Latitude Partner, Client Services (Non-Practicing Attorney) - Charlotte

Overview

This role is for an entrepreneurial attorney to join as a partner-owner and help build a client-facing business without practicing law. The organization seeks highly entrepreneurial attorneys who want to take full ownership of client relationships and engagement outcomes.

Partners co-own an operating company with its own P&L and build a team over time. Client work spans essentially every practice area and market, and clients can be anywhere.

Responsibilities

• Launch and lead an operating company, and over time build your own book of business and team.
• Develop and deepen client relationships in your home market and across the country as a trusted, expert presence.
• Serve as the client’s proxy to understand each need and select precisely the right attorneys for each engagement.
• Own every engagement end to end, ensuring high satisfaction for both clients and talent.
• Collaborate with colleagues nationwide to match client needs with the right legal professionals.

Requirements

• Experience as a successful senior attorney—partner, counsel, or senior in-house lawyer—with a strong reputation among legal decision-makers.
• Strong interest in the client-relationship and business-building side of professional life, including the initiative to generate your own opportunities.
• Exceptional responsiveness, discretion, judgment, and attention to detail.
• Ability to operate with calm urgency and strong follow-through, including outside standard hours when it matters.
• Full-time professional focus; practicing law on the side or managing other work commitments is incompatible with this opportunity.

Preferred Qualifications

• A strong network of legal decision-makers.
• Demonstrated ability to attract and retain clients through visibility (e.g., speaking, writing, and community presence).

Compensation & Benefits

• First-year base salary: $175K to $225K depending on equity structure, designed as a bridge to profit distributions and long-term equity (base scales down over time as distributions grow).
• Total compensation range: approximately $175K to $1M+ annually, including base salary, performance bonuses and incentives, profit distributions, and equity tied to performance.
• Equity/ownership: ownership opportunity in your operating company.
• Benefits: comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life, LTD, and 401(k).
• Time off: as an owner, Partners manage their own schedules and time off—there is no fixed PTO allotment. Paid sick leave is provided in accordance with applicable state and local law.

Location & Travel

• Work can be largely from a home office.
• Frequent local travel to meet clients and prospective clients (offices, professional events, and occasional informal meetings).
• Occasional national travel for conferences and partner meetings.

Application Information

Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis. If invited, you may be asked to complete a brief exercise to help you hit the ground running.

Equal Opportunity Employer

This employer is an Equal Opportunity Employer.