Languages: Spanish.

Biography: Born in Upland, California, March 11, 1966; admitted to bar, 1993, Arizona, 2000 Colorado, U.S. District Court, District of Arizona, U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Education: University of California at Riverside (B.S. Economics, magna cum laude, 1988); University of Arizona (J.D., 1993). Recipient:  American Jurisprudence Award in Constitutional Law; Arizona Law Review Editor=s Award 1991-1992;  Snell and Wilmer Outstanding Second Year Writer Award, 1991-1992. Articles Editor, Arizona Law Review, 1992-1993. Author, "Invigorated State Merger Enforcement: A Proposed Analytic Framework That Preempts Preemption Problems," 35 Arizona Law Review 445 (1993).  Chair, Republican National Lawyers Association, Southern Arizona Chapter (2004 – Present); General Counsel, Pima County Republican Party (2004 – Present); President and founder of the Tucson Wildcats Baseball Club, the premier youth competitive baseball organization in Arizona (1998 – Present).  Member: State Bar of Arizona; Member: Pima County Bar Association. Reported Cases:  Ringier American vs. State of Arizona 184 Ariz. 250, 908 P.2d 64 (App. 1995); Bull HN Information Systems vs. Maricopa County, 185 Ariz. 393, 916 P.2d 1109 (App. 1995); First Interstate Bank of Arizona vs. State of Arizona Department of Revenue 185 Ariz. 433, 916 P.2d 1149 (App. 1995); Abrams Airborne Manufacturing, Inc. vs. State of Arizona, 185 Ariz. 589, 917 P.2d 1236 (App. 1996); Rogers Corporation vs. State of Arizona Dept. of Revenue, 187 Ariz.157,  P.2d 817 (App. 1996); Westin Tucson Hotel v. Arizona Department of Revenue, 188 Ariz. 360, 936 P.2d 183 (App. 1997); Home Depot USA, Inc. v. Pueblo County Board of Commissioners, 50 P.3d 916 (Co. Ct. App. 2002).

Biography: Born in Tucson, Arizona, June 28, 1938; admitted to bar, 1964, Arizona and U.S. District Court, 1966, U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit; 1968, Nevada and U.S. Supreme Court; 1972, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit; 1979, District of Columbia and U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth and Fifth Circuits; 1981, U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit; 1993, U.S. Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit and U.S. Court of Federal Claims; 1994, Texas and Colorado; 1996, Montana and Wyoming. Education:  Stanford University (B.A., 1960; J.D., 1964). Phi Beta Kappa. Author, "Extra-territorial Enforcement of Foreign Tax Obligations," Arizona Law Review, 1966; "The Insanity Defense in Arizona: A Study in Enigma and Emasculation," Arizona Bar Journal, 1966. Legal Advisor, Undersecretary of Energy, 1990-1991 and Deputy General Counsel, 1991-1993, U.S. Department of Energy.  Judge Pro Tem, Pima County (Arizona) Superior Court, 1996-1997.  Member, Arizona Water Banking Authority Study Commission, 1996-1998; Governor's Water Management Commission, Technical Advisor Committee (2000 – 2001); Governor's Water Management Commission (2001 – 2002); Tucson Water Resources Council (Member, Board of Directors, 1995 – 2001).  Member:  State Bar of Arizona; State Bar of Montana; State Bar of Nevada; State Bar of Wyoming; State Bar of Texas; The District of Columbia Bar; Colorado Bar Association; Mediation and Arbitration Panel, American Arbitration Association; United States Administrative Conference's Roster of Dispute Resolution Neutrals; Governor=s Water Commission Technical Advisory Committee; Board of Directors, Tucson Regional Water Council. Founding Fellow, Arizona Bar Foundation. Council. Founding Fellow, Arizona Bar Foundation.

Biography: Born Badcannstatt, Germany, April 21, 1953; admitted to bar, 1994, Washington, U.S. District Court, Western District of Washington and U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit; 2000, Arizona, U.S. District Court, District of Arizona.  Education:  University of California at San Diego (B.A., with highest honors, 1974); Seattle University School of Law (J.D., summa cum laude, 1994). Recipient:   American Jurisprudence Awards in Property, Contracts, Corporations, Real Estate, Trusts; Phi Delta Phi; Lead Article Editor, University of Puget Sound Law Review, 1993-1994.  Member: Washington State Bar Association, Arizona State Bar Association, Pima County Bar Association.

