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Diane Marger Moore is a board certified civil trial attorney, certified by the National Board of Trial Advocacy. She is an accomplished attorney, public servant, magistrate, educator, mediator, arbitrator, lecturer, writer, editor, and community service volunteer. Throughout her career she has tried over 200 jury trials in courts across the United States. As an attorney at Baum, Hedlund, Aristei & Goldman, she focuses on the firm’s whistleblower protection cases and commercial transportation accident litigation.
In a career spanning four decades, Diane has gained a wide array of experience from positions she has held in private practice and those committed to public service and protecting the public. She began her career as a public servant by accepting judicial appointments of cases and conducting complex federal criminal litigation as a federal public defender, handling securities fraud, mail fraud, tax fraud, and general criminal matters.
 She later worked as a Deputy Attorney General in Indiana’s Federal Litigation Division, Civil Rights Section where she defended the State of Indiana in federal civil rights cases and general federal litigation matters. She then prosecuted arson cases, among others, as the Chief Deputy Arson Prosecutor and Felony Court supervisor where she supervised other senior prosecutors and litigated complex circumstantial felony cases.
Diane went onto become a Master Commissioner and Magistrate in the Major Felony Division of Indiana’s Marion County Superior Court where she served as a judicial officer presiding over non-jury and jury trials and hearings. She also served in the Civil Division where she handled complex civil cases.
As a senior attorney for the Division of Insurance Fraud, a state law enforcement agency known as DIF, in the Florida Department of Financial Services, Diane prepared complex, high profile fraud cases for prosecution throughout the State of Florida. She later served as the managing attorney for Children’s Legal Services for Florida’s Department of Children and Families.
She also practiced law in the state of Georgia, which is where she handled her first cases involving aviation law. She represented the Fulton County Aviation Authority in defending many aviation matters. She also has experience representing trucking companies (through their insurers) and handling other substantial insurance litigation, with an emphasis on complex causation, fraud and arson matters, in Florida and Indiana.
Diane’s experience in working with government agencies gives her distinctive insight into conducting investigations and working with prosecutors in whistleblower qui tam litigation and mass disaster litigation. Her success arguing cases as both a prosecutor and a defense attorney in civil and criminal proceedings makes her uniquely suited to handle a variety of complex cases.
She has held several legal teaching positions throughout her career, starting out as a Teaching Assistant at the University of Georgia, School of Law in Athens, Georgia, during which time she also provided legal counsel to Georgia’s maximum security prisoners. Diane then developed and taught advanced criminology courses to law enforcement officers as an Assistant Professor of Criminology at Tift College.
A few years later Diane became an Adjunct Law Professor at Nova University (Florida), where she taught Master level law courses and the Intensive Trial Advocacy Program at the university’s Center for Study of Law. She then moved to Indiana where she became the Department Head for the Paralegal Program at the International Business College in Indianapolis, just before beginning her position at the Office of Attorney General. |
Born:
- Coral Gables, Florida, 1953
Education:
- Florida State University (B.A., with honors, 1974)
- University of Georgia (J.D., 1978)
- International Moot Court Team, 1976 - 1977
- Editorial Staff, Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law, 1976 - 1978
- Dean’s List, Moot Court Executive Board, Dean’s List, 1977 - 1978
- National Institute for Trial Advocacy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina,
May - July 1980
- NITA - Teacher Training Session, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, April 1982
- Advanced Arson / Explosives for Prosecutors, Department of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, Glynco, Georgia, April 1996
Admissions:
- Georgia, 1978
- U.S. District Court, Northern District of Georgia, 1978
- Florida, 1979
- Louisiana, 1979
- U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida, 1983
- U.S. District Court, Northern District of Indiana, 1983
- U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida Trial Court, 1986
- Indiana, 1990
