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How Does Your In-House Counsel Compensation Compare?
As key players in the executive search industry, our team is exposed to both sides of the coin when it comes to compensation. On a [...]
Creating Your Legal Department’s Vision and Mission to Shape Strategy
Strategic Direction For Your Corporate Legal Department Yogi Berra once said, “If you don’t know where you’re going, you’ll end up someplace else.” [i] This [...]
The Importance of Courage for In-House Counsel
Legal leaders in a corporate setting must have the courage to speak up and prevent stupid or potentially illegal things from happening. […]
The Most Revealing Interview Question
Without a doubt, the best part of my job is speaking with accomplished leaders. Whether interviewing someone for a high-level search or learning about the [...]
Assessing Your Legal Department to Improve Effectiveness, Efficiency and Value
Download your complimentary copy of Assessing Your Legal Department to Improve Effectiveness, Efficiency and Value In the modern corporate environment, General Counsel must build a legal team that is [...]
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 [...]
