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How to Find and Attract the Right GC Candidate – Part 1 of 2
If you’re a regular reader of our blog, you know the importance we place on well-executed succession planning (A Roadmap for Effective GC Succession Planning). [...]
A Roadmap for Effective GC Succession Planning
Within Fortune 500 companies, it’s unlikely you would find even one that didn’t have a formal CEO succession plan in place. Because it’s difficult to [...]
General Counsel: Adding Value to the C-Suite
Survey: How General Counsel Are Adding Value To the C-Suite General Counsel are adding greater value by advising the CEO and board in all forms of corporate governance, from shareholder [...]
General Counsel Succession Planning Practices From the Pros
Identify and Develop GC Successors with These Key Insights Former MasterCard GC Noah Hanft and former Covance GC James Lovett share their insights on the matter in “General Counsel Succession Planning [...]
Charting Your Career Path to GC
As a seasoned legal recruiter with over 20 years of experience, I’ve learned that a lot of very smart attorneys make the same not-so-smart mistake: [...]
Top Five Tips for Assessing In-House Counsel
As a recruiter, I’ve developed a rather messy Pavlovian response when a resume lands on my desk featuring an Ivy League law school and a [...]
What Color is Your In-House Parachute?
Chances are when you began your law firm career, you dreamed about making partner. Next would be managing partner. And then, the icing on the [...]
Survey Says: 5 Areas Where General Counsel Will Have the Most Impact in 2020
If your General Counsel doesn’t have a seat at the table, you probably need to think about getting a bigger table. BarkerGilmore partnered with NYSE [...]
How to Build a World Class Legal Department
Uncertain global markets … cybersecurity … tightening credit sources … increasing regulatory demands … antitrust. Obstacles to business success have never loomed larger. And corporate legal departments have never [...]
Survey Says: Legal Competence Not What Matters Most in a General Counsel
If It’s Not Legal Skill, What Exactly Are Corporations Looking for in Their General Counsel? New research from NYSE Governance Services and BarkerGilmore offers a [...]
Can Your Salary Strategy Compete in the High-Stakes Arena of General Counsel Hiring?
Reputation will take you only so far. To get the best General Counsel, you need to offer an extraordinary package including compensation, equity, long-term incentives, [...]
Maximize the Impact of Your Compliance Department
Good compliance practices are good business practices. But poor compliance practices can have tragic consequences that go way beyond the bottom line. Failure to consider [...]
