Rulemakings, Five Year Review Reports, and Petitions and Appeals and the Role of the Governor's Regulatory Review Council

Jeanne M Galvin Related Seminars and Products

is the Acting Unit Chief Counsel for the Licensing and Enforcement Section of the Arizona Attorney General’s Office. In that position, she assists in the management of 13 attorneys who represent over 30 State professional and occupational licensing boards and commissions. Jeanne represents the Board of Psychologist Examiners, the Board of Osteopathic Examiners in Medicine and Surgery and the Arizona Board of Pharmacy. She also serves as the Rules Attorney for the Attorney General’s Office. In that capacity she serves as the first line of review for all packages submitted to the Office and then makes a recommendation whether to approve the package to Attorney General Mayes. Jeanne obtained her undergraduate degree in Political Science from Arizona State University and her law degree from the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law. She has been with the Attorney General’s Office for 29 years.

Nicole Sornsin Related Seminars and Products

General Counsel

serves as ADOA’s General Counsel and Chair of the Governor’s Regulatory Review Council. Before joining ADOA, Nicole served as Chief Legal Counsel and head of the Legal Department and Recovery Fund at the Arizona Registrar of Contractors. Prior to joining the State, she spent nearly a decade working as a business litigator at the law firm of Snell & Wilmer, LLP, in Phoenix, where her practice focused on, among other areas, general business torts, construction, financial services, employment discrimination, consumer fraud, unfair competition, and complex contract-related disputes. Nicole was recognized as a Southwest Super Lawyers, “Rising Star” in the area of Business Litigation for 2014-2017.
Nicole earned her Bachelor’s degree in Journalism and Mass Communication from Arizona State University and her law degree in 2009 from William & Mary Law School in Williamsburg, Virginia.

Chance Peterson Related Seminars and Products

Assistant Chief Counsel

joined the Registrar of Contractors in January 2018. As General Counsel, he leads an amazing team of attorneys, paralegals and legal assistants in handling the agency's administrative matters and its regulation of over 40,000 licensees. Prior to coming to the Registrar, Chance was an associate attorney at the ASU Alumni Law Group, and owned his own practice focusing on civil and consumer law. Chance received his JD in 2014 from the ASU Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, where he was Senior Articles Editor for Jurimetrics - The Journal of Law, Science, and Technology, and received a Certificate in Law and Sustainability. Chance is the past chair of the Arizona State Bar's Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice Section.

Simon Peter Larscheidt Related Seminars and Products

is a staff attorney for the Governor’s Regulatory Review Council at the Arizona Department of Administration (ADOA). In that role, he is responsible for advising the Council in carrying out its responsibilities to review agency rulemakings, Five-Year Review Reports, as well as petitions submitted by stakeholders. Additionally, he provides guidance and assistance to many state agencies regarding compliance with their rulemaking and rule review obligations under statute. He has extensive public sector experience in the areas of administrative and regulatory law, as well as advising public bodies on a variety of legal matters, including open meetings laws, public records statutes, and conflict of interest laws. Before joining ADOA, Simon worked in private practice handling civil matters in the area of insurance defense litigation. Simon earned his Bachelor’s in Psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He earned his J.D. from the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University in 2015."

Patricia Grant Related Seminars and Products

Attorney Advisor