Pay packages are growing for some of the best compensated legal department leaders in the land, according to Corporate Counsel’s 2017 General Counsel Compensation Survey. It’s a sign that as GCs grow in strategic importance to their companies, remuneration can grow as well. The report also revealed there’s also a new compensation champion in town.
In this year’s report, a female is at the No. 1 spot on the list of the 100 highest-paid general counsel. She topped the list once before, six years ago, and is the only woman to have made it to the top since ALM Legal Intelligence, a Corporate Counsel affiliate, began compiling the report in 1994.
