Many CDOs earn salaries equivalent to other senior roles like chief marketing officer or chief legal counsel.

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At the high-tech startup he backed, he saw a strong chief financial officer and a strong chief legal counsel monitoring the liability side.

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The chief privacy counsel, chief legal officer, former CFO, and a marketing executive are being tried in Milan for defamation and privacy violations, reports the New York Times.

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So I reached out to my friend John DeGroote of Settlement Perspectives, a former in-house counsel and Chief Legal Officer who knew far more about corporate interests than I ever would.

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"These cases are saying, 'If the manufacturer had just included one more warning, I wouldn't have taken the drug, '" says Richard Samp, chief counsel of the conservative Washington Legal Foundation.

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One major public announcement was that of the First Minister's nomination for the post of Counsel General, the government's chief legal adviser.

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