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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 [...]
Best Practices for General Counsel Succession Planning
Like other executives, General Counsel are tasked with identifying and developing their successor. While hiring a new General Counsel from the outside can be costly, [...]
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 Trends study shows that male GCs earned 18.6% more than their [...]
Diversity Drives Business Performance
The results of a recent global survey of more than 1,700 companies published in the Harvard Business Review showed that diversity has a favorable impact on [...]
The 2019 GC Compensation Survey: Pay’s Moving On Up
The compensation king is back. For the second year in a row, Morgan Stanley chief legal officer Eric Grossman is America’s top paid legal executive. According to our 2019 [...]
The Compliance Officer’s Guide to 2019 Compensation Trends
Now more than ever, compliance leaders across all industries are expanding their role from that of a watchdog and enforcer to a strategic advisor with [...]
