Lawyer Pay
What White House Attorneys Earned in Practice and as Law Profs
Posted Apr 9, 2009, 05:17 pm CST
By Martha Neil
Financial disclosure forms filed by the many lawyers newly appointed by President Barack Obama to White House jobs provide a motherlode of information about what they were earning in their former BigLaw, in-house counsel and law professor gigs.
Among the financial info provided, according to the Blog of Legal Times:
Norman Eisen (aka "Mr. No"), who now serves as special counsel to the president for ethics and government reform, earned $1.3 million as a Zuckerman Spaeder partner.
Principal deputy counsel Daniel Meltzer made $371,454 at Harvard Law School, where he was both a law professor and a vice dean in charge of the physical plant.
Susan Sher took home $718,477 from the University of Chicago Medical Center, serving as general counsel and vice president for legal and governmental affairs. She is now associate counsel to the president and counsel to the first lady.
And, as Williams & Connolly associates, Jonathan Kravis made $220,000 and Christian Weideman made $310,000. Both are now associate counsel at the White House.
Related coverage:
ABAJournal.com: "White House Counsel’s Partner Pay Last Year Was $1.7M"
Chicago Tribune: "White House wealth: President Barack Obama's team virtually all Chicago millionaires"
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