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His long-time role as general counsel might have seemed consuming enough. But, as part of a Trudell Medical Limited executive team whose members are expected to handle multiple responsibilities, Joaquim Ballès’ position was expanded a couple of years ago to include a stronger hand in business development. It’s something this leader has relished at this […]

When Jennifer Crawford became the general counsel at Medici in early 2019, she knew there’d be a lot of moving pieces—both inside the company and within the wider healthcare industry. Since then, those pieces have only multiplied. A pandemic can have that effect on a telehealth startup, after all. But with the challenge of COVID-19 […]

If nothing else, Todd Johnson lives for checklists and challenges. He checked off all the boxes when given a list of what he needed to do to get into West Point. As a cadet, he checked off all the items needed to get into flight school. In civilian life, he’s checked off all the things […]

As Regional Cancer Care Associates, one of the nation’s largest cancer care networks, began celebrating its fifth year of success in 2016, an ambitious agenda was being readied. At the time, RCCA’s only in-house attorney, Terrill Jordan, was promoted to president and CEO and a search commenced for his legal successor. The ideal candidate would […]

A patient with a sepsis infection lies in a hospital bed in British Columbia. Needing more information to determine the best course of action, the doctor reaches out to peers in the U.S., who offer to share their observations—and offer some potential treatment options. But they can’t have a look at the patient’s medical records […]

It seemed an example of an attorney earning his stripes as Jeff Martin spent almost a decade working at several Dallas-area law firms practicing in multiple areas but specializing in commercial and complex litigation. Diligently, he researched, wrote briefs and litigated, learning all the while how businesses both large and small operate. And yet, when […]

Tajanae Mallett remembers the moment when her life and career collided. As she stood inside a rehabilitation center where her mother was recovering from hip-replacement surgery, Mallett looked around the room and all of its contents—spacious, comfortable, replete with bells and whistles—and noticed something that landed like a revelation: there were products manufactured by her […]

Growing up in Uruguay, Lucia Villamil Mariatti wasn’t sure which education path would lead to her true passion. It wasn’t until matriculating as a law student and discovering administrative law that she realized what she was passionate about: fostering ethics and humanity within the business world. The subject “motivated me because it goes towards the […]

Sometimes the people behind the scenes of a corporate spinoff can step into a more prominent role even if they weren’t directly involved in the run-up. That’s seemed the case with James Camire and the expanded responsibilities he’s taken on at Vecna since last June. An associate general counsel since 2016, he wasn’t at the […]

As a young law firm associate, he helped multinationals selling weapons of war overseas. The past three years-plus he’s been general counsel and chief compliance officer at a company that rents high-tech home care beds. So which has Matt Packard found to be more the subject of stringent regulations? “It’s easier to untangle the regulations […]