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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-24-215205"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: null
cik: "0001393612"
company_name: "Discover Financial Services"
filed_at: "2024-09-06T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-31T06:03:20.702651+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Discover Chief Legal Officer Hope Mehlman to resign; will remain through merger or Nov 29

## Summary
- Hope D. Mehlman, EVP & Chief Legal Officer, notified resignation to accept outside position.
- Mehlman to remain through earlier of Capital One merger close or November 29, 2024.
- Sign-on bonus repayment waived; subject to staying through effective date without resignation/termination.
- Company may pay lump sum of $850,000 – $1,000,000 contingent on continued service and conditions.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-24-215205
- form_type: 8-K
- cik: 0001393612
- company_name: Discover Financial Services
- filed_at: 2024-09-06T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1393612/000119312524215205/0001193125-24-215205-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1393612/000119312524215205/d893435d8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-24-215205
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-24-215205.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-24-215205.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Hope D. Mehlman resigned as Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary at Discover Financial Services.
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary
  source text: On August 30, 2024, Discover Financial Services (the “ Company ”) was notified by Hope D. Mehlman, the Company’s Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, of her intent to resign from the Company to accept a position with another company.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1393612/000119312524215205/0001193125-24-215205-index.htm

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