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

Overview

This role is for highly entrepreneurial attorneys to join as partner-owners in a client-service, business leadership capacity. Partner-owners co-own a business unit with its own P&L and take end-to-end responsibility for client engagements—without practicing law.

Partner-owners build and deepen client relationships, serve as the trusted proxy in selecting the right attorneys for each engagement, and ensure satisfaction for both clients and talent.

Responsibilities

• Launch and lead an operating company within the organization, and over time build your own book of business and team.
• 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 the right attorneys for each engagement (business leadership role; not a legal practice).
• Own every engagement end to end, ensuring both client and talent are highly satisfied.
• Maintain strong responsiveness, discretion, judgment, and attention to detail across client interactions.

Requirements

• Experience as a successful senior attorney (partner, counsel, or senior in-house lawyer) with a strong reputation among legal decision-makers.
• Genuine interest in the client-relationship and business-building side of professional work, including the initiative to generate your own opportunities.
• Exceptional responsiveness, discretion, judgment, and attention to detail.
• Desire to build something that is truly yours and grow it over time.
• Full-time professional focus is required; practicing law on the side or managing other work commitments is incompatible with this opportunity.

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: as owners of their business, 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 & Flexibility

• Work flexibility: largely from a home office if you choose.
• Travel: frequent local travel to meet clients and prospective clients (offices, professional events, and occasional professional outings).
• Occasional national travel for conferences and partner meetings.

Additional Information

• Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.
• Confidentiality is required throughout the application process.

Equal Opportunity Employer

The employer is an Equal Opportunity Employer.