Fortune 500 companies placed a greater focus on succession planning in 2019 for general counsel and are likely to continue that trend into 2020, according to research from the in-house search firm BarkerGilmore.

John Gilmore, co-founder and managing partner at BarkerGilmore based in Rochester, New York, spoke to Corporate Counsel on Thursday about the firm’s findings in Fortune 500 companies and what general counsel hopefuls should be doing to get hired.