Supervising Partner - Family Law

OConnor Family Law; Westborough (MA); On-site; USD 155,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

OConnor Family Law in Westborough, Massachusetts is looking for a Supervising Partner to mentor, supervise, and manage a team of family law attorneys. The successful candidate will have a Juris Doctor degree, over 5 years of family law litigation experience, and strong leadership and organizational skills. Compensation ranges from $155,000 to $300,000 annually, including performance-based incentives. This role focuses on improving attorney competency and operational efficiency within the firm.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5+ years of family law litigation experience, including trial experience.
• Extensive experience managing complex family law cases independently.
• Ability to manage multiple attorneys and priorities simultaneously.

Responsibilities

• Serve as primary escalation point for associate attorney legal strategy questions.
• Ensure legal consistency across the team and improve workflow efficiency.
• Maintain a reduced but meaningful caseload involving complex litigation matters.
• Help strengthen firm culture and support accountability systems.

Skills

Strong courtroom and negotiation skills

Strong legal judgment

Exceptional communication skills

Strong emotional intelligence

Strong organizational and accountability skills

Education

Juris Doctor (JD) degree

Job description

O’Connor Family Law (OCFL) is seeking 1–2 highly skilled, emotionally intelligent, and operationally disciplined family law attorneys to serve as a Supervising Partner within our growing family law firm with offices in Westborough and Hanover, Massachusetts. This role is designed for attorneys who are strong legal strategists, natural mentors, calm under pressure, highly accountable, and capable of helping to build and scale a premium family law division.

Our firm focuses on divorce, custody, and family transformation.

Responsibilities

• Attorney Supervision & Development (Serve as the primary escalation point for associate attorney legal strategy questions, coach and mentor developing attorneys, conduct file strategy reviews, support hearing and trial preparation, identify legal risk and quality control issues, help improve attorney judgment and independence, assist in onboarding and training new attorneys)
• Legal Operations & Quality Control (Ensure legal consistency across the team, improve workflow efficiency, support SOP implementation and legal systems development, reduce unnecessary write‑offs and realization leakage, monitor legal quality and client experience standards, help maintain accountability and case movement)
• Litigation & Client Representation (Maintain a reduced but meaningful caseload, handle complex litigation matters, assist with high‑risk or high‑conflict cases, participate in advanced legal strategy development, model high‑level client communication and professionalism)
• Leadership Contribution (Help strengthen firm culture, support accountability systems, participate in legal department leadership meetings, contribute to long‑term legal division scalability)

What Success Looks Like as a Supervising Partner

A successful Supervising Partner will help to improve attorney competency, reduce attorney dependency, improve realization, reduce operational bottlenecks, strengthen legal consistency, and improve overall legal division performance.

Qualifications

Required

• Juris Doctor (JD) degree from an accredited law school with active bar membership in good standing
• Minimum 5+ years of family law litigation experience (including trial experience)
• Extensive experience in family law practice with a proven track record of managing complex cases independently
• Strong courtroom and negotiation skills
• Strong legal judgment
• Exceptional communication skills
• Strong emotional intelligence
• Ability to manage multiple attorneys and priorities simultaneously
• Strong organizational and accountability skills
• Ability to provide clear feedback and mentorship

Preferred

• Prior supervision or mentorship experience
• Experience leading litigation strategy
• Experience building legal systems or workflows
• Experience in improving realization and collections
• Leadership experience in a high‑volume law firm environment

Compensation

$155,000–$300,000 per year (base salary and performance‑based incentives for leadership, origination, and collections).