Overview
This role involves helping lead a legal services operating company and building client relationships on the client side of practice. The position is designed for highly entrepreneurial senior attorneys who want to shift from practicing law to serving as a trusted proxy for clients and ensuring engagements are staffed with the right attorneys.
Responsibilities
- Launch and lead an operating company, then build your own book of business and team over time.
- Develop and deepen client relationships in your home market and across the country.
- Serve as the client’s proxy in understanding each need and selecting precisely the right attorneys for each engagement.
- Take end-to-end ownership of engagements to ensure satisfaction for both clients and talent.
- Collaborate with colleagues nationwide to match client needs with the right attorneys.
Requirements
- Experience as a successful senior attorney—partner, counsel, or senior in-house lawyer—with a strong reputation among legal decision-makers.
- Strong appetite for 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 provide calm urgency and precise execution, including when issues arise outside standard hours.
- Commitment to full-time professional focus; practicing law on the side or managing other work commitments is incompatible with this opportunity.
Preferred Qualifications
- A demonstrated network of legal decision-makers.
- Experience delivering high-trust client service and maintaining confidentiality.
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 (base salary, performance bonuses and incentives, profit distributions, and equity tied to performance).
- Equity: ownership opportunity in your operating company.
- Benefits: comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life, LTD, and 401(k).
- Time off: 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.
Flexibility & Travel
- Work largely from a home office if you choose.
- Frequent local travel to meet clients and prospective clients (offices, professional events, and occasional informal meetings).
- Occasional national travel for conferences and partner meetings.
Equal Opportunity
The employer is an Equal Opportunity Employer and will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records as required by applicable laws.