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Corporate Counsel

GCs Receiving Lofty Pay Hikes, but Expectations Are Soaring, Too

"You need to be the person who can walk into a room and capture everyone's attention, deliver your message in a way that people listen to, trust, and are inspired by," said John Gilmore, managing partner of the search firm BarkerGilmore.
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Corporate Counsel

Fox's Viet Dinh Nearly Set Pay Record in Final Year as Legal Chief

Dinh stepped down as legal chief in December, eight months after Fox agreed to pay $787 million to settle a defamation sought brought by Dominion Voting Systems.
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Corporate Counsel

Oracle Legal Chief Outearns CEO, as He Dazzles in First Full Year at Tech Giant

CEO Safra Catz called Stuart Levey "one of the sharpest legal minds in the country" when she hired Levey two years ago. The company is paying him accordingly.
3 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Special Section: 2024 GC Compensation

In The Legal's GC Compensation supplement, find out how general counsel fared across the state and take a look at some trends and lessons learned…
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The Legal Intelligencer

Compensation for Pa.'s Top GCs Takes Positive Turn With Increases All Around

Coming off of a year that saw a slight drop in numbers for several key compensation metrics in Pennsylvania, in 2023 things took a positive turn. Clear gains were reported for the highest-paid GCs in the state.
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Law.com

The Week in Data Sept. 13: A Look at Legal Industry Trends by the Numbers

Catch up on this week's data and insights from across the Law.com Newsroom, including the growth of in-house signing bonuses and how midlevel associates grade their firms.
1 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Ex-Twitter GC Joins Match Group as Legal Chief

Sean Edgett had been at Twitter a decade when Elon Musk bought it for $44 billion in 2022 and immediately fired him and the rest of the leadership team.
3 minute read

Corporate Counsel

2024 GC Pay Report: Signing Bonuses Swell in Size as Companies Shy Away From Internal Hires

"If you have to throw millions of dollars at somebody before they start work, and then they start work and it doesn't work out, you are up the creek because you've paid them a lot of money," legal department consultant Jason Winmill said. "Sunk costs are exactly that—sunk."
7 minute read

Corporate Counsel

2024 GC Pay Report: $20M Club Shrinks, but Not Average Compensation

Netflix was an outlier in revamping its pay practices in a year when robust stock market returns left investors disinclined to second guess boards.
12 minute read

Corporate Counsel

2024 GC Pay Report: The Full List, From No. 1 to No. 526

In a quirk that's unlikely to be repeated, one legal chief from Big Tech tops the rankings and another lands at the very bottom.
1 minute read

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