Features December 2020

If you grew up in the Bronx and wanted to be a lawyer, everything would seem to be against you. Not only has there been a lack of opportunity, but legal role models in the Latino community are hard to find. Growing up in a Puerto Rican family, Adam Colón was inspired by his mother, […]

Water—it’s an issue that can be all-consuming for a lawyer, and for much of Alf W. Brandt’s career it seemed that way. Some geo-pundits believe the next major war will be fought over water, not oil. At the very least, its use or misuse can divide even the most civil community. Which shouldn’t be the […]

While Bass Wallace enjoys a respite from a quarter-century tending to complex in-house law at a couple of Texas-based energy services companies with international operations, he reckons he’ll remain active in the industry. He’s got experience in spades to leverage from TETRA Technologies Inc., the Woodlands company from which he recently retired as senior vice […]

“Do you give up when things get hard?” Beth Kinsley distinctly remembers the question posed by her Colby College advisor sophomore year when she was about to drop her microeconomics course due to an illness. As it turns out, she didn’t drop that course. In fact, she embraced economics as her minor. And her advisor’s […]

Replacing the Tappan Zee Bridge, which spans the Hudson River north of New York City, presented a dramatic tableau as the new bridge rose above the river just next to the one it would take the place of. Given traffic conditions in the tri-state area, lots of drivers on Interstate 287 had time to marvel […]

Catherine “Ree” Reeves Harper admits she works in an area few have heard about—even herself initially—but it’s one that can make a crucial difference for employers, especially in a pandemic. She’s talking about PEOs—or professional employer organizations. As the vice president of human resources and general counsel of Lyons HR, Harper says a PEO, such […]

Building infrastructure, laying down electrical grids, producing foods for an international market and providing development opportunities to communities across Central America: It’s an interesting business model developed by Guatemala’s CMI, especially if one considers the business got famous for its fried chicken, says Hector Del Río. But as CMI Foods legal director explains, supporting communities […]

Merely mentioning mining in some circles can conjure up collapsed tunnels and black lung disease, ever-present dangers in one of the world’s toughest occupations of hauling raw materials from the ground. But travel to Finland and hop in the cabin of the latest technological mining equipment with a coffee and you may be relaxing or […]

Sunny skies notwithstanding on the Florida Gulf Coast, the climate seemed most unsettled at the company where David Glogoff would begin overseeing legal responsibilities in the summer of 2017. For St. Petersburg-based Catalina would soon undergo C-Suite changes and restructure its finances under Chapter 11. Furthermore, the clock was ticking as this market leader in […]

If you’ve ever watched “Orange is the New Black,” “Oz,” “The Shawshank Redemption,” or any of these TV shows and movies about life behind bars, you know that it’s no “fairy tale world”—or so the ever-omniscient Morgan Freeman reflects in the latter adaptation of the Stephen King novella. And when people are released from correctional […]