Features Region: Southeast

As it lumbers over tarmac at an air base or lands on a 2,000-foot airstrip carved into a mountain range, the sound of Lockheed Martin C-130J’s Super Hercules’ four turbo prop engines is a familiar thrum.  Able to haul nearly 25 tons, the aircraft supplies military and humanitarian operations globally, delivering cargo by parachute or […]

When a seamstress in the Philippines no longer had a working sewing machine, her business came to a halt.  The woman, who lives on the island of Mindanao, tried to get by with needle and thread, but couldn’t take on the large projects she once relied on to support her family.   “One sewing machine may […]

As the proverb goes, Rome wasn’t built in a day—but bricks were laid every hour. While a university campus isn’t quite as large as the capital of Italy, it is like a small city, says Regina Delulio, who’s been laying legal bricks at Florida Polytechnic University for a decade. Created in 2012 as an independent […]

While many people steered clear of airplanes in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, others looked to them for opportunities. For instance, executives at Intelsat, one of the world’s largest satellite operators, used the slowdown of the airline industry to acquire Gogo Inc.’s commercial aviation business, one of the largest global providers of in-flight […]

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 […]

Creating a more connected and sustainable world, both in public and private sectors, may hinge on one factor above all: massive technological upgrades. So says Blair Rawls, associate general counsel at Jacobs, a company involved in everything from business intelligence to infrastructure, cybersecurity and space exploration. In recent years, the company has invested heavily in […]

As the first in her family to graduate college and attend law school, Mary Chapin says education was life-changing for her. So, after earning her undergraduate and law degrees, she joined the education law boutique of O’Hara & O’Connell in 1992, representing school districts and colleges in state and federal courts for nearly three years, […]

Sometimes, the road less traveled has the most interesting scenery. Such was certainly the experience of Angela Frazier. While her career path was far from linear, she eventually found her way to her current position as assistant general counsel at Cox Communications, where she’s helping the country’s third largest internet, cable and phone provider keep […]

Hanna Chouest wasn’t drawn to her career by the far-off sound of a locomotive whistle. Her interest in practicing law in the transportation industry was instead piqued by her father, who made his career in the practice area. Though he focused more on aviation, Chouest says his travel and the legal issues and regulations surrounding […]

There’s no real highs or lows on his watch. Just an overall steadiness that Bhavin Patel helps enable at Compass Group USA where, come August, he’ll celebrate his 15th anniversary as assistant general counsel. But, as he told Vanguard in May, the past couple years have taken some doing to sustain business as usual at […]