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What’s the key to success as an in-house attorney?   For Claudia Trancozo, it’s fluency in French.  She’s the legal manager and head of the legal department for Britânia Eletrodomésticos, one of Brazil’s largest appliance manufacturers. While the role doesn’t require her to speak French, it was her in-house experience helping the French carmaker Renault expand […]

She’s not just knocking wood over the fact Lockheed Martin hasn’t had a serious work stoppage in the past 10 years. Jennifer Motwani Hurley tries to ensure business continues under any condition. Last April, for instance, she helped the defense and aerospace contractor agreed to a new four-year, two-month contract with its machinists’ union in […]

As the only in-house attorney at HCI Systems Inc., Wahid Guirguis is involved in all its operations, from compliance and regulatory matters to labor and employment and human resources. With few outside counsel, he spends his days working with managers and leadership of the company’s offices throughout California. He also handles contracts, reviews legal documents, […]

At Trane Technologies, Jessie Basner manages every stage of civil cases, which can be heard from federal courts down through state and local ones, with a goal of resolving disputes before they reach a courtroom. That’s no small task, says the associate general counsel for commercial litigation in the Americas. With its Trane and Thermo […]

Though relatively new to Brazil and not yet one of the industry’s heavyweights there, Japan Tobacco International has been expanding in South America’s largest country. With Brazil being the world’s largest exporter of tobacco and having the ideal soil and climate for cultivating the plant, expanding there has helped the company’s grow. To sustain its […]

It’s the role she had long been preparing for, even if it wasn’t always apparent to Maria-Gabriela Lopez Varela. “Some people at a young age know just what they want in life but that wasn’t me,” she says. Since December 2018, she’s been senior counsel in Latin America for the French-owned luxury fashion house, Chanel, […]

At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, store shelves were being wiped out by people stocking up on essential supplies. Among the hardest-to-find items was toilet paper. For manufacturers, including the Kimberly-Clark Corporation, keeping up with demand was a challenge. The international company is known for the brands Cottonelle and Scott, as well as other […]

Ask “what’s cooking?” to someone using a Traeger wood pellet grill, and the answer could be anything from steak to ribs to wood-fired pizza. Ask Courtland Astill, and the answer will be M&A with a slathering of IPO. Astill, the company’s associate general counsel, has managed an acquisition that keeps Traeger’s technology at the forefront […]

For as long as there have been products to sell, there have been companies claiming their products are the best. But, as Kimberly Murphy explains, they actually, legally, need to prove it. She’s the global chief competition counsel for Kimberly-Clark Corporation and the general counsel for its North America Family Care Business. The Irving, Texas-based […]

With clients in healthcare, Construction Specialties Inc. met every definition of essential business during COVID-19. And what a greater volume of work the company had as its hospital and clinic clientele reconfigured available space into patient rooms. The company noted for making and using such specialty products as Acrovyn® wall protection and doors, as well […]