[Hiring] Practice Lead/Owner (B2C Extraordinary Ability) - Senior Immigration Attorney @Manifest Law

Role Description

Lead and own a practice within Manifest's individual-immigration business — extraordinary-ability and high-skilled matters, including EB-1A, EB-2 NIW, and O-1A — with full accountability for its growth, quality, and profitability.

• Be the face of your practice: featured in Manifest's content, on socials, in client-facing materials, and in the press. Clients should know your name and choose Manifest because they trust you specifically.
• Build and lead a team of attorneys and paralegals — hiring, developing, and holding your pod to Manifest's quality bar, coaching them through the hardest calls and highest-stakes matters.
• Drive business development for your practice, working with Manifest's marketing and BD engine while building your own network and referral base.
• Use Manifest's AI-powered platform — automated workflows, smart draft review, and a unified case-context hub — as a genuine performance multiplier for your team, not a replacement for your judgment.
• Own the P&L for your practice: case source, team performance, and client satisfaction all roll up to your bottom line.

Qualifications

• J.D. and active U.S. bar admission
• 10+ years of immigration experience with deep expertise in extraordinary-ability and high-skilled categories — EB-1A, EB-2 NIW, and O-1A — including attorneys who have already built or run their own practice
• A demonstrated track record leading and developing attorneys, not just carrying your own docket
• Comfort with public visibility — thought leadership, social presence, media, and client-facing events
• A professional network and reputation that generates referrals and inbound client trust
• Genuine entrepreneurial ambition: you want to build a practice, not just staff one

Requirements

• Every Manifest attorney — and every practice they lead — is held to the same floor: aggressive response-time SLAs, rigorous legal quality, and the client communication standard that makes clients pay a premium for Manifest. That standard doesn't flex with case source or volume.

Benefits

• Higher-agency work: Intake, document collection, status tracking, and client updates run through Manifest OS — the administrative weight of practice, handled. Your day goes to strategy, drafting, and the client: the work that actually requires a lawyer.
• No billable hour: We charge clients flat fees, so there's no timekeeping requirement and no billable target. Your work is judged on outcomes — what gets filed and how clients experience the relationship — not hours recorded.
• Remote by design: The entire legal side of the firm works remotely. It's how the firm was built, and there are no plans to change it — practice from wherever you do your best work.
• Real upside: Pay is competitive from day one, with incentives tied to client outcomes and firm performance, so strong work is rewarded as the practice grows.
• Ground floor: Manifest is an ambitious firm building the infrastructure to last — and to change the way law firms operate. Attorneys who join now grow with it: into senior roles, into leadership, into shaping what the practice becomes next.
• Your experience shapes the practice: Attorney feedback and firsthand case experience directly inform what the firm builds next, so the technology keeps evolving around how the best lawyers actually work.

Compensation & Pay Transparency

Manifest is a remote-first firm, and this role is open to candidates in the United States. The good-faith salary range for this position is $200K–$250K USD. This range reflects base compensation and may not include bonus, equity, or other components of total compensation. Actual pay is determined by a range of factors, including but not limited to the candidate's location, experience, education, and skills, as well as the specific scope of the role. Candidates outside of the United States are welcome to apply, and compensation will be assessed according to regional models.

Our Use of AI in Recruiting

Manifest uses AI-powered tools to support administrative aspects of our recruitment process, such as organizing applications and surfacing candidate information for review. Some interviews may also be recorded and transcribed using an AI note-taking tool, used solely to support accurate note-taking — it does not score, analyze, or evaluate candidates in any way. These tools do not make hiring decisions, and no candidate is advanced, screened out, or otherwise dispositioned without review by a member of our human recruiting team. You are welcome to ask any interviewer for a non-recorded conversation instead. If you would like to request a reasonable accommodation or an alternative application process at any stage, please contact your recruiter.