Christina Dieckmann joined the firm after spending more than a decade as a public defender in Brooklyn. While there, she litigated numerous jury trials to verdict, gained favorable outcomes for hundreds of clients at all stages of the criminal justice process, and was a member of the forensic unit, focusing on cases involving complex DNA mixtures, firearm/toolmark analysis, eyewitness misidentification, and other emerging fields of forensic science. She received her JD from Columbia Law School, where she was managing editor of the Columbia Human Rights Law Review and a Stone Scholar.