General Counsel Comp: In-House Bonuses Soaring Sky High (2020)
“While a great number of people believe that in-house lawyers earn less than their Biglaw counterparts, top in-house attorneys — the general counsel of America’s largest companies — often earn sums that exceed Biglaw partner pay,” writes Staci Zarestsky in Above the Law’s In-House Counsel.
The article takes a look at “Corporate Counsel’s latest survey of the nation’s best-paid general counsel, a ranking that pulls together all the money that GCs make in total cash compensation, which is a combination of base salary, cash bonus, and nonequity incentives.”
Read the article to see how general counsels’ compensation has changed since last year’s survey.
