Latitude Partner, Client Services (Non-Practicing) - NYC (Metro Area)

Overview

This role is for highly entrepreneurial attorneys interested in building and leading a client-services business on the client side of legal practice. Partners co-own and operate a business unit with its own P&L, responsible for creating relationships, selecting the right attorneys for each engagement, and ensuring successful outcomes for both clients and talent.

The role requires full-time professional focus and is incompatible with practicing law on the side or managing other work commitments.

Responsibilities

• Launch and lead an operating company, building 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 by understanding each client need and selecting the right attorneys for each engagement (business leadership role; not legal practice).
• Own each engagement end to end, ensuring high satisfaction for both client and talent.
• Take initiative to generate opportunities and convert them into lasting relationships.
• Maintain responsiveness, discretion, judgment, and attention to detail in all engagements, including outside standard hours when it matters.

Requirements

• Experience as a successful senior attorney (e.g., partner, counsel, or senior in-house lawyer) with a strong reputation among legal decision-makers.
• Strong interest in the client-relationship and business-building aspects of professional life, including generating your own opportunities.
• Exceptional responsiveness, discretion, judgment, and attention to detail.
• Ability to lead and take extreme ownership of engagements from start to finish.

Preferred Qualifications

• Established network of legal decision-makers.
• Demonstrated ability to build trusted relationships and deliver consistently.

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 opportunity in the operating company.
• Benefits: comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life, LTD, and 401(k).
• Time off: no fixed PTO allotment; Partners manage their own schedules and time off as owners of their business.
• Paid sick leave: provided in accordance with applicable state and local law.

Flexibility & Travel

• Work largely from a home office if desired.
• Frequent local travel to meet clients and prospective clients (e.g., offices and professional events).
• Occasional national travel for conferences and partner meetings.

Location

National role with a home market anchor; clients can be anywhere across the country.