BarkerGilmore is a boutique firm specializing in in-house legal and compliance executive search, leadership development, and consulting. With a network of advisors and recruiters spanning the United States, BarkerGilmore consistently places exceptional talent at leading consumer, energy, financial, healthcare, industrial, and technology companies. In addition, as a prominent thought leader within the legal industry, BarkerGilmore has released various reports to inform the conversations on in-house counsel compensation, succession planning, and the role of the General Counsel as both a legal advisor and business partner.
How to Land a Board Seat
Many lawyers think that being an attorney makes it harder to get on a corporate board – truth or myth? [...]
Do I Want to Become a Public Company GC?
Strategic Advisor and Coach Michelle Banks, Managing Partner John Gilmore, and Carolyn Herzog discussed differences between public and private company GC roles [...]
1 Industry Pays Certain Women In-House Counsel More Than Men
While the gender pay gap for in-house counsel stubbornly persists, something different—and, perhaps, encouraging—appears to be happening within the [...]
Women Led a Third of Fortune 500 Legal Departments in 2019
Women led 33% of Fortune 500 legal departments in 2019, up from 28% a year earlier, according to legal [...]
Journey to Best-in-Class: A Roadmap to Improving the Law Department’s Effectiveness and Efficiency
Strategic Advisors and Coaches Gjon Nivica and Marla Persky shared best practices for law departments to become more effective and efficient in how they [...]
Reframing Value: A New Paradigm for Law Firm Compensation
In my last year as a general counsel of a large public company, we were embroiled in a complicated [...]
BarkerGilmore Adds Longtime MasterCard General Counsel to Its Senior Adviser Slate
Noah Hanft, the former general counsel of MasterCard, has been made a senior adviser at BarkerGilmore and will give guidance to [...]
BarkerGilmore Adds Former MasterCard Worldwide Executive to Strategic Advisor and Coach Roster
Noah Hanft, who most recently served as General Counsel, Corporate Secretary and Chief Franchise Officer for MasterCard Worldwide, has [...]
BarkerGilmore’s GC Advantage to Help Foster Collaboration Between In-House Leaders
For the past three years, BarkerGilmore has had its advisers work with in-house counsel on how to better interact [...]
General Counsel Comp Continues to Rise, Study Finds
A report by Equilar and search firm BarkerGilmore states that over the past five years there has been a [...]
Change at the Start: How Law Firm Origination Credit Still Hurts In-House Counsel Diversity Focus
Who receives origination credit at a law firm still impedes in-house counsel’s efforts to promote diversity and inclusion within [...]
Gender Pay Gap for General Counsel Has Grown, Study Says
The gender pay gap for U.S.-based general counsel is widening, according to a new report. Equilar’s latest General Counsel Pay [...]
