Brandy Petrone

Brandy Petrone is a senior associate with the firm.  Prior to joining the firm, Petrone served five years as legislative research staff in the Arizona State Senate.  During her service to the Senate, she performed in a number of legislative roles including serving as the legislatiave research staff for the Senate Committee on Commerce under the current chairman, Senator Barbara Leff.

As the legislative research staff for the Senate Committee on Commerce, Petrone most recently focused on commerce and economic development issues, including general corporate law and business regulation, banking, landlord-tenant issues, real estate and economic development.

Prior to her tenure with the Commerce Committee, she was an Assistant Research Analyst for the Committees on Health, Commerce and Finance and served as a graduate intern for the Appropriations Committee.

Petrone holds undergraduate degrees from Northern Arizona University in Public Administration, with an emphasis in International Marketing, and in Spanish.

Laura Etter

Laura Etter is a senior associate with the public affairs firm Goodman Schwartz.

Previously, Etter worked in the legislative affairs program with the Arizona Association of Counties, assisting the executive director with the legislative tasks.

Likewise, prior to attending law school, Etter worked with Goodman Schwartz Public Affairs, furthering her experience in legislative and governmental relations at both the state and local level of government, in addition to working with the grass roots mobilization efforts aspect of the firm.

While in law school, Etter served as a judicial extern for current Nevada Supreme Court Justice Nancy M. Saitta in the Eighth Judicial District Court of Nevada in addition to serving on the Student Bar Association as Secretary and Vice President and as a member of the Academic Standards Committee.

Most recently, Etter worked at a law firm in Southern California and focused on advanced estate planning, estate taxation, and corporation formation.

Etter holds an undergraduate degree in Political Science from Arizona State University. She received her Juris Doctor degree from the William S. Boyd School of Law at the Univeristy of Nevada Las Vegas.