Managing Attorney, Immigration Practice

aiLegal; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonuses

Health/dental/vision insurance

401(k) with employer contribution

Paid time off and professional develop

Job summary

aiLegal, an immigration law firm powered by AI, seeks a Managing Attorney to lead and practice hands-on while directing a team of attorneys and paralegals. The role demands deep subject-matter expertise across business and family immigration, humanitarian relief, and federal litigation, plus supervising hearings, detention relief, and ICE reporting.

You will be accountable for direct case work, team leadership, productivity benchmarks, and timely filings using Jira dashboards.

Qualifications

• J.D. degree from an ABA accredited U.S. law school and an active license in good standing.
• 7+ years of immigration law experience.
• Strong courtroom advocacy and litigation skills.
• Excellent communication, leadership, and mentoring skills.
• Ability to triage and assign cases effectively between case managers and attorneys.
• Familiarity with Jira or equivalent project/case management tools.

Responsibilities

• Serve as lead attorney on complex matters in business, family, humanitarian, removal defense, and federal litigation.
• Manage and update case pipelines using aiLegal’s proprietary AI platform and case management software.
• Monitor deadlines and ensure all filings are timely and compliant with court and USCIS requirements.
• Coordinate and manage attorneys for USCIS interviews, court appearances, and ICE reporting.
• Review and sign filings, providing legal strategy and quality assurance.
• Foster a collaborative, high-performance culture with clear expectations and feedback.
• Collaborate with operations to improve SOPs and streamline workflows.

Education

J.D. degree from an ABA credited U.S. law school, active license in good standing

Tools

Jira

Job description

Location: Atlanta, San Francisco, New York, or Remote

Employment Type: Full-time

Compensation: Competitive base salary + performance bonuses based on team’s credit-hour productivity, quality of work, and great customers interaction.

Reports to: Managing Partner

About Us

aiLegal is an immigration law firm powered by AI technology with a strong reputation for delivering excellence, efficiency, and client-centric service. We handle a wide spectrum of immigration cases including family immigration, humanitarian matters, business immigration, consular processing, removal defense, and federal litigation.

We operate on a flat rate model with assigned credit hours per case type and enforce high accountability in meeting deadlines and productivity benchmarks. Each team member is expected to deliver at least 100 credit hours per month.

Our unique service model ensures speed, standardization, and client satisfaction by structuring every case into a clear assembly-line pipeline.

We are seeking experienced Managing Attorney to join the team.

This role is not for candidates who:

• want a title without hands-on responsibility
• avoid carrying a real caseload while “managing” others
• need direction before taking action
• struggle to enforce deadlines, standards, or accountability
• are not comfortable being measured by team performance and results
• resist KPIs, billing targets, or productivity tracking
• lack the discipline to drive cases to competition and filing for the team
• tolerate bottlenecks instead of removing them
• prefer theory, discussion, or perfection over execution
• bring ego, defensiveness, or interpersonal drama into leadership
• expect others to compensate for missed deliverables

If you are looking for low-pressure leadership role, loose oversight, or a purely advisory position, this role will not be a fit.

This role is for candidates who are:

Lead from the front with a strong personal work ethic

actively manage and carry complex cases themselves

hold themselves and others accountable for productive and high quality deliverables

execute decisively and move work forward every day

enforce deadlines without apology

use data, KPs, and billing metrics to drive performance

remove roadblocks so the legal team can deliver on time

communicate clearly, directly, and professionally

are comfortable making hard calls to protect quality and timelines

bring curiosity, humility, and emotional maturity to leadership

take full ownership of outcomes - good or bad

Position Review

The Managing Attorney will be both a hands-on practitioner and a team leader, responsible for delivering high-quality legal work while ensuring the productivity and efficiency of the legal team. This role requires deep subject-matter expertise across business immigration, family immigration, humanitarian relief (U/T visas, waivers), consular processing, removal defense, and federal litigation, as well as strong courtroom presence, and the ability to supervise a team handling immigration court hearings, detention relief, and ICE reporting.

The Managing Attorney will be held accountable for:

• Direct Case Work: Competently handling complex cases and mentoring team members.
• Team Leadership: Managing 3-4 attorneys and 3-4 paralegals/law clerks to meet case deadlines
• Performance and Productivity: Ensuring each team member meet no less than 100 credit hours per month; managing a total team output of 100 X team numbers credit hours monthly.
• Accountability: Hold team responsible for case progress, billing benchmarks, and timely filing using Jira project management.
• Discipline and efficiency: Manage and lead team in executing our unique service assembly line model

Key Responsibilities

• Case Work & Legal Expertise
• Serve as lead attorney on complex matters in business, family, humanitarian, removal defense, and federal litigation.
• Manage and update case pipelines using aiLegal’s proprietary AI platform and case management software.
• Monitor deadlines and ensure all filings are timely and compliant with court and USCIS requirements.
• Coordinate and manage attorneys for USCIS interviews, court appearances, and ICE reporting.
• Review and sign filings, providing legal strategy and quality assurance.
• Workflow Oversight
• Decide when cases should follow standard workflow, attorney-driven workflow, or non-assembly line workflow.
• Ensure standard cases, attorney-driven cases, and non-assembly line cases, progress seamlessly through assembly line.
• Team Management & Leadership
• Supervise attorneys, paralegals, and law clerks, providing guidance, training, and quality control.
• Conduct weekly and monthly performance check-ins, ensuring staff are meeting billing and filing requirements.
• Enforce accountability by monitoring credit hour production, and case progress through Jira reports and dashboard.
• Foster a collaborative, high-performance culture with clear expectations, and consistent feedback.
• Operations and Productivity
• Collaborate with operations to improve SOPs and streamline workflows.
• Ensure timely filing and adherence to internal SOPs.
• Monitor and report case metric (credit hours, deadlines, client satisfaction) to firm leadership.
• Implement process improvements to increase efficiency and standardization.
• Collaborate with intake, customer service, and operations teams to ensure seamless case management.

Qualifications

• J.D. degree from an ABA credited U.S. law school, active license in good standing
• 7+ years of immigration law experience, spanning business, family, humanitarian, and removal defense
• Strong courtroom advocacy and litigation skills
• Prior experience in supervising attorneys, paralegals, or leading a legal team strongly preferred.
• Ability to triage and assign cases effectively between case managers and attorneys.
• Strong organizational and accountability skills, proven record of meeting deadlines and productivity goals.
• Familiarity with Jira or equivalent project/case management tools.
• Excellent communication, leadership, and mentoring skills.

Job Performance Expectation

• Monthly Output: Minimum 100 X team numbers credit hours of completed work.
• Quality: Zero-tolerance for any preventable errors - wrong personal data, missing pages/signatures, missing/wrong filing fee payments (issuance date, payee name, amount), form editions, filing addresses, missing form page, or wrong orders of forms, missing signatures or dates, missed filing/hearing deadlines, or failure to follow SOP.
• Responsiveness: All internal communications acknowledged and responded within 2 hours and all external communication acknowledged and responded within 24 hours;

Compensation and Benefits

• Competitive base salary + performance-based bonuses
• Health, dental, vision, and life insurance
• 401(k) with employer contribution
• Paid time off, CLE/professional development budget, and bar dues
• Career growth opportunity in a fast-scaling, and technology driven practice.

Why Join aiLegal

• Be part of a visionary firm revolutionizing immigration law through AI and automation.
• Collaborate with a high-performing, mission-driven team.
• Enjoy a culture of transparency, innovation, and recognition.
• Gain opportunities for career growth and leadership advancement.
• Competitive pay structure with performance incentives and bonuses.