100% Remote California Licensed Managing Attorney & General Counsel - The Los Angeles County Bar Association - LACBA

Pay Range: $150,000.00 -$180,000.00 per year

Are you a California-licensed attorney with civil litigation and management experience interested in leading a high-performing team of six lawyers?

Are you interested in doing legal work that can deliver life-changing results to deserving clients?

Are you comfortable with technology and interacting with a global team via the latest teleconferencing and videoconferencing technology?

Are you looking to join a team of smart, hardworking, and high-energy attorneys and legal professionals in one of the fastest growing law firms in the United States that has been certified as a Great Place to Work for four years in a row?

If you’ve answered yes to these questions, and your current employer does not offer the following perks:

1. 100% remote work with state-of-the-art firm-issued computer and telecommunications equipment;
2. Competitive compensation that includes unlimited bonuses tied to the achievement of objective quarterly milestones;
3. Open (unlimited!!!) paid time off;
4. Health, dental, vision, and life insurance starting within ninety days of full-time employment;
5. Paid holidays (ten days per year) and paid sick leave in accordance with state law;
6. Payment of California State Bar annual fees and any needed CLE courses to ensure compliance;
7. Professional growth opportunities; and
8. A 401(k) retirement plan with a mandatory employer contribution.

YOU MAY JUST BE THE PERSON WE’RE LOOKING FOR.

We are a fast-growing virtual tenant rights law firm dedicated to changing lives—one tenant at a time. We help California tenants who have been illegally evicted, discriminated against, harassed, or forced to endure uninhabitable living conditions recover money from their landlords. We are seeking a rock-star Managing Attorney & General Counsel who can hit the ground running.

The primary responsibilities of the Managing Attorney & General Counsel are to oversee and directly supervise the Legal Team; ensure that all Legal Team members are meeting or exceeding performance expectations; recommend, develop, and implement systems that optimize case management, reduce turnaround times, and enhance client satisfaction; and serve as the firm’s General Counsel, managing risk by limiting escalated matters and overseeing responses to client complaints, threats of claims, and other legal issues. This position will be responsible for critically important work, including:

• Hosting Daily and Weekly Meetings with the Legal Team.
• Overseeing the ongoing continuing legal education of all Handling Attorneys.
• Overseeing the provision of all legal services, ensuring adequate coverage for legal proceedings, and guiding other team members.
• Ensuring competent provision of legal services by the Legal Team.
• Hewing to the firm’s protocols for preparing for mediations and trials, ensuring all matters are thoroughly worked up to maximize each matter’s value.
• Managing and closely monitoring all trials in a supervisory and advisory capacity, ensuring that all Trials have Trial Counsel serving as first chair.
• Recording and entering daily productive time into the firm’s case management software.
• Tracking weekly Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for this position.
• In conjunction and consultation with the Executive Team, evaluating the Legal Team and making recommendations for recruitment, hiring, promotion, and termination.
• Ensuring at all times that the Legal Team is running efficiently and profitably.
• Managing the creation, maintenance, and accuracy of all legal team policies, procedures, processes, checklists, templates, forms, etc.
• Attending Daily Executive Team Huddles.
• Attending Weekly Executive Team Meetings, Weekly Team Meetings, Weekly Lunch & Learns.
• Overseeing Quarterly Action Planning Meetings with all Handling Attorneys.
• Collaborating with the Intake Attorney to ensure that the firm prosecutes only high-quality, high-value cases.
• Overseeing the withdrawal of the firm from Litigation Matters where permitted and appropriate under the California Rules of Professional Conduct.
• Proactively advising the CEO of any potential legal claims or bar complaints against Legal Team members and taking steps to mitigate risks.
• Resolving any potential or actual claims against the firm within the allotted budget.

If the following statements describe you, then you may be our Managing Attorney & General Counsel:

• You have experience supervising and training attorneys and legal staff.
• You are comfortable in Court and have first- or second-chaired a trial.
• You are and can be both compassionate and direct with individuals you supervise.
• Your leadership style is collaborative and oriented to results.
• You are a self-starter and problem-solver who can diffuse tense situations.
• You have an empathetic and understanding manner with clients.
• You believe in the firm’s commitment to work-life balance but are nonetheless prepared to arrive early, stay late, and work on weekends when necessary to get the job done.
• You pay great attention to detail. You proofread documents and emails; can spot and fix grammar errors, spelling errors, typos, formatting errors, etc.; you do not let important details slip through the cracks or derail a project.
• You are comfortable with numbers and can use Excel.
• You expect personal performance and team performance to be nothing short of the best.
• You are trustworthy, do not cut corners ethically, earn trust and maintain confidences when appropriate, and, most importantly, do what is right, not just what is expedient.
• You are innovative, growth-minded, can generate new and creative approaches to problems, and can maximize value and use of technology and other resources.
• You can act without being told what to do and bring new ideas to the CEO.
• You work at a fast pace with the ability to move between tasks quickly, are not overwhelmed with volume or by deadlines, and spend time on tasks that add value.
• You develop and nurture productive and professional relationships with clients and staff and are both approachable yet stern when the circumstances require.
• You are self-directed, able to assess a situation and determine what needs to be done and then do it.
• Your middle name is “No Drama.”
• You are an awesome juggler of tasks and can change gears quickly.
• You do not think of any task as “beneath you.”

We are seeking a highly experienced Managing Attorney & General Counsel with a proven track record of leading at least six attorneys and experience in an executive role at a company or firm with a minimum revenue of $5 million (or equivalent experience). The Managing Attorney & General Counsel should have a successful history of supervising and training legal teams, demonstrating exceptional legal acumen through civil litigation experience.

The Managing Attorney & General Counsel must be an active member of the State Bar of California with a discipline-free record. Proficiency in legal technology is essential, including familiarity with the Windows Operating System, Microsoft Office 365 (Teams, OneDrive), Adobe Acrobat Pro, Clio Manage, Lawmatics, Keeper Security, and Zoom. The ability to quickly adapt to new technologies is also a valuable asset. Strong legal research and writing skills are essential, with a demonstrated ability to effectively utilize Westlaw.

The ideal candidate will have a positive attitude and sense of humor, and be willing to follow policies, systems, and procedures.

This is a full-time job, and you absolutely must be able to work for at least forty hours per week. Work will be performed 100% virtually. Salary depends on experience. Total compensation includes bonuses tied to the achievement of objective quarterly milestones (in full compliance with California law and the California Rules of Professional Conduct); open (unlimited) PTO; health, dental, and vision benefits starting within ninety days of full-time employment; paid holidays (ten days per year) and sick leave in accordance with state law; payment of California State Bar annual fees and any needed CLE courses to ensure compliance; and a 401(k) retirement plan with a mandatory employer contribution.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.