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Diani provides counsel on environmental, natural resources, and water law matters. She is a fifth-generation shellfish farmer, and her experience includes work as the general counsel for her family business, Taylor Shellfish Farms. In this role, Diani represented the company on a broad range of matters including natural resource, property, food, business, commercial leasing and water law, and oversaw Taylor’s public affairs and regulatory departments. As an owner, Diani serves on the company’s leadership team. She has been engaged in the seafood sector for over a decade and has participated extensively in industrywide activities related to federal, state, and local policy and regulations. 

Before her time as general counsel, Diani was an associate attorney with Plauché & Carr and worked on a variety of environmental law matters as well as facilitation of large stakeholder groups addressing complex natural resource issues. 

In 2016, Diani served as the National Ocean Council Law Clerk at the White House Council on Environmental Quality where she worked on ocean and environmental law and policy matters of national significance.