Managing Attorney – Immigration Law
New Frontier Immigration Law
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Texas • United States
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Salary
💰 $165,000 per year
About the role
- 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.
- Conduct structured legal performance and quality reviews.
- 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.
- Track and analyze RFE trends across case types.
- Identify systemic drafting or evidentiary weaknesses.
- Develop preemptive strategy updates and playbooks.
- Conduct high-level conversations with concerned or dissatisfied clients.
Requirements
- 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
Benefits
- Performance Bonus: Up to $15,000 annually
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
immigration lawRemoval DefenseHumanitarian lawFamily-based lawEmployment-based lawConsular matterslegal performance reviewscase documentation auditingRFE trend analysisstrategic change implementation
Soft Skills
supervisiondecisivenessprocess-orientedsystems-mindedclient communicationleadershipquality standards enforcementproblem-solvingstrategic planningethical integration
Certifications
active U.S. law licenseSix Sigma