My first reaction was "duh—like this is news?" But after looking at the numbers a bit more closely, I'm not quite so blasé. I'm actually a bit angry. So I'm taking back the "duh" and replacing it with "WTF!"

Sibling publication Corporate Counsel just released its 2013 Law Department Compensation Benchmarking Survey, and this is the deal: Women who hold the top legal position in the company are compensated less—quite a bit less—than their male counterparts.

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