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NY Recruiter Launches Consultancy with Top Fortune 500
BarkerGilmore, best known as a Rochester, New York-based recruiting firm that specializes in placing in-house attorneys, announced on Monday a dozen former general counsel and chief compliance officers, mostly [...]
12 Distinguished GCs and CCOs Join BarkerGilmore Executive Search Firm
(May 8, 2017) BarkerGilmore, a New York-based boutique executive search firm specializing in building corporate legal and compliance teams from the top down, announced a strategic [...]
7 Keys Propelling General Counsel to Success
First and foremost, I would like to thank so many readers for their kind remarks and endorsement of the recent article 14 Top Mistakes Made [...]
The General Counsel as Chief Executive
The General Counsel’s role is being transformed by what can be termed the “professional convergence revolution”. Breakthrough innovation mostly happens when diverse groups of people, [...]
14 Top Mistakes Made by New In-house Counsel
After reading and writing many articles on best practices for in-house counsel and compliance officers, I decided to look at development from a different angle. [...]
6 Tips for Interviewing In-House Counsel
The most talented person for your position typically falls into one of two categories: perfectly happy and well treated by his or her current employer, [...]
5 Tips for Selecting the Right CCO Candidate
Every senior level search, whether conducted by an internal recruitment team or led by a third-party search consultant, should start with the simple and obvious [...]
Using EQ as a Predictor of In-House Counsel Success
When emotional intelligence (EQ) burst on the scene in the 1990s, it was seen as the answer to the troubling observation that IQ alone was [...]
Top Reasons to Consider a Specialty Boutique Search Firm
Any businessperson over 50 years old should be able to remember when IT professionals rationalized their love affair with IBM mainframes with the simple explanation: [...]
Building an Effective Corporate Compliance Department
Compliance departments have traditionally been essential on Wall Street, in banking and insurance, healthcare, and other highly regulated industries. As the burden of regulations has [...]
How to Determine the Right GC Compensation
Whether you’re working to hire a General Counsel (GC) successor, or your first GC, finding and attracting the right candidates are the first priorities, demanding [...]
How to Find and Attract the Right GC Candidate – Part 2 of 2
In our last article on this topic, we focused on the upfront planning work required when you’re hiring a new GC (How to Find and [...]
