EDITOR’S DESK

How much are your colleagues from law school making? Even if you and your closest confidants have an open and honest exchange about your salaries and benefits, it won’t give you the broader picture.

Thankfully Bob Barker, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at BarkerGilmore, has broken down some of the biggest trends in BarkerGilmore’s 2024 In-House Counsel Compensation Report for our cover story.

Encouragingly, the gender pay disparity gap is narrowing amongst general counsel roles. Also notable: fewer legal department employees are job hopping. “Only 9% of in-house counsel changed jobs in 2023, contrasting with the higher turnover rates observed in the previous two years,” he writes. These are just a couple of the key insights to emerge from the research. Read the story to glean all the insights and deftly negotiate your next package.

Whether you are staying put or looking to make a move to a new company, it’s important that you are up to speed on how to respond to whistleblower claims. In an exclusive piece for us, Justin Lugar of Woods Rogers provides key actionable intelligence for you and your team to help you navigate these claims and protect the company.

There are several other great reads in this issue including an analysis of the CrowdStrike outage that paralyzed businesses across the globe, a primer on how to handle infighting on your team, and a look at arbitration clauses in bankruptcy. We also have an exclusive interview with Keith Burke, Vice President of Global Channel Partner Sales and Legal Technology at KLDiscovery.

I’ll leave you with a reminder to check out Today’s Managing Partner, our new platform serving the law firm community. For this issue, Today’s Managing Partner Columnist Tracy LaLonde contributed a thoughtful piece about the business impact of purpose.

“Evidence suggests that a purpose-driven workplace not only enhances employee satisfaction and mental wellbeing but also significantly impacts productivity and the bottom line,” she writes.

That is certainly an idea we can all get behind, whether we are working in-house, at a law firm, or anywhere else.

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Thanks for reading,

Amanda Kaiser, Editor-in-Chief