Our Legal Center of Expertise has deep substantive knowledge and extensive experience sourcing talent for senior in-house legal and compliance leadership roles. Our consultants also serve as trusted advisors to Fortune 500 general counsel on a range of talent-related issues, from succession planning to executive coaching.
Here are some of the challenges we can help you address:
Legal teams must serve as business partners to the C-suite, board of directors and leaders of major functions and operations throughout the enterprise. Legal acumen isn’t enough to succeed; corporate in-house attorneys also need a broad business perspective that enables them to understand legal consequences in the context of business outcomes. To ensure you recruit the best legal talent, we:
Lawyers are well-versed in specific areas of law from their education and experience. But what they often lack is leadership and soft skills, which can hinder their ability to find opportunities to grow and make new contributions to their employer. We help organizations:
While the challenge of legal work can be energizing, the stress and demands of that work, combined with the competitiveness of the market, can make it difficult to engage and retain top talent. We help organizations:
Ensuring our clients have access to diverse talent has been a priority at Korn Ferry for years. We both recruit fully diverse slates and help organizations remove obstacles, rooting out biases that hamper the development and elevation of diverse candidates. We help organizations:
Our experts are the best at what they do. We work with your team as an honest and inclusive partner to achieve and exceed your business goals, and we have the knowledge, expertise and experience to help you achieve greatness.
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