Senior Immigration Law Team Lead

New-Frontier-Immigration-Law-; Glendale (AZ); On-site; USD 165,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

New Frontier Immigration Law in Phoenix, AZ is seeking a Managing Attorney to lead immigration practice areas, supervise 10+ attorneys, and enforce firm-wide quality and ethics standards. You will drive strategic change, manage risk, and coordinate with leadership to elevate client service across removal defense and humanitarian matters.

The role reports to the Head of Operations, with direct escalation access to the Founder/CEO for ethics matters.

Qualifications

• Active U.S. law license in good standing.
• Significant immigration law experience across Removal Defense, Humanitarian, Family-based, Employment-based, and/or Consular matters.
• Demonstrated experience supervising attorneys in a law firm environment and implementing strategic change.
• Direct experience handling bar complaints or professional responsibility compliance.
• Experience operating within high-volume legal settings.
• Process-oriented, systems-minded, and decisive; comfortable integrating with operations without compromising ethics.
• Six Sigma or other operations certifications a plus.

Responsibilities

• Supervise 10+ attorneys across multiple immigration practice areas.
• Establish and enforce firm-wide legal quality standards, templates, argument structures, and review protocols.
• Define supervision requirements and escalation thresholds, and intervene when case strategy requires correction.
• Conduct structured legal performance and quality reviews.
• Design preventive supervision systems that reduce exposure before issues arise.
• Audit case documentation for compliance and defensibility.
• Establish documentation standards and red-flag triggers for elevated review.
• Track and analyze RFE trends across case types to identify systemic drafting or evidentiary weaknesses.
• Develop preemptive strategy updates and practice playbooks based on pattern data.
• Lead structured legal review sessions and partner with Legal Operations to implement improvements.
• Conduct high-level conversations with concerned or dissatisfied clients when legal authority is required.

Skills

Immigration law experience

Supervising attorneys

Ethics & compliance

Process-oriented

High-volume practice

Bar complaints handling

Strategic change implementation

Job description

New Frontier Immigration Law in Phoenix, AZ is seeking a Managing Attorney to lead immigration practice areas, supervise 10+ attorneys, and enforce firm-wide quality and ethics standards. You will drive strategic change, manage risk, and coordinate with leadership to elevate client service across removal defense and humanitarian matters.

The role reports to the Head of Operations, with direct escalation access to the Founder/CEO for ethics matters.