- United States Court of Claims, 1991
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit, 1993
- U.S. District Court, Southern District of Indiana, 1994
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit, 2005
Certified:
Member:
- Coordinator, Women Law Students Association, 1977 – 1978
- World Secretary, World Law Students Association, 1977 – 1979
- Florida Bar
- Florida Bar Commission on Lawyer Professionalism,1987 - 1989
- Chairman of Florida Bar subcommittee “Communication Professionalism to the Public”
- Editorial Board, Florida Bar Journal, 2009 – present
- Florida Bar Grievance Committee “H,” 17th Judicial Circuit, 1986 -1989
- Board of Governors, Florida Bar, Young Lawyers Division,17th Judicial Circuit, 1987 - 1989
- Chairman, Starting on Your Own Committee,1987 -1988
- Chairman, Guardian Ad Litem Committee,1987 - 1989
- Editor, Florida Bar Journal, Column for Young Lawyers Division,1988 -1989
- Florida Bar Criminal Law Section: Chairman, Committee on Indigent Counsel, 1987 - 1990
- Florida Bar Criminal Law Section: Executive Council, 1991 – 1993
- State Bar of Georgia
- Elected, Board of Governors, State Bar of Georgia, Appalachian Judicial Circuit, 2005 - 2009
- Mentor, State Bar of Georgia, helping law students transition into Law Programs, 2006 - present
- Indiana State Bar Association
- Chairman, Client’s Financial Assistance Fund Committee, Board of Governors, State Bar of Indiana, 2000 - 2002
- Committee on the Civil Rights of Children, State Bar of Indiana, 1994, 1996 – 1999
- Editor, Res Gestae (Co-Chairman of the State Bar of Indiana’s Written Publication Committee) Board of Governors, 1997 - 1999
- Facilitator, School Mediation Project, State Bar of Indiana, 1994
- Louisiana State Bar
- National Board of Trial Advocacy
Government Service:
- Federal Public Defender, Southern District of Florida, 1986 - 1987
- Deputy Attorney General, Office of the Attorney General, State of Indiana’s Federal Litigation Division, Civil Rights Section, 1992 - 1994
- Chief Arson Prosecutor, Marion County Felony Division, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1995 - 1997
- Master Commissioner and Magistrate, Marion County Superior Court, Major Felony Division / Civil Division, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1999 - 2001
- Senior Attorney, Florida Department of Financial Services, Division of Insurance Fraud, 2009 – 2010
- Assistant General Counsel, Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation,
2009 - 2010
- Managing Attorney, Children’s Legal Services, Florida Department of Children and Families, Panama City, Florida, 2010 - 2011
Legal Teaching Positions:
- Teaching Assistant, University of Georgia - School of Law, Athens, Georgia,
September 1977 - June 1978
- Assistant Professor Criminology, Tift College, Forsyth, Georgia. Developed and taught advanced criminology courses, including “Criminology” and “Policy Report Writing” to law enforcement officers in evening division, March 1979 - August 1979
- Adjunct Law Professor, Nova University, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, taught Masters level course on “School Law” (AS516), Summer Semester, 1984
- Adjunct Law Professor, Nova University Center for Study of Law, Intensive Trial Advocacy Program, January 1984, January 1985 (and other demonstrations and lectures)
- Department Head, International Business College, Indianapolis, Indiana, Paralegal Program,
August - December 1992
Lecturer / Instructor / Speeches:
- Lecturer on Innovative Defense Techniques, Georgia Prosecutors’ Counsel Seminar,
September 1981
- Faculty, Emory University NITA Trial Techniques Program, January 1982, January 1983
- Assistant Team Leader, National Institute for Trial Advocacy, S.E. Regional Program, May 1982
- Faculty on Criminal Law, Bridge-the-Gap Seminar, Georgia Continuing Legal Education,
January 1981; January 1982
- Lecturer on Federal Practice, Florida Legal Assistants, Inc., October 6, 1983
- Lecturer, “Conflicts of Interest in Multi-Defendant Cases,” Florida Criminal Defense Attorneys’ Association, March 1983
- Speaker, “Impact of Bail Reform Act of 1984,” National Association of Pretrial Services Agencies, October 1986
- Speaker, “Interviewing and Counseling of Clients,” Bridge-the-Gap Seminar, Fla. Bar C.L.E.,
October 1988
- Speaker - Motion Practice in Criminal Cases, Florida Bar - Young Lawyer Seminar on Criminal Practice, Tampa, Florida and Miami, Florida, November 1991
- Speaker, “Adjusting Condominium Losses: The New Florida Condominium Act,” Crawford and Company Annual Property Seminar, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. August 1992
- Trainer, Advanced Mediation Training (Indiana Association of Mediators) Civil Rights and Statutory Disputes: Resolving Civil Rights and Title VII Cases through Mediation.
