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Hiring General Counsel: Why You Need a Compliance-Minded GC
Financial regulation, new employee laws and cybersecurity all weigh heavily on the minds of today’s General Counsel. In fact, 98 percent of company directors said [...]
Hiring General Counsel: 4 Ways to Close the Deal
Today’s General Counsel is much more involved in shaping the direction of most companies, and the role continues to evolve. More than 71 percent of [...]
What Drives CCO Retention?
Nearly every day, a new article or horror story about compliance makes the business news. As companies ramp up to meet new regulatory requirements and [...]
BarkerGilmore Announces Increase in Diversity Placements
BarkerGilmore, a New York-based executive search firm specializing in board member, general counsel and senior compliance officer assignments, celebrated industry-leading diversity placement rates in 2013. Last year, 47% of [...]
Recruiting General Counsel As A Crucial Legal and Business Partner
In a recent article “Seven Steps to GC Succession Success,” we explored how the concept and practice of succession planning have been expanding at many [...]
Compliance Recruitment: A New Breed of CCO for a New Era
What Companies Need Now More than a decade of regulations, from the Patriot Act to Sarbanes-Oxley to Dodd-Frank, have helped to position the Chief Compliance [...]
7 Steps to GC Succession Success
In a more intense regulatory environment, the GC role has taken center stage. While succession planning has become de rigueur for CEOs, increasingly, leading companies [...]
Recruiting and Retaining the Best Diversity GC Candidates
We see a growing awareness of the value of recruiting diversity to organizations… adding or at least systematically considering both women and minorities… and it [...]