SARALEE FASSBENDER has worked with the Hamilton Consulting Group since 2000. She draws on her legal and publishing background to provide assistance in legislative research, including bill tracking and legislative reports. She is responsible for the firm’s electronic publications, including maintaining and updating the firm’s website, and preparing and updating client tracking reports, session updates, and weekly newsletters.

Before joining Hamilton Consulting, Saralee worked for the State Bar of Wisconsin in the publications department. In addition, she was responsible for coordinating the State Bar’s Environmental Lawyer Assistance Program.

Prior to moving to Wisconsin in 1989,  Saralee worked for insurance defense firms in Sacramento and Long Beach, California. Her responsibilities included research and writing for trial preparation, drafting motions, conducting depositions, and court appearances.

Saralee earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Administration from Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota and received her law degree from Western State College of Law in San Diego, California. She graduated with honors and was admitted to practice law in the State of California in 1984. While in law school, she was a law clerk in the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of California.