Features Region: Southeast

Hurricane Sally slammed ashore from the Gulf of Mexico into coastal Alabama in 2020, bringing inundating storm tides that surged as winds of more than 100 mph roared above the water. As widespread damages amounted to hundreds of millions of dollars, residents and business owners struggled to assess how much it would cost to repair […]

Linda Moore says she knew her career path when she was in elementary school. “A teacher said I should go into a professional career, either a doctor or a lawyer,” she says. “I didn’t want to be a doctor but had no idea what a lawyer did. Now I can’t imagine doing anything else. It’s […]

In this hyper-charged and fragmented world of media, Alysia Long has an up-close view of local broadcast stations standing out from the crowd in ways that she says most positively impact everyday lives. She considers the importance of local journalism and broadcasting as increasingly overlooked and aims to amplify Cox Media Group’s voice amongst the […]

Lindsey Catlett may not meet directly with Simmons Bank customers as they apply for loans, open accounts or use the other financial services the bank provides.  But as vice president and senior corporate counsel, she’s part of the team managing Simmons Bank’s day-to-day legal affairs, including integrating the teams and products from the banks Simmons […]

On its surface, the world of reality TV might seem like every in-house counsel’s worst nightmare. Lots of unscripted moments. Talent with little to no training or on-camera experience. Contests in which much can go awry. But when Sira Veciana-Muino got to tackle a half-dozen reality TV shows – from “Latin American Idol” to “Top […]

It’s not just patients whose patience is tested by the seemingly endless tests they may undergo during even routine checkups and exams. As Steve Morgan says, approximately 3/4 of healthcare decisions originate from lab test results and more than 14 billion tests are performed annually in the U.S. at a cost of $82 billion. For […]

There’s a certain high one gets from litigating. Alison Haney Bruck thrived on it during her more than six years as a Miami-Dade prosecutor and then the nine years that followed as a litigator for Allstate staff counsel. How satisfying she found it to secure a conviction against a criminal or to turn the tables […]

No matter where you’re headed, it’s likely Amadeus is helping you get there—without you even realizing it. Of course, this isn’t a reference to the immortal composer, although Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart visited more than 200 places in Europe before his death in 1791. Instead, this is about Amadeus, the Madrid-based provider of technology platforms and […]

Cadence Bank has come a long way since it was founded in 1876 inside the Raymond Trice and Co. store in Verona, Mississippi.  For the past 12 years, Raja Khalaf, a senior vice president and assistant general counsel, has seen and helped guide the bank’s growth to operations in nine Southeastern states.   Cadence Bank’s growth […]

When Russia invaded Ukraine, thousands of live international business transactions were thrown into limbo. And some of those involved International Materials (IMI), a commodity trading company that sources and ships raw materials worldwide, primarily serving the cement, wallboard and steel industries.  The war made Kellyn Muller’s job more complex. As general counsel of the trading […]