LaSota also served as Bruce Babbitt's Chief of Staff when the former was governor of Arizona.
He has drafted statutes, including telephonic search warrant and electronic eavesdropping laws, many of which are still on the books.
[citation needed] He spent three years at the Arizona State University College of Law as a faculty member and assistant dean, during which tenure his principal role was to draft and circulate nationwide to over 500 agencies pioneering Model Rules for Law Enforcement.
[citation needed] After Bruce Babbitt succeeded Wesley Bolin as governor, he appointed LaSota to replace him as Attorney General.
While LaSota was employed at the Arizona State University School of Law his bar membership lapsed to retired status and, as a retired lawyer, he could not practice law or hold himself out as eligible to do so.