A Virginia-based lawyer has been recognized in a recent survey as the nation’s highest paid general counsel.
Denise Keane, executive vice president and general counsel of Richmond-based Altria Group Inc., earned $6.5 million in total compensation last year, according to ALM Corporate Counsel’s 2011 GC Compensation Survey. The survey ranked the 100 best-paid in-house lawyers [...]
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Altria’s Keane ranked nation’s best-paid GC
July 20th, 2011 · Comments Off · in-house lawyers
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New Web site lets in-house counsel rate outside firms
November 13th, 2009 · Comments Off · corporate counsel, in-house lawyers
Hoping to give in-house lawyers a powerful tool to assess outside legal help, the Association of Corporate Counsel has unveiled a Web site that grades law firms on how well they perform and whether they stay within budget.
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Benchmarks for the board room: corporate counsel metrics
October 24th, 2007 · Comments Off · corporate counsel, in-house lawyers
“How’m I doing?” was former New York City Mayor Ed Koch’s trademark greeting to his constituents.
Lawyers may ask themselves the same question.
Lawyers who labor in a law firm often use the almighty billable hour as their primary measure of productivity.
But an attorney who works for a corporation may come at that billable-hour standard from the [...]
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