Lead Removal Defense Attorney

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

📋 Description

• Take ownership of legal outcomes and ensure quality control for a designated region within the Removal Defense Department.

• Manage a reduced, region-specific caseload to allow for legal leadership, quality control, and escalation support.

• Offer daily case-strategy guidance and legal direction to assigned Associate Attorneys.

• Act as the regional escalation point for intricate legal issues, changes in case strategy, and heightened professional-responsibility risks.

• Assess case files and filings prepared by Associate Attorneys to ensure compliance with firm standards and professional-responsibility criteria.

• Provide functional legal oversight and guidance to assigned attorneys, paralegals, and legal assistants.

• Collaborate with regional Paralegals and the Lead Paralegal on workload distribution, staffing requirements, and workflow challenges.

• Raise operational gaps to the VP for Strategic Initiatives and legal-strategy inquiries to the Director of Legal Strategy.

• Keep track of case aging, deadlines, and caseload equilibrium throughout the region.

• Assist with onboarding, mentorship, and firm-wide training programs.

• Represent the region in routine leadership meetings.

• Maintain effective communication and cooperation across the regional case team.

• Execute other legal leadership and case-related responsibilities as assigned.

⛳️ Requirements

• Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from an accredited law school.

• Active bar license in good standing within a jurisdiction pertinent to the assigned region.

• Significant experience in removal defense and immigration court practice, including direct EOIR litigation experience.

• Proficient understanding of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), the categorical approach to inadmissibility and deportability, and associated removal-defense doctrine.

• Proven capability to manage an active caseload while reviewing and guiding the work of other attorneys.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to deliver direct, constructive case-strategy feedback and legal advice.

• Strong professional judgment and the capacity to identify, evaluate, and appropriately escalate complex or high-risk legal matters.

• Ability to work effectively within a distributed leadership framework and collaborate across attorney, paralegal, legal assistant, and operational teams.

• Prior experience in a leadership, supervisory, or managing attorney role is preferred.

• Experience working within a distributed, multi-time-zone team is preferred.

• Familiarity with SIJS, VAWA, T-visa, U-visa, or other humanitarian relief pathways as they relate to removal defense is preferred.

🏝️ Benefits

• Acknowledged as a Great Place To Work.

• Honored by Inc. 5000 as the Fastest-Growing Law Firm in the U.S.