Raking It In

Here’s our list of the nation’s 100 highest-paid general counsel. We ranked them according to their cash compensation-salary plus bonus/nonequity incentive compensation-in fiscal year 2008.

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Boston, MA 02109

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Houston, TX 77008

(713) 739-1250

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