fighting Irish.

Publications & Presentations

“Insurance and Bad Faith: Contractual Indemnification and the Unique Concerns Presented by Additional Insureds,” The International Society of Primerus Law Firms Bad Faith Insurance Seminar (2012); “The U.S. Approach to Bad Faith Denial of Coverage and Key Points of Formal Discovery in Federal Courts,” ABA (2011)

“Russian Rule-ette: Using Khodorkovsky’s Criminal Trial to Assess the State of Russia’s Judiciary,” 31 BC Int. & Comp. L.R. 85 (2008); “Modern Judicial Reform in El Salvador and Brazil,” Law and Justice in the Americas Series, http://lawdigitalcommons.bc.edu/ljawps/3(January 24, 2008).

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