WSJ on Lawyer Salaries at Top Corporations

“Lawyers Get Big Raises At Top Corporations“: Kara Scannell for the Wall Street Journal today reports on how general counsels received the biggest pay raises in decades in 2002. (Subscription required.) The article quotes Robin Sparkman, editor-in-chief of Corporate Counsel magazine, which conducted the survey that runs in the August issue, as saying that this is a “good gauge industrywide of how companies are taking their general counsel much more seriously.” The article reports Sarbanes-Oxley compliance as being one of the main reasons for the rise in pay.