SAN FRANCISCO — The Bay Area is home to a number of high-profile female general counsel, from LinkedIn's Erika Rottenberg to Oracle's Dorian Daley.
And approximately 20 percent of the GC posts at California companies in the Fortune 1000 are held by women, according to a new survey by the Minority Corporate Counsel Association. Nationwide, women hold roughly the same proportion of those jobs. At the highest-earning U.S. companies, there are 189 female chief legal officers, up three over last year's survey. They work alongside just 20 women — like Hewlett-Packard's Meg Whitman, IBM's Virginia Rommety and Yahoo's Marissa Mayer — running the nation's top companies.
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