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Why High-Profile GC Joined Little Group With Big Plans

By Sue Reisinger

Like the South Street Seaport she represents, general counsel Lucy Fato has evolved over the past three decades through a series of high-profile corporate challenges to her current job of building a law department for a new company that holds a hodgepodge of businesses and some ambitious plans.

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