Mark M. Chloupek is an up-to-the-minute kind of lawyer. When he hires outside counsel, he expects to know what they know, when they know it.

“As much as I don’t micromanage what they are doing, I want to know everything they are doing,” says Chloupek, executive vice president legal and general counsel of Irving-based LQ Management. “I want to be copied on everything, every step of the way. I need to know everything, at all times.”