October 29, 1994
- Speaker and Panel Member, “How to Set Up a Law Practice,” Second Annual Women and the Law, Bench - Bar Conference, Culver Indiana, February 2006
- Teaching team member, Prosecutor/Public Defender Trial Training Program; Team Leader, University of Florida School of Law, 2010; Professional Training Facilitator,
1985 - 1992, 2004; Stetson University College of Law, December 2 - 4, 1984
- Faculty, Georgia Trial Skills Clinic, University of Georgia School of Law, State Bar of Georgia, 2003 – 2006
- Faculty, Advanced Criminal Trial Practice, State Bar of Georgia, University of Georgia, 2003 - 2006, 2008 – 2011
- Faculty Chairman, Trial Practice for Dependency Cases, Dept. Children and Families,
Panama City, Florida, April 2011
- Speaker, "Whistleblower (Qui Tam) Litigation in IN: The Facts and Recent Decisions," Indiana State Bar Association Women’s Bench Bar Retreat, March 3, 2012
Mediation and Arbitration:
- American Arbitration Association, Panel of Arbitrators, 1990 - 1994
- Nova University Mediation Training Session, December 1992
- Advanced Mediation Training, Indianapolis, Indiana, March 1994
- Certified Insurance Mediator, State of Florida, 1992 - 1996
- Civil Mediation – Florida and Indiana, 1992 - 2001
- Georgia Registered Mediator, 2009 - 2011
Author:
- “Criminal Law in Georgia - Misdemeanors,” published by Georgia Continuing Legal Education, 1981
- “Misdemeanor Practice in Georgia,” published by Georgia Continuing Legal Education, Misdemeanor Practice, 1981
- “Pretrial Motions in Criminal Cases,” published by Georgia Continuing Legal Education Bridge-the-Gap, 1981-1982
- “The Trafficking Act and Youthful Offenders” Vol. III, No. 1 Crim. L. Section Newsletter, 1984; M. Kadish & R. Brofman, Trial Investigation and Preparation, Criminal Law Advocacy Series, Matthew Bender, 1982, Contributing Author
- “New I.R.S. Reporting Law: A Further Decline of Client Confidentiality,” 59 Fla. Bar J. 333, 1985
- “Interviewing the Client, Fact Investigation & Theory of Defense,” Florida Pretrial Practice in Criminal Cases, Fla. Bar C.L.E., 1987
- “Federal Practice in Southern District of Florida,” Fla. C.L.E. 1989, (Reprinted 1990)
- “New Grievance Procedures: A Summary and Analysis,” 65 Fla. Bar J. 35, 1991
- “Motion Practice in Criminal Cases,” Fla. C.L.E.,1992
- “Florida Criminal Appellate Practice - A New Lawyer’s Guide,” Attorneys Handbook, Fla. C.L.E., 1988 (updated 1989, 1990, 1992, & 1993)
- “Indiana’s Corpus Delicti Rule: Time for A Change,” Res Gestae, 2001
Awards and Honors:
- University of Georgia School of Law, Order of the Barristers (National Moot Court Honorary), 1978
- Florida Bar President’s Annual Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Division, 1989
- Florida Bar President’s Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Section, 1992
- Listed, Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers
Pro Bono & Civic Activities
- Precinct Committee Chairman, Center & Perry Townships, 1995 - 1999
- Member of the Board of Directors, Adult and Child Mental Health Center, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana, 1997 - 2001,
Chairman of the Board 1999 - 2000
- Girl Scout Troop Leader, Girl Scouts of America, Indianapolis, Indiana,
1998 - 2001
- Indiana Bar Foundation, 1999 - present
- Coordinator, Domestic Violence Task Force, Appalachian Judicial Circuit, 2002 - 2003
- Vice President, Parent-Teacher Organization, Jasper Elementary School,
2002 - 2004
- Georgia Bar Foundation, 2002 - present
- Board of Directors, Appalachian Children’s Center, 2005 - 2006
- Board of Directors, Appalachian Children’s Shelter, 2008 - 2009
- Board of Directors, Pickens County Arts Council, 2008 - 2010
- Ambassador, Monticello Opera House, 2011 - present
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