Women led 33% of Fortune 500 legal departments in 2019, up from 28% a year earlier, according to legal headhunting firm BarkerGilmore.
Fifty-six lawyers were appointed to a new enterprise general counsel or chief legal officer role within the Fortune 500 last year, John Gilmore, a co-founder and managing partner of BarkerGilmore, said in a blog post Wednesday. Roughly 10% of the law department’s in the Fortune 500 experience a leadership change each year.
BarkerGilmore, a Fairport, N.Y.-based boutique executive search firm, uncovered several other indicators of what a successful applicant looks like in pursuing the path toward a legal ...
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