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Corporate Counsel

In-House Compensation Slipped Last Year After Frothy 2021

"When you're comparing it to a record year it does look down, but overall compensation was actually still strong," said Mary Rombaut, managing director of research and analytics at BarkerGilmore.
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Corporate Counsel

DoorDash Attorney's Promotion to GC Earned Her $15M Stock Grant

Tia Sherringham took the legal reins in January 2022 after the food-delivery company promoted her boss to chief business officer.
3 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Twilio Welcomed Impossible Foods' Legal Chief With $13M New-Hire Stock Grant

Twilio Chief Legal Officer Dana Wagner also received a massive stock grant as part of his normal 2022 compensation. The two awards left his pay just shy of that of Apple GC Kate Adams.
2 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Alphabet Legal Chief's Pay Surged 66% in 2022

Kent Walker earned nearly $10 million more than he did in 2021, but it was only half of what he made in 2020.
2 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Sirius XM Showered Millions of Dollars on GC for Extending Contract

The equity-based awards connected to Patrick Donnelly's new employment agreement boosted his 2022 total compensation to nearly triple what he earned a year earlier.
2 minute read

Corporate Counsel

DocuSign Greeted New Legal Chief With a $13 Million Stock Award

James Shaughnessy joined the electronic signature company from Workday in May 2022.
3 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Former Gartner GC Jules Kaufman's Exit Package Topped $1 Million

Gartner did not give a reason for why it decided to part ways with Kaufman, its general counsel of five years, though a Securities and Exchange Commission filing said "There has been no disagreement between Mr. Kaufman and Gartner around strategy, financials or business practices."
2 minute read

Corporate Counsel

As Crocs Sales Soar, GC Announces Retirement

General Counsel Daniel Hart helped engineer a $2.5 billion acquisition a year ago, a deal that helped the maker of slip-in clogs rack up record 2022 sales.
2 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Amazon GC's Seesaw Compensation Went Way, Way Up in 2022

Periodic stock grants account for nearly all executive pay at the e-commerce and cloud-storage giant. A year earlier, general counsel David Zapolsky did not receive a stock grant, leaving him with total compensation of just $163,000.
2 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Hertz Reveals Pay for New GC Who Helped Steer It Through Legal Crisis

When Colleen Batcheler gave up her 16-year career at Conagra Brands to join the rental-car giant, it had recently exited bankruptcy but faced hundreds of lawsuits from customers who were wrongly accused of stealing its cars.
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