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Corporate Counsel Magazine: GC Compensation Inches Up

July 20, 2015 Mark Curriden

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By Mark Curriden

(July 20) – The general counsel at 20 of the largest Texas businesses earned $1 million or more during 2014, according to a new study conducted by Corporate Counsel magazine.

Texas-based companies employ 13 of the 100 highest paid chief legal officers and 33 of the top 350. The general counsel at AT&T, Baker Hughes, Energy Future Holdings and Marathon Oil earned more than $2 million a year in salary, bonuses and stock options, according to Corporate Counsel, which is an American Lawyer publication.

A full list of the compensation of general counsel in Texas is below.

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The nation’s highest paid GCs are those at Walt Disney, General Electric and Time Warner. Each made $6 million or more during 2014.

KKR GC David Sorkin had a total take home $14.9 million, which includes $12 million in exercised stock options.

None of the top 18 general counsel were from Texas-based companies. You may read the entire article here: www.corpcounsel.com.

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Mark Curriden

Mark Curriden is a lawyer/journalist and founder of The Texas Lawbook. In addition, he is a contributing legal correspondent for The Dallas Morning News.

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