Legal Director
New Frontier Immigration Law
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Arizona • United States
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Salary
💰 $165,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Serve as the firm's senior authority on legal quality, supervision, and professional responsibility
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Supervise the legal integrity of the intake process to ensure cases are signed with the correct legal strategy, expectations, and risk assessment
- Define intake standards and required case information
- Review and audit escalated intake cases for strategy or information gaps
- Correct patterns that lead to downstream legal or client issues
- Define legal performance standards in partnership with Operations and own enforcement within the legal team
- Set legal performance expectations for attorneys and paralegals
- Conduct performance reviews, manage underperformance, and make promotion, correction, and exit recommendations for legal roles
- Conduct high-level conversations with concerned or dissatisfied clients when legal authority is required
- Provide clear, disciplined explanations of strategy and risk
- Own the legal decision layer of refund eligibility, including reviewing disputed or high-risk cases and ensuring consistency and documentation
- Make principled decisions regarding case posture and resolution in collaboration with leadership
Requirements
- Active U.S. law license in good standing
- At least 3 years of experience managing a law firm or entire legal department
- Significant immigration law experience across Removal Defense, Humanitarian (T Visa, U Visa, VAWA), Family-based, 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
- Preferred: Business immigration exposure
- Spanish/English bilingual strongly preferred
- Experience designing intake quality systems
Benefits
- 3 weeks of PTO and paid holidays
- Healthcare options
- Professional development support
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
immigration lawRemoval DefenseHumanitarian lawT VisaU VisaVAWAFamily-based immigrationEmployment-based immigrationbar complaints handlingintake quality systems
Soft Skills
supervisionstrategic change implementationdecisivenessprocess-orientedsystems-mindedclient communicationperformance managementlegal decision makingrisk assessmentintervention
Certifications
active U.S. law licenseSix Sigma