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‘An outstanding general counsel’, Kyle Campbell is praised for his understanding of federal construction and the significant cost savings he has made to Straub since his arrival in 2008. As the company’s first in-house lawyer and a member of its executive committee, Campbell was required to provide centralized legal and risk support and promote a more consistent approach. One of his biggest achievements in-house, Campbell says, has been his role in negotiating several joint venture and teaming agreements, which he explains, ‘have expanded Straub’s ability to successfully compete in new segments of the federal construction market and on projects of greater size, complexity and scope’. As far as law firms go, he says he would sometimes like ‘more definitive advice’. ‘I know the outside counsel we retain are experts in their fields,’ he adds. ‘But not being insiders to the company, they seem to hold back from providing direction at times’.