Chem321:Acme Chief Legal Officer

• Education: BA, Sociology, State University of New York at Potsdam (1986); Law degree (JD) from Fordham University
• Experience:
  • First Lieutenant, US Army, Judge Advocate General Corps
  • Assistant Compliance Adviser, Megacorp Chemical Company
• Joined Acme: 2013

NAME is a recent addition to the Acme family. His responsibilities include advising during negotiations on collaborations and contracts, and he also advises the Environmental Manager] on compliance issues. Before joining Acme, NAME served four years in the Army as legal attache for the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division where he showed perhaps an excess of untempered idealism. During the 2003 invasion of Iraq, he was assigned as a chemical weapons compliance adviser to the Iraqi provisional government, partly to utilize his skills and partly to keep him from bothering command staff with his notions of propriety in warfare. His experience with the military left him with conflicted feelings. After leaving the Army, NAME worked briefly with Megacorp Chemical Company as Assistant Compliance Adviser to make ends meet, but was horrified with with the murky ethics of the job. His inevitable conflicts with management got him fired. He was brought into Acme to manage Acme's goal in meeting the ISO 14000 series environmental management standards. He sees Acme as a last source of salvation for the accumulated guilt of an early lifetime of ethical and professional failures and as such, he is torn between what he sees is "right" and the desire to maintain a stable career path. The Acme Environmental Management team has proposed plans that include updating Acme's bulk storage facilities and re-evaluating Acme's current relationship with BASF and its hydrogen sulfide supply system.