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New Frontier Immigration Law

We help immigrants live a life of Freedom in the US.

Legal Director

General CounselGeneral CounselFull TimeRemoteLeadTeam 11-50H1B No SponsorCompany SiteLinkedIn

Location

Arizona

Posted

22 days ago

Salary

$165K / year

Seniority

Lead

Professional Certificate3 yrs expEnglish

Job Description

• 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

Job 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

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