There are various factors that determine a lawyer’s salary, including his or her clientele, reputation, experience and location of practice areas.
Attorneys working in major cities tend to earn higher salaries and typically have larger client bases.
David Boies
Boies is revered throughout the legal community as an icon, his soft-spoken demeanor belying his clever, even ruthless legal mind. Based out of Armonk, he has received much acclaim for his work on high-profile cases such as his 1998 antitrust suit against Microsoft that he led.
Recently, he has represented disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein and Elizabeth Holmes – founder of failed blood testing company Theranos. As such, his firm’s handling of both clients has led many former admirers of his work to criticize how their firm handled them.
John Boies, a 1966 Yale Law School graduate, is one of the few lawyers ever to win both Time magazine Lawyer of the Year and Person of the Year awards in one year. His firm represents Altria Group Inc, Apple, CBS DuPont FDIC HSBC IBM Michael Moore New York Yankees professional sports teams U.S. Virgin Islands as well as representing plaintiffs in class action lawsuits.
Daniel Petrocelli
Daniel Petrocelli, an O’Melveny & Myers trial lawyer and chairman of its national trial practice committee, appears confident and decisive when handling cases related to business, securities, employment law and entertainment law. And indeed he does know his stuff: the highpowered trial lawyer represents clients across a spectrum of areas including business, securities, employment law and entertainment law.
Los Angeles-based attorney Joseph Khoury, honored as both Litigator of the Year by American Lawyer in 2022 and Lawyer of the Decade by Daily Journal in 2010, has become a ubiquitous presence in courtrooms around Los Angeles. Khoury has taken on high-profile corporate clients such as former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling’s criminal case as well as Walmart’s massive mass tort cases.
He represents high-profile celebrities and public figures, such as rapper Travis Scott who faces over 120 civil wrongful death, personal injury and premises liability lawsuits in relation to last summer’s fatal Astroworld incident in Corpus Christi that claimed one life while injuring many more – an incident for which he reportedly charges $1500 an hour as legal fees.
John Finley
Finley has developed and led global legal, compliance, audit, privacy and regulatory affairs programs across diverse domestic and international jurisdictions and regulatory environments. For 22 years he was also a partner at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett where he served on their Executive Committee as well as co-heading their Global Mergers & Acquisitions practice.
Finley has an impressive public service record beyond his law firm work. He was appointed trustee of the Charity of Edward Hopkins and currently sits on the boards of Memorial Church and Open Gate Foundation. Furthermore, Finley provides advice to the American Law Institute’s Restatement of Corporate Governance project as an adviser and serves on Harvard Law School’s Dean’s Advisory Board as a member.
Finley was an ardent Red Wings supporter who regularly attended games at Joe Louis Arena, as well as being an avid Catholic who strongly believed in family values.
Kathryn King Sudol
Kathryn King Sudol is a partner at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett and oversees their global mergers and acquisitions practice group. On September 6, she will join KKR as general counsel, taking over for David Sorkin who will become chief legal officer and then transition into advisory partner status at the end of Q1 2023.
Sudol provides advice to private equity, public and sovereign clients on a wide range of high-stake merger and acquisition transactions and private equity investments, such as leveraged buyouts, going private transactions, minority and strategic investments and joint ventures. She has been recognized by multiple legal guides as one of the premier M&A lawyers and serves on both Simpson Thacher’s executive committee and business development committees.
According to SEC filings, this person owns one company: KKR & Co Inc (KKR). Click here to see all of this individual’s form 4 insider trades.
