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J.S. Held Acquires Clark Seif Clark, Strengthening West Coast Capabilities for Environmental Claims, Disputes, and Catastrophe Response
Read MorePublished: December 2024
Over the years, our network, client base, and team have grown through a combination of strategic acquisitions and direct hiring. We have attracted top talent by focusing on our employer brand, creating positive work experiences for our people, and cultivating a work culture that is reflective of our core values. Additionally, competitive pay and benefits have played a key role in attracting the best talent.
Similarly, our Talent team has grown through strategic hires and acquisitions, becoming more specialized, geographically dispersed, and well-versed in the markets we serve. This evolution has been vital as we introduce more sophisticated people processes and serve as strategic partners to our leaders to help grow the business and meet the needs of our clients.
Our people vision is to activate the expert in every employee. We are committed to their career growth, having invested in LEDR™, our award-winning, proprietary leadership development program, and J.S. Held Academy, an online learning platform, among other initiatives. Providing leadership development, quality internships, mentoring, continual learning, and career advancement opportunities are key pillars of our talent strategy.
What makes J.S. Held stand out is the diversity of our people. We leverage our different backgrounds, experiences, and skill sets to deliver unique value to our clients across a wide range of matters and geographies. Through our leaders and supported by our employee resource groups, we’ve built strong communities to ensure team members feel welcomed, respected, and appreciated.
We continue to enhance our capabilities and evolve our infrastructure to support our growth. We invested in our core human resources system; new talent acquisition, compensation planning, and benefits technologies; and comprehensive employee learning solutions through J.S. Held Academy - all to support our business, create better efficiencies, and bolster our team members’ professional development.
Delivering quality to clients and the markets we serve requires the best professionals. Our human resources team and business partners improve how we acquire, train, mentor, inform, support, engage, and reward our global team. With top talent acquisition and development programs, new technologies, effective processes, strong employee services, a collaborative culture, and a steadfast commitment to diversity and inclusion, we ensure J.S. Held remains an industry leader.
Throughout this series, leaders from across the firm have talked about different programs and initiatives, geographic expansion, and service development along our journey from 1974 to today. At the heart of it all is our people. While much has changed over time, our people always have been and always will be our greatest asset.
View more stories about our journey from foundation to future and the entrepreneurial experts who continue to shape the trajectory of J.S. Held.
J.S. Held President & CEO Jon Held shares the history of the firm, reflects on key strengths that have contributed to its success, and discusses what the future holds for the company....
Scott Katcher, Chief Legal Officer for J.S. Held, discusses how shifts in the industries and geographies we serve have impacted the business, and how one of the organization’s most valuable assets—our people—will be the key...
David Held, Chief Strategy Officer at J.S. Held, discusses the growth of our firm and how expansions and new directions in business have shaped unique strategic approaches for establishing and broadening our position in the...