Experienced Family Law Attorney (Remote, Connecticut)

Freed Marcroft Divorce and Family Law; Connecticut; Remote; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Vision coverage

Disability coverage

401(k) match

Paid time off (PTO)

Parental leave

Job summary

Freed Marcroft is a remote-first Connecticut family law boutique with offices across the state. We’re hiring an attorney with 5-8 years of marital and family law experience.

You’ll focus on strategy, building your cases, and serving clients, with robust support, collaboration, and opportunities to grow as an advocate and counselor-at-law. The firm emphasizes a collegial culture and professional growth.

Qualifications

• Five to eight years of family law experience including real courtroom time and managing your own matters from start to finish.

Responsibilities

• Manage and strategize cases from filing to resolution.
• Counsel clients and coordinate with paralegals and colleagues.
• Appear in court and conduct hearings as needed.

Skills

Family law experience

Courtroom experience

Job description

Freed Marcroft is a remote-first Connecticut family law boutique with offices across the state, including Hartford, Middletown, and Westport. We’re hiring an attorney with 5-8 years of marital and family law experience.

You’ve spent years in the courtroom and with clients, and you know how you want to practice. You’re ready for a firm that lets you do it at your best: more support, more colleagues to sharpen your thinking, and more room to grow as an advocate and counselor-at-law. You’d rather spend your days on strategy, building your cases, and serving your clients than on administration or getting new clients in the door.

We’re serious lawyers and professional legal staff who also genuinely like each other, and firm-wide turnover is under 5% a year.

What’s different here

• We have plenty of work, and we deliver the clients to you. There’s no rainmaking requirement (origination is credited when it happens), and practicing attorneys don’t do consultations.


• Remote-first: work from home, or from an office if you prefer. Most client meetings are on Zoom. You’ll be in court, and occasionally meet in person when it makes sense, such as when others are involved or for signings.


• Our paralegals are the air traffic controllers, running point on client communication, and the team covers you when you’re out.


• You set the strategy on your cases, sharpening it with colleagues through regular roundtabling and a weekly lawyers’ meeting where the firm’s brain trust works through the matters the lawyers choose to discuss.

Pay and benefits

• Compensation: $120,000-$170,000. Where you land depends on your experience and what you collect, and collecting more can take you to the top of the range. The ranges themselves rise as you advance.


• A guaranteed base: once you’re up and running, meet our 1,400 collected-hour annual expectation and your salary never drops below the base for your level. Above that, it’s reviewed each quarter and moves with the previous quarter’s collected hours.


• Getting started: your first quarter is for onboarding, training, and ramping up your practice, with no collected-hour target. You’re first eligible for an increase at the end of your second quarter.


• Discretionary bonuses recognize exceptional work, such as training new attorneys or notable trials.


• The firm pays 100% of the employee’s premium for health, vision, and disability coverage.


• The firm contributes 3% of your pay to your 401(k), whether or not you contribute yourself.


• Estimated 27 paid days off: typically 15 firm holidays, including a firm-wide closure the week between Christmas and New Year’s, plus 12 PTO days. Parental leave is also offered.

What we’re looking for

• Five to eight years of family law experience, including real courtroom time and managing your own matters from start to finish

Room to grow

Compensation, title, and responsibility grow with your experience and skills. As you take on more complex matters, lead larger cases, mentor newer attorneys, or move into a senior role, your pay and role grow with you.

About the firm

Freed Marcroft is one of Connecticut’s most recognized family law firms: Inc. 5000, Law Firm 500, and repeatedly voted Best Law Firm or Best Family Law Firm by the readers of the Hartford Courant. Our attorneys are recognized by Best Lawyers in America, Super Lawyers, and the Lawdragon 500, and attorneys at our firm co-authored and edited A Practical Guide to Divorce in Connecticut (MCLE, 2nd Ed. 2026).