When Pat Tagtow heard the general counsel for a major corporation speak at a Chicago middle school’s “Career Day” about his international law career and the traveling he did on the job, Tagtow made the decision to become a lawyer.

“It was then that I absolutely fixated on becoming a lawyer and an in-house lawyer, and nothing more interesting came up,” recalled Tagtow, now senior vice president, general counsel, corporate secretary and chief compliance and ethics officer for BMC Software Inc., which has its headquarters in Houston.

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