We hope that you and your families are well and as safe as possible. We realize that you may be overwhelmed with information – and it will continue as laws, regulations, external and internal policies evolve at the organization, state, and national level. The … [more]
CLO & GC Blog
Should COVID19 Change Your In-House Hiring?
As general counsel of your organization during this pandemic, you are likely overwhelmed with myriad issues. Most likely, you are fielding questions and making decisions ranging from how to create and communicate a coronavirus health and safety policy for company … [more]
Executive Compensation Trends: A Method to the Metrics?
[Statistics in this article can be found here.] It has been a hot topic in the news for the last two years, and it has been the subject of several high-profile corporate lawsuits, executive compensation. The metrics that companies use … [more]
Does Emotional Intelligence Factor into Your Legal Recruiting and Career Development Model?
Emotional intelligence – it is the kind of soft skill that has great power in all human interactions, but it gets relatively short-shrift in the legal and business world. Just take a look at the resumes your legal department receives … [more]
Where Are Your Legal Gaps? Strategies for Mapping Your Legal Team Today and for the Future
It has been a bumpy ride for corporations, and the economy in general, over the last few years. Indeed, managing a legal department in any company, big or small, is not for the faint of heart. Not only is the … [more]
To Tech or Not to Tech: A Business Decision-Making Model
We all know that “throwing money at a problem” is not the way to fix it. Back in the day, government and corporate leaders alike believed that directing more financial resources towards a thorny issue would, somehow, magically fix the … [more]
“Develop the Range of a CEO”
According to Harvard Law School’s Center on the Legal Profession, adept in-house lawyering requires a range of complementary competencies, and it has been Princeton Legal Search Group’s experience that these competencies or skill sets can be the tie breaker when … [more]
Should Your Next Strategic Hire be A Legal Ops Professional?
In the 2019 State of Corporate Law Departments Improving the Impact of Legal Services, innovation was a key theme and sets the stage for the context of continual change- in the ever changing world of work. “Innovation incorporates a whole host of … [more]
Growing Your Team – A Streamlined Approach (It can happen faster than you think)
We were recently engaged by a public company to lead a national search for its next General Counsel. We launched the search in October and had an offer and acceptance before New Years. Extraordinary and beyond what you can expect … [more]
Reflections and Perspectives on the role of General Counsel
There have been a number of topics discussed, reviewed or written about over the course of 2018. As the year ends and performance reviews and strategic planning are top of mind, seven areas are noteworthy to consider as part of … [more]
