Laura E. Murray joined the Zumbrun Law Firm as an associate in 2008.

Ms. Murray graduated with distinction from the University of the Pacific’s McGeorge School of Law in December 2007. During law school, she served as a clerk at Pacific Legal Foundation. She re-chartered the McGeorge Federalist Society, serving as a board member, and hosting several campus events on topics such as property rights post-Kelo. She also received Witkin Awards in Legal Process and Mediation. In her final semester, she drafted an article on the necessary improvements to California’s Licensed Midwifery Practice Act in light of a woman’s constitutional right to birth at home and a lay midwife’s constitutional right to practice her trade.

Ms. Murray received her bachelor’s degree with honors in French Language at Marlboro College in Marlboro, Vermont in May 2003. She studied perspectives on the centralization of government, and its effects on commerce and transportation through the literature and economic history of 19 th Century France, particularly through the novels of Emile Zola. Her senior thesis criticized the transformation of Parisian life by the eminent domain power of Louis Napoleon and urban planner Baron Haussmann. This work is in the libraries of Marlboro College and of the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama.

Ms. Murray lives in Sacramento with her husband, Andrew, and daughter, Violet. She enjoys children’s literature, walks in the neighborhood park, cooking, and gardening.