CEO super-agents: clique plays hardball for mobile executive talent, like AT&T's axed prez

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Highly paid corporate executives are increasingly hiring attorneys to handle the negotiation of their complex compensation packages, much as athletes employ sports agents. Joseph E. Bachelder of New York, NY devotes his entire practice to negotiating employment contracts for top executives. Robert J. Stucker, president of Chicago, IL law firm Vedder, Price, Kaufman, Kammholz & Day, specializes in negotiating executive termination agreements. Bachelder, Stucker and other executive compensation specialists are blamed by some for the large salary and benefit packages commonly awarded to top corporate officials.

Attorneys, Compensation and benefits, Negotiation, mediation and arbitration, Executives, Executive compensation, Wages, Wages and salaries, Legal specialization, Labor contracts, states, Stucker, Robert J., Bachelder, Joseph E.

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He's everywhere he wants to be. (Bennett R. Katz, group executive vice president, general counsel and secretary, Visa International)

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Bennett R Katz, the group executive vice pres, general counsel and secretary of Visa International, the parent of the well-known Visa USA with about 5,000 employees and nearly 600 mil credit and debbit cardholders all over the world, directs a department of 25 lawyers performing all general corporate matters, contracts, trademarks and antitrust issues. Visa USA and Mastercard International are defendants in a suit charging them with trying to monopolize their industry and that high credit card interest rates result from this loss of competition.

United States, Attorneys, Management, Officials and employees, Lawyers, Corporate counsel, Visa Inc., Katz, Bennett R.

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Big Six in hot pursuit of legal biz; major law firms lose stars, market share to accountants

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Legal areas traditionally handled by law firms are increasingly being handled by the Big Six accounting firms. While US laws prohibit the unauthorized practice of law, accounting firms are taking advantage of less stringent laws in Europe and elsewhere to move in on business usually handled by attorneys. Mergers and acquisitions business is an area in which accounting firms have gained market share at the expense of law firms.

Accounting, auditing, & bookkeeping, Accounting & Auditing Services, Accounting, Tax Preparation, Bookkeeping, and Payroll Services, Market share, Accounting firms, Accounting services, Law firms, Accountants, International law

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