Practice Focus and Experience

Melissa Petro, or “Mimi” as she is commonly known, specializes in Real Estate acquisition, leasing, and development, general business transactions, and estatate planning matters. In addition, she works in the Civil and Commercial Litigation arena.

Representative Matters

• The formation of various business entities
• Real estate
• Creation of UCC Article 9 security interests
• Business asset purchase and sales transactions
• Business agreeements between artists and investors/producers
• Landlord-tenant disputes
• Home owners association disputes
• Estate planning
• Trustee’s sales
• Forcible detainer actions

Education

• University of Arizona (J.D., magna cum laude, 2003)
• Order of the Coif
• Dean’s List 2000—2003
• Arizona Journal of International and Comparative Law, Note and Comment Editor, 2001—2003.
• Outstanding First Year Oral Advocacy, 2000
• Northern Arizona University (B.A., magna cum laude, 1995
• Phi Kappa Phi

Admissions and Memberships

• US District Court, District of Arizona
• Pima County Bar Association, Young Lawyers Division
• Pima County Bar Association
• Arizona Bar Association
• American Bar Association
• Arizona Association of Defense Counsel
• Legal Community Against Hunger

Community Involvement

• Mayor Walkup’s appointed commissioner on the City of Tucson’s GLBT Commission
• Legal Community Against Hunger
• Pro Bono representation involving consumer fraud