Arthur Siskind

{{short description|American lawyer and businessperson (born 1938)}}

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Arthur Siskind (born 11 October 1938) is an American lawyer and businessperson. He has been an executive director of the News Corporation since 1991. He served as their group general counsel from March 1991 until December 2004. He was succeeded by Lawrence Jacobs. Siskind remains on News Corporation's board of directors and continues to serve the company as senior advisor to the chairman.[http://www.newscorp.com/news/news_228.html General Counsel to Retire from] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120324102509/http://www.newscorp.com/news/news_228.html |date=2012-03-24 }} NewsCorp

As executive director of New Corp., his salary was $1.7 million with a $5 million annual bonus in 2005.[https://people.forbes.com/profile/arthur-m-siskind/56499 Arthur M. Siskind profile] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120209232017/http://people.forbes.com/profile/arthur-m-siskind/56499 |date=2012-02-09 }} from Forbes

He graduated from Cornell University. Siskind became an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center in 2005 and has been a member of the bar of the State of New York since 1962.