Dalal is a Kuwaiti lawyer and native Arabic speaker, since securing an English law degree and LLM (in international comparative commercial law) from SOAS (University of London) she has devoted her career to international commercial dispute resolution, practicing first in Lebanon and then in Dubai.

A specialist in cross-border disputes involving English and Arab laws, she regularly undertakes advisory work in relation to a wide range of commercial disputes, with an emphasis on shareholder disputes, hospitality, and disputes arising in the banking and finance sectors. She has experience of cases conducted under the auspices of the ICC, LCIA, DIFC-LCIA, DIAC, CRCICA and the GCC Arbitration Centre.

She has published widely and is the author of the Kuwait Chapter for Commercial Arbitration 2017 in the Global Arbitration Review (GAR). She is part of the legal task force for the establishment of the Djibouti arbitration centre, and in 2016 she served as Member of the Editorial Board for the International Journal of Arab Arbitration. She is an associate member of the CIArb, and has experience appearing before the Kuwaiti Courts.