Excellence Meets Experience in Executive Search

Identifying and attracting the best talent requires industry expertise, impeccable judgement, and commitment to leaving no stone unturned. That’s who we are and what we do.

The Work

We expect the unexpected. Each search is crafted alongside our clients to deliver exactly what you need.

The Way

Our values guide us; we don’t have clients or candidates, we have partners. We aren’t satisfied until you are.

The Difference

The difference is the people, we put you first and we also make sure we have fun along the way.

Who We Are

We make a point of being the best, meet our team

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What We Do

We work in a variety of fields to meet all your needs

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How We Do It

Our services are designed to be flexible enough to meet your needs

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News

Our executive search blog contains valuable information, including: executive placement tips, corporate events, compliance news, and much more.

Jason Wachtel Discusses What’s Next For Former FBI Director James Comey with The New York Times

In the recent NYTimes article titled What’s Next for Comey? Probably Not ‘a Normal Job’, by Matthew Goldstein and Alexandria Stevenson, Jason discussed what’s next for form...

@ 3 months ago by JW Michaels

Financial Services Market Data Report 2018

The JW Michaels & Co Financial Services Market Data Report 2018 is now available. The data appearing in this compensation report was collected by comparing invoiced placements ...

@ 3 months ago by JW Michaels

JW Michaels Joins RCA for 3rd Annual PracticeEdge Webcast

WEBCAST: Compensation Trends for Compliance, Legal, Risk, and Accounting DATE: March 5, 2019 TIME: 12:00 PM ET REGISTER >> Senior Fellow from Practice: Jason Wachtel, Managi...

@ 2 months ago by JW Michaels

If You Build It, Law Will Come: Silicon Beach + The Rise of the “Silicon”-somethings

There’s a new and growing region in the tech sector poised to spawn a second California-based legal services ecosystem. For those firms with a national reach that may have missed...

@ 2 weeks ago by Richard Zakin

JW Michaels Congratulates Richard Zakin, who leads our partner placement group, on his key role in this 15+ person hire by Vinson & Elkins

In one of the largest lateral group departures from Kasowitz Benson Torres, 15 real estate transactional lawyers are leaving the litigation firm to join Vinson & Elkins, a major ex...

@ 1 month ago by JW Michaels

The Rise of Privacy as a Job Skill

Privacy pros and guest authors Rita Heimes and J. Trevor Hughes truly understand how information privacy practices can promote trust, and the fiduciary duty that enterprises coll...

@ 2 months ago by H. Lawrence Brown

JW Michaels & Co. is an executive search firm dedicated to serving the specialized recruiting needs of top-tier financial services, legal, technology and business institutions.

Crain’s NY Business consistently ranks JW Michaels in the top 10 Executive Recruiting Firms – with good reason. We get results.

Locations

JW Michaels is headquartered in New York City, with teams based in Atlanta, Chicago, Denver, Greenville, and Houston.

For general inquiries please contact Jillian McElroy 646-624-2305