Laura Chiasson 
Commercial Litigation

Biography: Born in Tucson, Arizona, October 20, 1962; admitted to bar in 1998 in Arizona, U.S. District Court, District of Arizona.  Education: University of Arizona (B.A. in Mathematics, 1984); University of New Mexico (Master of Public Administration, 1991); University of Arizona (J.D., summa cum laude, 1998).  Member: State Bar of Arizona, American Bar Association, Pima County Bar Association.  Experience:  Law Clerk to Chief Justice Thomas A. Zlaket, August 1998-March 2000. 

Biography: Born in Boston, Massachusetts, May 24, 1943; admitted to bar, 1989, Arizona, US District Court, District of Arizona, and U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Education: McGill University (B.Sc. 1965, M.B.A. 1973); University of Arizona (J.D. 1989). Experience:  Mr. Green brings "real-world" experience to the practice of law. Prior to entering the profession, Mr. Green was involved in industrial research and development, manufacturing, retailing, and consulting in both Canada and the United States. Mr. Green was commissioned to prepare a study for the Canadian Government on the effects of government funding policies on industrial research and development. Mr. Green is a registered chemist and is the author or co-author of many articles concerning industrial research and development. Additionally, he authored AThe Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1994" (January 1994); ACurrent Changes in the [Bankruptcy] Law@ (December 1993); and AA Primer in Lender Protection@ (January 1993) published in the Bankruptcy Newsline; and APrivacy Issues in the Telecommunications Industry@8 seminars 1999 and 2000.  Mr. Green authored several articles or given seminars on intellectual property issues, including:  "Copyrights – They're Not What You Think They Are", Arizona Attorney, October 2003; "Covenants Not to Compete" Arizona Attorney, February 2003; and "Intellectual Property Issues in High Tech Companies", Seminar 2000. Mr. Green is a member of the county, state, and national bar associations, and has been on the board of directors of many companies. Mr. Green is an advisor to the Small Business Development Group of Pima Community College, the Office of Technology Transfer of the University of Arizona, and the Tucson Technology Incubator. Mr. Green is a former management consultant and an adjunct professor of law.

Biography: Michael Meehan was an honors graduate of the United States Coast Guard Academy and received his J.D. with high distinction from the James P. Rogers College of Law at the University of Arizona.  He served as law clerk to then-Associate Justice William H. Rehnquist during the October 1971 Term of the United States Supreme Court.  He is a Fellow and Past President of the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers.  He is a Past Chair of the State Bar of Arizona Appellate Practice Section.  By appointment of the Chief Justice of the Unites States, he served on the Appellate Rules Advisory Committee of the Judicial Conference of the United States from 1993 through 1999.  He was a Steering Committee Member for the 2005 National Conference on Appellate Justice sponsored by the Federal Judicial Center, the National Center for State Courts, the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers, and the New York University School of Law Institute for Judicial Administration.  Mr. Meehan is Of Counsel to the Tucson Arizona law firm of Munger Chadwick PLC.  He has conducted an active civil jury trial practice, and an appeals practice, for thirty-four years.  He has appeared and argued cases before the United States Supreme Court, the United States Courts of Appeals for the Sixth, Eighth, Ninth and Tenth Circuits, and the Arizona Supreme Court and Court of Appeals.  He has been continuously listed in Best Lawyers of America in the categories of Commercial Litigation and Media Law, since its inception.  He is a member of the Board of Visitors and the Dean’s Economic Council of the Rogers College of Law.  He has served as Judge Tempore of the Pima County, Arizona, Superior Court, and as Professional Responsibility Hearing Committee Member for the State Bar of Arizona.  He has lectured or made CLE presentations in Constitutional Law, Supreme Court Practice, First Amendment and Media Law, Securities Law, the Law of Commercial Damages, and Professionalism.

Meredith Leyva 
Public Relations Management

Biography:  Ms. Leyva joined Munger Chadwick as a Public Relations Consultant and Federal Lobbyist from Fleishman Hillard in Washington, D.C., where she was a Vice President.  At Fleishman and other large public relations agencies, Ms. Leyva consulted for a wide variety of companies ranging from fortune 500 companies such as Eli Lilly, Motorola and Boeing; to government entities such as Mexico's Commerce Department and NASA; to start-up firms such as Zaffire (optical networking), CareerBuilder.com and TopTier Software (enterprise portals).  Ms. Leyva has also served as Public Relations Director for the prestigious American Enterprise Institute and was Legislative Assistant for then-Congressman Jon Kyl (R-Az).  She is a native of Tucson and a graduate of the University of California at Santa Barbara.  Ms. Leyva is not a lawyer.