Legal Recruiting & Attorney Placement Firm

Employee Stock Ownership Plan  ESOP

Mestel & Company is proud to be a 100% employee owned company through the HCMC Legal, Inc. Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP). The ESOP strengthens our ability to continue providing the best in class recruitment and attorney placement services in the industry. It ensures our commitment to our core values of teamwork, integrity and professionalism —values we have lived by since we were established in 1987.   In the permanent attorney placement industry, this is to the best of our knowledge, the first employee owned company.  The ESOP is a retirement plan that holds HCMC Legal, Inc. stock on behalf of the employees.

Mestel & Company’s greatest strength lies in its people— their experience, their expertise and their deep knowledge of the legal marketplace.  But the best legal recruitment firms know it’s all about relationships: It’s Who You Know®.  However, it’s the fact that we operate as one unified company, sharing one data base and collectively providing professional and discreet service to our candidates and clients alike that is unparalleled in our field. The ESOP will be a tremendous opportunity for our recruiters, providing them with a significant equity stake in our company, improving our retention of all our talented and successful existing employees and recruitment of new ones. 

While employee ownership is an exciting new opportunity for us, we will maintain our management personnel, systems and recruitment practices that have earned us our solid reputation. Lynn Mestel President, Avery Ellis COO, Sam Roberts Executive Director and our key managers and employees are committed to lead and run the company. The ESOP further affirms our commitment to be the best in the industry. Employee ownership not only improves our ability to fulfill that commitment, but also ensures a sustainable strategy to maintain it for many years to come. We are proud of the thousands of successful legal careers we have launched and enhanced and look forward to continuing this important work into the future. 

For more information about the broader community of ESOPs and employee-owned companies, please visit the websites of the ESOP Association and the National Center for Employee Ownership.