General counsel usually don’t put themselves in the public eye—especially GCs who are new to the job. But Peter Carter is an exception. Rather than shying away from the media, Carter has repeatedly made headlines since leaving the Minneapolis-based firm Dorsey & Whitney to become executive vice president and chief legal officer at Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines Inc. in July 2015.
In December, just five months into his new job, Carter wrote to federal regulators defending Delta’s control of dozens of gates at the three airports serving New York City. He was responding to five smaller airlines’ written complaint that they don’t have enough slots.
