Our Team

Chester Baldwin is an attorney and registered lobbyist with more than fifteen years of experience representing clients before the Washington State Legislature and executive branch agencies, and the principal of Baldwin Legal Group, PLLC. He has cultivated strong, bipartisan relationships with House and Senate leadership and members of every caucus, enabling him to move client priorities efficiently through the legislative process.

Combining extensive business experience with degrees in healthcare, finance, business computer information systems, and law, Chester brings a uniquely broad perspective to complex policy challenges. He regularly arranges and leads client meetings with lawmakers, drafts and reviews legislation, and testifies before legislative committees.

Chester earned two undergraduate degrees from the University of Washington: a Bachelor of Arts with Honors in Finance and Business Computer Information Systems from the Foster School of Business, and a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Health from the School of Public Health and Community Medicine, along with a Juris Doctor with Honors from Seattle University School of Law. He is a member of the Washington State Bar Association and the Thurston and Pierce County Bar Associations, and is admitted to practice in Federal Court. Before law school he was a project manager on the healthcare finance team at Mercer Human Resource Consulting.

He serves on the Board of Directors of the Washington State Leadership Board. He has received the Association of Surgical Technologists President’s Award for Exceptional Dedication and the Manufactured Housing Communities of Washington Outstanding Service Award for Government Affairs.

Mark Gjurasic is the principal of Consulting Services NW, LLC and has worked Washington State government affairs across a span of administrations reaching back to Governor Dixie Lee Ray, who appointed him to the Department of Commerce and Economic Development Advisory Council.

He holds long-standing working relationships across the agencies that decide regulatory outcomes: Labor & Industries, the Attorney General’s Office, Commerce, and the Office of Financial Management. He worked with Christine Gregoire during her tenure as Attorney General on consumer protection and small business issues, and with Gary Locke on House Appropriations, including Locke’s final five years as chairman.

Mark’s practice centers on business and fiscal policy, economic development, and education. He studied journalism and advertising at the University of Washington, attended the UCLA Anderson MBA program, and completed US Army Officer Candidate School at Fort Benning.

Peter Lukevich brings more than two decades of non-profit executive leadership across transportation, towing, mental health, and real estate. He has represented associations at the national and state levels of government, including Congress and the state legislatures of Washington, Idaho, and Oregon, and the Office of the Governor.

His background includes service as an attorney, a judge, a lobbyist, legislative chair of the District and Municipal Judges Association, small business owner, on-air radio personality, adjunct college professor, community activist, and high school football coach. That combination of legal training, association management, and legislative advocacy is unusual, and it is what he brings to the leadership positions he has undertaken.

Peter has drafted comprehensive pieces of legislation, budgets, and newsletters, works well under tight time constraints, and understands and respects the meaning of confidentiality. His grasp of the big picture, making sure organizational goals and objectives are advanced or protected, is his strength. He has worked on transportation, judicial, and regulatory matters confronting the judiciary, third-party debt collectors, the registered tow truck industry, and independent contractors, and played an instrumental role in securing bond funding tied to the construction of SAFECO Field (now T-Mobile Park) for outdoor recreation projects across Washington.

He is also a designated broker with 30 years’ experience representing clients buying, leasing and selling real property, owns and operates a property management company, and continues his law practice from the north Seattle area.