Site
Web

Diana S. Diskin
Associate

Admissions

State Bar of California - 2007
Federal Court, Central District of California - 2007

Education

Southwestern University School of Law, Los Angeles, CA - Juris Doctorate - 2007
Paul Wildman Scholarship - 2004-05; 2006-07
University of Southern California - Ph.D. Music History - 2004
Fulbright Research Fellowship (Germany) - 2002-03
Kurt Weill Foundation Research and Travel Grant - 2002
Inscribed on USC's Wall of Scholars
University of Southern California - MA Music History - 2000
Scripps College, Claremont, CA - BA Music - 1998
Pattison MacDowell Memorial Scholarship - 1996-1998
Dean's List - 1996, 1997

Areas of Practice/Professional Experience

Defense of hospitals, physicians, and other related healthcare providers in complex medical malpractice and general liability litigation, including government tort claims and birth injury, elder abuse, and defamation actions, at both the trial and appellate levels

Appellate case work regarding medical malpractice and defamation actions.

Professional Organizations

Southern California Association of Healthcare Risk Managers (SCAHRM)
Los Angeles County Bar Association
Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles
Pi Kappa Lambda

Publications

"Schlachtfeld Berlin: Carl Ebert und die Urauffuerhrung von Kurt Weill's Die Buergschaft," in Aspekte des modernen Musiktheaters in der Weimarer Republik, ed. Nils Grosch (Muenster: Waxmann, 2004)

"The Early History of Kurt Weill's Die Buergschaft, 1930-33", Ph.D. diss., University of Southern California (2004)

Other Activities

Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles
Co-Chair, Amicus Briefs Committee - 2010-11
ABOTA Jack Daniels Trial School - 2008
MUSYCA Youth Choir (Northridge, CA)
Secretary, Board of Directors - August 2010 to present
Armenian Allied Arts Association (Burbank, CA)
Judge, Young Artists' Competition (Music Division) - 2002-04, 2009, 2011
Chair, Artists' Urgent Assistance Fund - 2004-05