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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 headhunting firm BarkerGilmore. Fifty-six lawyers were appointed to a new [...]
7 Trends for Fortune 500 General Counsel Appointments in 2019
Every year, we see approximately 10% of Fortune 500 companies appoint a new General Counsel. In 2019, 56 lawyers were appointed to the enterprise GC [...]
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 deliver service that results in value to the customer, and [...]
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 international transaction that required tax advice under time pressure. I [...]
Meet Strategic Advisor and Coach, Michael Williams, Former EVP, CLO and Secretary of Staples, Inc.
Michael Williams most recently served as the Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer & Secretary of Staples, Inc., while the Massachusetts-based company was the largest office [...]
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 in-house clients. Hanft said for years he has informally given [...]
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 joined the advisory and coaching division of BarkerGilmore, a New [...]
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 with the C-suite and board of directors. Now, the firm [...]
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 7.4 percent increase in general counsel median total compensation. That [...]
Strategies for Paying and Retaining Top General Counsel: Webinar Recording
Our recent webinar showcased an expert panel discussing how growth in responsibilities and influence impacts recruitment and pay for top legal talent, based on findings [...]
Benchmarking General Counsel Compensation
General Counsel pay continues to rise at an accelerated rate, keeping pace with the increased expectations that the CEO and Board place upon them. It [...]
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 the firms they work with—almost a decade after major bar [...]
