Founding Partner, Lawyer

Overview

This role is a full-time, remote position based in San Francisco.

The organization is building an AI-native law firm designed to automate practice operations while keeping professional judgement, advocacy, and client relationship work with licensed attorneys.

The firm is already operational in Switzerland using this infrastructure. A California practice is next; the US practice has not yet been established.

Responsibilities

• Own and operate the law firm, including maintaining responsibility for your license, entity, clients, and professional judgement.
• Co-found and help structure an MSO (management services organization) together with a partner, where the MSO builds and runs everything that is not the practice of law.
• Build and oversee components managed by the MSO, including:
  • AI systems the firm runs on
  • Engineering, operations, finance, marketing, administration, and recruiting
• Serve as the co-founder of the MSO under an arm’s-length services agreement, with the MSO taking a services fee.

Requirements

• Admitted in California and in good standing.
• Senior enough that clients hire you directly.
• Bring a book of business and the ability to convert relationships into engagements (GCs, partners, founders, alumni, and others who take your call).
• Have considered leaving to start your own firm, but did not proceed because you did not want to spend three years building a back office.
• Demonstrate a preference for ownership over a salary line.
• Strong understanding of legal ethics, including:
  • independence of judgement
  • fee-sharing
  • confidentiality
  • unauthorized practice
• Ability to understand how MSO structures operate and where the legal/ethical limits sit.
• Enjoy solving cases and the legal craft.
• Be tech-curious; view AI in law as an important development rather than a threat.
• Be comfortable being early in an environment without brand, precedent bank, or support staff on day one.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building or advising on MSO, ABS, or other alternative legal service structures.
• Prior ownership of a P&L or a practice group.
• Litigation experience alongside advisory work.
• A second language.

Compensation & Benefits

• Founder equity in the MSO.
• Access to the economics of your own firm.

Location

• San Francisco
• Remote