Director of Legal Quality

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Develop and enhance Berry Law's legal quality management system for VA appeals.

• Identify systemic quality issues and report defects.

• Perform independent quality assessments of randomly selected appeals.

• Review all appeals submitted by new attorneys during the first 15 days post-training.

• Ensure adherence to Berry Law's Quality Standards and prevent critical defects prior to filing.

• Analyze defects to ascertain root causes.

• Relay defects to the VA Commander for necessary corrective actions.

• Facilitate quarterly workshops on legal writing, appellate advocacy training, and calibration exercises.

• Maintain QC Standards, QC Scorecards, Defect Database, Writing Guides, Approved Authority Library, Template Library, and a future AI Prompt Library.

• Review precedential cases and update quality resources as needed.

• Ensure that legal writing is concise, accurate, persuasive, professional, easy to read, and strategically organized.

• Assign root causes, corrective actions, ownership, and deadlines for significant defects, reporting them to the VA Commander and the assigned Platoon Leader.

• Maintain dashboards that track defect rates, recurring defects, attorney trends, department trends, and quality improvement over time.

• Conduct weekly audits of appeals and appeal forms.

• Perform monthly audits of templates, AI outputs, and SOP compliance.

• Require a review by the Platoon Leader before filing when necessary.

• Place attorneys under enhanced QC review.

• Update templates and checklists after consulting with the VA Commander.

• Suggest training modifications and escalate recurring quality issues to the CEO.

• Recommend the termination of attorneys and case managers directly to the VA Commander.

⛳️ Requirements

• Must be a licensed attorney.

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in appellate or litigation.

• Outstanding legal writing skills.

• Extensive experience in VA appellate cases.

• Strong analytical abilities.

• Excellent decision-making skills.

• Previous experience as an appellate clerk is preferred.

• Prior role as a law review editor is preferred.

• Experience as a legal writing professor is preferred.

• Familiarity with implementing quality management systems is preferred.

🏝️ Benefits

• Berry Law has received national recognition for its exceptional workplace culture and rapid growth.

• Equal opportunity employer.