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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 [...]
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 [...]
