AT&T’s Legal Chief Sees Pay Top $12 Million Amid Challenges

April 8, 2024, 6:56 PM UTC

Longtime AT&T Inc. general counsel David McAtee II saw his pay package increase for the second straight year.

McAtee earned almost $12.4 million in total compensation last year, according to a proxy statement filed April 5. That’s up nearly 10% from the previous year.

McAtee has been involved in a wide range of issues in his nearly decade-long tenure as the telecommunications giant’s lead in-house lawyer. He handled the fallout from the company’s disclosure of payments to former President Donald Trump’s ex-personal lawyer Michael Cohen and worked on the unwinding of AT&T’s ill-fated $85 billion acquisition of Time Warner Inc. ...

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