Managing Attorney – Immigration Law

Managing Attorney – Immigration Law

Remote | Full-Time | Immigration Law

About New Frontier Immigration Law

New Frontier Immigration Law represents individuals and families navigating some of the most consequential legal moments of their lives. We currently file approximately 600 cases per month across Removal Defense, Humanitarian relief (T Visa, U Visa, VAWA), Family-based matters, Employment-based, and Consular processing, supported by a legal team of 10+ attorneys and 50+ support staff.

With our volume comes great responsibility. Legal excellence must be consistent. Supervision must be real. Risk must be proactively managed so our clients are protected.

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.