Description:

We are hiring a Managing Attorney to serve as the firm's central authority on legal quality, professional responsibility, and attorney supervision.

Why This Role Exists
This role exists to:

Protect the firm and our clients from ethical, legal error, and professional risk
Standardize legal strategy and filing quality across 600+ monthly matters
Reduce avoidable RFEs through structured pattern analysis
Supervise attorneys with clarity and authority
Serve as the senior escalation point for complex legal matters
Implement initiatives across the legal team

Legal standards cannot depend on individual style. They must be systematized and defensible.

Core Responsibilities:
Legal Supervision & Authority

Supervise 10+ attorneys across multiple immigration practice areas.
Establish and enforce firm-wide legal quality standards.
Standardize templates, argument structures, and review protocols.
Define supervision requirements and escalation thresholds.
Intervene when case strategy requires correction.
Conduct structured legal performance and quality reviews.
This role requires decisiveness and comfort exercising authority.

Ethics & Risk Governance

Serve as lead authority on bar complaints and professional responsibility matters.
Design preventive supervision systems that reduce exposure.
Audit case documentation for compliance and defensibility.
Create documentation standards that withstand scrutiny.
Establish red-flag triggers for elevated review.

This role protects the license and the integrity of the practice.

RFE Pattern Analysis & Proactive Strategy
At our filing volume, reactive lawyering is insufficient.

You Will:

Track and analyze RFE trends across case types.
Identify systemic drafting or evidentiary weaknesses.
Develop preemptive strategy updates and playbooks.
Lead structured legal review sessions.
Partner with Legal Operations to implement system improvements.

The objective is anticipatory legal leadership — not after-the-fact correction.

Senior Client Escalation

Conduct high-level conversations with concerned or dissatisfied clients when legal authority is required.
Provide clear, disciplined explanations of strategy and risk.
Make principled decisions regarding case posture and resolution in collaboration with leadership.

Calm presence and emotional control are essential.

Reporting Structure

Reports to: Head of Operations
Direct escalation access to: Founder/CEO for matters involving ethics and professional responsibility.

This structure ensures operational alignment while preserving legal integrity.

Compensation:

Base Salary: $165,000
Performance Bonus: Up to $15,000 annually
Total Target Compensation: $180,000

Bonus metrics tied to:

Legal quality audit outcomes
Reduction in recurring RFE patterns
Effective escalation management
Documentation and supervision compliance
Risk mitigation initiatives

Compensation reflects the scope of responsibility and enterprise-level legal risk oversight.

Qualifications:

Active U.S. law license in good standing.
Significant immigration law experience across Removal Defense, Humanitarian, Family-based and Employment-based, and/or Consular matters.
Demonstrated experience supervising attorneys in a law firm environment and implementing strategic change.
Direct experience handling bar complaints or professional responsibility compliance.
Experience operating within high-volume legal settings.
Process-oriented, systems-minded, and decisive.
Comfortable integrating with operations without compromising ethics.
Six Sigma or other operations certifications a plus

Who Thrives in this Role
Attorneys who:

Value disciplined standards over improvisation
See supervision as protection, not interference
Believe consistency is a form of respect for clients
Think in systems, not silos and can implement strategy
Are steady under pressure
Are comfortable making difficult decisions when required

What this Role is Not

Not marketing.
Not intake or sales.
Not workflow management (Legal Ops handles production systems).
Not a ceremonial title.

This is a hands-on legal authority role focused on supervision, risk protection, and disciplined execution at meaningful volume. If everything in this speaks to you, please apply.

Kindly Note: Our company exists to help change 1 million immigrants' lives. If you're not a hell yes on everything in this job ad, please do not apply.