General Counsel Company (City) Title Estimated 2007 Compensation 2007 Company Revenues Charles W. Matthews Exxon Mobil Corp. (Irving) vice president and general counsel less than $8,419,965 (equity valued at $3,645,262) $390.3 billion Michael C. Nichols Sysco Corp. (Houston) senior vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary less than $5,359,937 (equity valued at $806,432) $35.0 billion Frank G. McDonald XTO Energy Inc. (Fort Worth) senior vice president, general counsel and assistant secretary less than $4,766,131 (equity valued at $2,997,522) $5.5 billion Jennifer L. Vogel Continental Airlines Inc. (Houston) senior vice president, general counsel, secretary and chief compliance officer less than $4,250,873 (equity valued at $2,298,255) $14.2 billion Edmund S. Gross CVR Energy Inc. (Sugar Land) senior vice president, general counsel and secretary less than $2,770,059 (none in equity compensation) $3.0 billion Alan Utay Alliance Data Systems Corp. (Dallas) executive vice president, chief administrative officer, general counsel and secretary less than $2,538,836 (equity valued at $1,512,566) $2.3 billion Carlos M. Hernandez Fluor Corp. (Irving) chief legal officer and secretary less than $2,391,851 (equity valued at $678,618) $16.7 billion William F. Schwind Jr. Marathon Oil Corp. (Houston) vice president, general counsel and secretary less than $2,315,504 (equity valued at $594,921) $64.6 billion Arnold J. Johnson Noble Energy Inc. (Houston) vice president, general counsel and secretary less than $2,246,391 (equity valued at $728,341) $3.3 billion P. Anthony Lannie Apache Corp. (Houston) senior vice president and general counsel less than $1,970,582 (equity valued at $380,339) $10.0 billion S. Theis Rice Trinity Industries Inc. (Dallas) chief legal officer less than $1,943,176 (equity valued at $681,693) $3.8 billion Donald C. Wayne Exterran Holdings Inc. (Houston) senior vice president, general counsel and secretary less than $1,901,918 (equity valued at $1,376,429) $2.5 billion Andrew W. Levin Clear Channel Communications Inc. (San Antonio) executive vice president and chief legal officer less than $1,869,175 (equity valued at $933,147) $6.9 billion John D. Marziotti Newfield Exploration Co. (Houston) general counsel less than $1,826,278 (equity valued at $573,441) $1.8 billion Jeffrey W. Carr FMC Technologies Inc. (Houston) vice president, general counsel and secretary less than $1,787,573 (equity valued at $824,962) $2.9 billion Kim Bowers Valero Energy Corp. (San Antonio) senior vice president and general counsel less than $1,778,920 (equity valued at $715,625) $95.3 billion Rick L. Wittenbraker Waste Management Inc. (Houston) senior vice president, general counsel and chief compliance officer less than $1,777,758 (equity valued at $643,628) $13.3 billion Ronald F. Shuft Flowserve Corp. (Irving) senior vice president, secretary and general counsel less than $1,728,030 (equity valued at $745,580) $3.8 billion C. Morris Davis Temple-Inland Inc. (Austin) general counsel less than $1,697,875 (equity valued at $614,182) $3.0 billion Thomas J. Mielke Kimberly-Clark Corp. (Dallas) senior vice president-law and government affairs and chief compliance officer less than $1,640,700 (equity valued at $427,407) $18.3 billion Richard E. Chandler Jr. Smith International Inc. (Houston) senior vice president, general counsel and secretary less than $1,588,370 (equity valued at $987,285) $8.8 billion Cary A. Moomjian ENSCO International Inc. (Dallas) vice president, general counsel and secretary less than $1,435,054 (equity valued at $686,190) $2.1 billion Randy D. Rinicella HCC Insurance Holdings Inc. (Houston) senior vice president and general counsel less than $1,417,011 (equity valued at $439,427) $2.0 billion Daniel Kaufman GameStop Corp. (Grapevine) senior vice president and general counsel less than $1,404,524( equity valued at $766,189) $7.1 billion Nelson A. Bangs Neiman Marcus Inc. (Dallas) senior vice president and general counsel less than $1,303,190 (equity valued at $395,744) $4.4 billion Tana L. Pool Quanta Services Inc. (Houston) vice president and general counsel less than $1,062,421 (equity valued at $296,422) $2.7 billion Michael Cavalier Cinemark Holdings Inc. (Plano) senior vice president, general counsel and secretary less than $651,987 (equity valued at $270,244) $1.1 billion Hilary Molay Zale Corp. (Irving) senior vice president, general counsel and secretary less than $626,257 (equity valued at $241,804) $2.4 billion E.C. Kaitson Enbridge Energy Partners L.P. (Houston) vice president law and deputy general counsel less than $606,209 (equity valued at $188,895) $7.3 billion Phillip H. Watts U.S. Oncology Holdings (Houston) general counsel less than $447,177 (no equity compensation) $3.0 billion Ted I. Harbour D.R. Horton (Fort Worth) chief legal officer less than $436,652 (equity valued at $152,121) $11.3 billion Kenneth S. Barrow Benchmark Electronics Inc. (Angleton) general counsel and corporate secretary less than $392,111 (equity valued at $96,956) $2.9 billion
Sources: proxy statements, 10-k reports and corporate press releases Texas Lawyer, October 2008