Very interesting Globe piece—one doesn’t often type those four words consecutively—on Raymond Cotton, a Washington lawyer who helps college/university presidents negotiate their contracts—and their perks.

Cotton, who is based in Washington, D.C., helped make former Suffolk University president David Sargent one of the highest-paid college presidents in the nation under an agreement that is now the subject of an IRS audit. He also crafted a contract that gave outgoing UMass president Jack Wilson a yearlong sabbatical at full presidential pay after he left the post, a perk UMass hired Cotton to review as an outside arbiter two months ago….