Dineen is Florida Bar Board Certified as an expert in intellectual property law, and focuses her practice on copyright, trade mark, and trade dress litigation and counseling. She also has extensive experience litigating trade secrets and business torts cases, often securing a positive resolution for the client without the need of a trial. Dineen has litigated cases concerning the protection of the shape of faucets, the protection of a design on airport shuttle vans, the names of check cashing stores, the scope of a copyright in a trivia quiz, several cases involving the protection of software, and the proper royalty to be paid to the owners of sound recordings for webcasting of their performances. She was also among the first lawyers to litigate the scope of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act safe harbor provisions, and helped protect internet service providers from subpoenas from the recording industry.

Dineen also has broad experience handling appeals before a variety of courts. She is admitted to practice before all of the appellate courts in Florida, as well as the United States Courts of Appeals for the First, Fourth, Ninth, Eleventh and District of Columbia Circuits. She served as a law clerk to the Honorable Susan H. Black of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in Jacksonville.

Dineen is an active member of the Hillsborough County Bar Association’s Intellectual Property Committee, where she has been invited to lecture other lawyers on trademark matters. She has also presented continuing legal education seminars for other lawyers on issues of copyright and trademark, and has written several articles on copyright and trademark issues for the Hillsborough County Bar Association Lawyer and other publications. She also writes about appellate litigation, and her work has appeared in the Florida Bar Appellate Section’s magazine, The Record. She is a member of the Hillsborough Association of Women Lawyers and the Florida Association of Women Lawyers, as well as the American Bar Association and American Intellectual Property Lawyers Association.

Dineen graduated cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center, where she served as an editor of The Georgetown Law Journal, and has a bachelor of science degree in communications from Cornell University, where she was elected Editor in Chief of the Cornell Daily Sun. She practiced in Washington, D.C. for several years before deciding to make Tampa her home, and is admitted to practice in Washington, D.C. and New York as well as Florida.

Dineen and her husband have two young sons and a Yorkshire terrier. As a family, they enjoy traveling, reading and photography.