Speaker

Chris Micheli is a founding partner of the governmental relations and advocacy firm of Snodgrass & Micheli, LLC, located in Sacramento, California.  Prior to forming the firm, he was a founding partner of Aprea & Micheli, Inc, as well as a partner in California Strategies, a statewide public affairs firm. He has proudly represented SHRM in California for the past two and a half years.

 As a legislative advocate, Micheli regularly testifies before policy and fiscal committees of the California Legislature, as well as a number of administrative agencies, departments, boards, and commissions.  He often drafts legislative and regulatory language and is considered a leading authority on state tax law developments, as well as the legislative and regulatory processes.  The Wall Street Journal called him "one of the top three business tax lobbyists in the state” and the Los Angeles Times described him as an "elite lobbyist.”

 Micheli has been an attorney of record in several key cases, having argued before the Supreme Court of California (just two years out of law school), as well as the Court of Appeal several times.  He has filed more than fifteen amicus curiae briefs in California courts.  He is admitted to practice law before all of the state and federal courts in California.

 He has published eight law review articles and is the co-editor and co-author of the book “A Practitioner’s Guide to Lobbying and Advocacy in California” and “Guide to Executive Branch Agency Rulemaking,” as well as the author of “Understanding the California Legislative Process,” “Introduction to California State Government,” and “An Introduction to Drafting Legislation in California.” He has published the “Handbook on Legislative Drafting in California” and “Handbook on California’s Legislative Process.”

 Micheli is also the author of five casebooks: “Cases and Materials on Direct Democracy in California,” “The California Legislature and Its Legislative Process – Cases and Materials,” “Cases and Materials on the California Regulatory Process,” “Cases and Materials on California’s Executive Branch of Government,” and “Cases and Materials on California’s Political and Elections Laws.”

 He is a graduate of the University of California, Davis with a B.A. in Political Science – Public Service and the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law with a J.D. degree.  He currently serves as an Adjunct Professor of Law at McGeorge where he teaches the course Lawmaking in California as well as several online MSL courses, and as a Lecturer in Law at the University of California, Davis, King Hall School of Law where he teaches the course Legislative Drafting.

 He resides in Sacramento, California with his wife, Liza, two daughters, Morgan and Francesca, and son, Vincenzo.  He enjoys reading, writing, soccer, martial arts, and travel.