Donna Malpezzi is an attorney in Pennsylvania, where she is chief counsel for

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Majority Leader Dominic F. Pileggi. She also worked as chief counsel for the previous Senate Majority Leader, David J. Brightbill and moved to Pileggi's office after Brightbill was defeated following the

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. Prior to that, she was an attorney in the office of Senator F. Joseph Loeper. She is generally considered to be the best attorney for drafting legislation in the Pennsylvania General Assembly. '' The Insider'' described her as the "Brightbill Legal Eagle." In 2005 remarks to the

, Dominic F. Pileggi noted that Malpezzi was "at the center of nearly every budget discussion for our Caucus," The ''Pennsylvania Report'' named her to the 2003 "The Pennsylvania Report Power 75" list of influential figures in Pennsylvania politics and noted that Malpezzi and her colleague

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were the best attorneys in the

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." In 2009, she was named to the ''Pennsylvania Report'' "PA Report 100" list of politically influential individuals in Pennsylvania.

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