Law

2025 GC Pay Report: Why So Many Legal Chiefs Feel in the Dark About What They'll Earn

Companies went all in on tying stock grants to achieving specific performance targets—so much so that even general counsel were finding their pay shaped by the performance of business units over which ...
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2025 GC Pay Report: Women Scoring Big Paydays, but Men Still Landing Most of the Plum Jobs

When women land Fortune 1000 general counsel posts, the pay they collect is on par with what men earn. But men still are landing the vast majority of the jobs, and progress in narrowing that gap ...
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NLRB GC Memo Circles Back on Noncompetes and “Stay-or-Pay” Provisions in Employment Agreements

On October 7, 2024, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo issued GC Memorandum 25-01: “Remedying the Harmful Effects of Non-Compete and “Stay-or-Pay” Provisions ...
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NLRB GC Abruzzo Issues Memo Calling for Harsher Remedies for Noncompetes and Stay or Pay Provisions That Violate the NLRA

On October 7, 2024, the National Labor Relations Board’s (“NLRB” or the “Board”) General Counsel, Jennifer Abruzzo, released MEMORANDUM GC 25-01, titled “Remedying the Harmful Effects of Non-Compete ...