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Mark Machi was named Vice President and General Counsel of Paragon Systems in July 2005. Mr. Machi serves as the chief legal officer of the company and is responsible for all aspects of Paragon's legal affairs. Previously, Mr. Machi was Vice President and General Counsel of a security services firm where he managed the legal and human resources departments for the company's nearly 1,500 federally trained security officers. Prior to this, he was an attorney in Washington, D.C. at the firms of Steptoe & Johnson LLP and Venable LLP, where he provided legal services to corporate and individual clients, and counseled employers on a wide-variety of workplace issues.
Mr. Machi holds a LLM degree from the Georgetown University Law Center, a Juris Doctor degree, Order of the Coif, from the University of Maryland School of Law, and a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California, Santa Cruz. After law school, Mr. Machi was a law clerk to U.S. Magistrate Judges Susan Gauvey and Paul Grimm of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland. He is licensed to practice law in the District of Columbia and Maryland. | 