Diana Marie Carlino

Diana M. Carlino has been practicing civil litigation since 2009. Since 2013, she has focused her practice on the defense of health care providers in a variety of litigation and administrative matters, and in general liability law.

She is admitted to practice in the State and Federal Courts of Connecticut and New York, and the United States Supreme Court. She has tried cases in the State of Connecticut, and the United States District Courts for the District of Colorado and Southern District of New York. Attorney Carlino is proud to work with her clients from discovery through appeal. She has argued cases in the New York State Appellate Division, the Connecticut Court of Appeals and the Connecticut Supreme Court. Additionally, Attorney Carlino has represented clients in administrative hearings and at mediation.

Attorney Carlino has been recognized among America’s Top 100 Civil Defense Litigators® and a Connecticut SuperLawyer® “Rising Star” for 2017-2019.

Attorney Carlino is a Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America, a trial lawyer honorary society composed of less than one-half of one percent of American lawyers, a Member of its Trial Law and Diversity Law Institutes, and Barrister, Order of Veritas and Order of Certus. She is also a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, a global honorary society of attorneys, judges, law faculty and legal scholars whose careers have demonstrated outstanding dedication to the highest principles of the legal profession and of the welfare of their communities, whose membership is limited to one percent of lawyers licensed in each jurisdiction.

In addition to the previously mentioned professional associations, Attorney Carlino is also a member of the New York State Bar Association and Connecticut Bar Association, where she was elected twice by her peers in Stamford, Darien and New Canaan, Connectict as a Delegate to the CBA. She also participates as a “Judge” in High School Mock Trial Competitions arranged by Civics First.

Attorney Carlino is active in her hometown of Redding, CT, where she sits on the Board of Selectmen. Diana has served as the Chair of the Democratic Town Committee, as an Alternate on the Zoning Commission, as a Trail Tender for the Redding Land Trust, and on the Mark Twain Library Programming Committee. On the weekends she enjoys volunteering with Vermont Adaptive, teaching people with cognitive, developmental, physical and emotional disabilities how to ski.