Professor Dachille is an Associate Professor of Law and the Director of the Legal Resource Center for Tobacco Regulation, Litigation, and Advocacy. In conjunction with her work for the Center, Dachille teaches the Tobacco Control and the Law Seminar/LTP and the Tobacco Control Clinic. Because of her experience with policy and legislation in the Maryland General Assembly, Dachille also conducts a Maryland Legislative Practice Workshop and supervises externship students who work within the Maryland General Assembly.

Through the Center, Dachille provides technical legal assistance to State and local legislators, organizations and community coalitions working in tobacco control and individuals facing tobacco-related legal problems. Dachille works collaboratively with the National Tobacco Control Legal Consortium (TCLC), an entity comprised of legal assistance centers across the country. In June 2008, Dachille submitted an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in support of the respondent in Altria v. Good, a case concerning federal preemption of state consumer fraud claims against cigarette manufacturers. In the previous term of the Supreme Court, Dachille submitted an amicus brief in support of the petitioner at the certiorari and merits phase in Rowe v. New Hampshire Motor Transport, a case concerning federal preemption of a Maine law regulating the sale of cigarettes over the Internet. In July 2005, TCLC published Dachille’s law synopsis, “Secondhand Smoke and the Family Courts: The Role of Smoke Exposure in Custody and Visitation Decisions”. Dachille continues to research, write and talk on this topic, most notably with a presentation to the National Center for Adoption Law and Policy in Columbus, Ohio. Dachille routinely participates in tobacco control and public health workshops in Maryland and across the country, including presenting at the annual National Conference on Tobacco or Health.

Dachille joined the faculty in 2002 after serving for eight years with the Office of the Attorney General of Maryland. During her tenure as an Assistant Attorney General, Dachille served in the Civil Litigation Division and the Opinions and Advice Division and as counsel to the Worker's Compensation Commission and counsel for election law. As a Special Assistant Attorney General, Dachille evaluated the proposed conversion of CareFirst BlueCross/BlueShield and designed the Attorney General's Program to Reduce Youth Access to Cigarettes. Prior to her service with the OAG, Dachille served as law clerk to the Honorable Lawrence Rodowsky of the Maryland Court of Appeals and was an associate with DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary LLP (formerly Piper & Marbury). Dachille graduated from the University of Maryland School of Law in 1992 having served as Research Editor of The Maryland Law Review and as a member of the National Moot Court Team.