Compensation

Law Firm Bonus Race Heats Up

Associate bonuses are nearly back to pre-recession levels, at least in Chicago. There even have been a few “$100,000 thank-yous,” […]

Key Employee-Benefit Provisions In Last-Minute 2014 Laws

In December, President Obama signed two cryptically named pieces of legislation, shorthanded as “the Cromnibus” and “the Extender Act.” The […]

Rare Dissent At SEC May Signal Disclosure Crackdown

Aguilar said he considered the settlement emblematic of a broader trend, in which fraud charges are downgraded to books and records and internal control charges.

The Rich Are Getting Richer, And The Poor… You Know The Rest

The trend has far-reaching implications, for everything from city planning and healthcare to the design and marketing of consumer products: […]

Gender Gap Persists In Billing Rates, Study Finds

Billing rates for female lawyers were about 10 percent lower on average than those  of their male counterparts, a study […]

Compensation Committees Inner Workings Revealed

How do boards determine CEO pay? A study by David De Angelis of Rice University and Yaniv Grinstein of the […]

Top CEOs Make 331 Times More Than Average Worker

Standard& & Poor’s 500 companies pay their chief executives 331 times that of the average production and nonsupervisory worker, according […]

Senate Bill Would Curtail Executive Compensation Tax Deductions

Executive compensation is under fire in a proposed Senate bill that would significantly limit deductibility of C-Suite paychecks over $1 […]

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