Protecting secrets, anticipating foreign unrest, and keeping watch over severe weather events may sound like the job description of an Army general. But those same checklists kick in when global firms face catastrophes, as White & Case CIO Tony Cordeiro has learned.
The 1,800-attorney firm is based in New York but has offices throughout the United States and in 25 other countries. Over the past decade, the firm has directly experienced nearly every kind of disaster and associated recovery possible — the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks; the Aug. 14, 2003, U.S. Northeast and Midwest blackouts; the Dec. 26, 2004, earthquake, tsunami, and subsequent flooding in Asia; and the Aug. 29, 2005, landfall of Hurricane Katrina on the Gulf Coast, to name the worst of them.
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