As general counsel for construction and architecture company The Beck Group, Tonya Johannsen has legal tasks that can change with the economy. Like most companies in the industry, Beck had to deal with a business downturn during the recession that began in 2008.
“Some of the projects we had going, the owners involved went into bankruptcy,” she said. “That created a lot of issues because we had subcontractors, and our mission was to get the subcontractors paid. That was quite challenging. We were still busy, but it was a different kind of busy. It was less positive, more in a control-the-damage kind of a way.
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