Founding Partner, Lawyer

Omnilex AG

$250K — $300K *
Legal & Accounting
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Admitted to the New York Bar and in good standing.
  • Established network of clients, including GCs and partners who engage your services.
  • Experience considering starting your own firm, but seeking efficiency in operational setup.
  • Desire for equity ownership rather than a traditional salary or partnership track.
  • Strong understanding of legal ethics and the principles governing MSOs.

Responsibilities

  • Serve as both the owner of the law firm and the co-founder of the management services organization (MSO).
  • Build and run the AI systems and operational aspects of the firm in collaboration with Omnilex.
  • Develop and maintain client relations that translate into business engagements.
  • Oversee all aspects of legal practice while the MSO handles non-legal operational responsibilities.
  • Lead the creation of a law firm structure that integrates advanced technology.

Benefits

  • Ownership of your own law firm and equity in the MSO you help create.
  • Ability to build a practice without the typical burdens of back-office setup.
  • Opportunity to define the future of AI-native law firms and be a pioneer in the field.
  • Creation of solutions that enhance client service and practice longevity.
  • Collaboration with an innovative team dedicated to legal technologies.
Full Job Description
The role

This is not a job. We are not hiring you.

We are looking for one lawyer to build the AI-native law firm with us, structured the way New York requires and the way it should be built anyway:
  • You own the law firm. Your licence, your entity, your clients, your professional judgement. Nobody on our side has any say over it, and that is not negotiable from either direction.
  • We incorporate the MSO together. You and Omnilex co-found the management services organization as founders, with real equity on both sides. The MSO builds and runs everything that is not the practice of law: the AI systems the firm runs on, engineering, operations, finance, marketing, admin, recruiting.
  • The MSO serves the firm under an arm's-length services agreement and takes a services fee for it.

Two hats, then: the lawyer who owns and runs the firm, and the co-founder who builds the MSO that makes the firm faster than any firm has been. Both start empty. You build both.

Who you are
  • You are admitted in New York and in good standing, senior enough that clients hire you rather than the letterhead behind you.
  • You bring a book. You know GCs, partners, founders and alumni who take your call, and you can turn those calls into engagements.
  • You have thought about leaving to start your own firm and the only reason you haven't is that you did not want to spend three years building a back office to do it.
  • You want ownership, not a salary line. Founder equity in the MSO plus the economics of your own firm is more interesting to you than any partnership track.
  • You know the ethics cold: independence of judgement, fee-sharing, confidentiality, unauthorised practice. You see MSO structures for what they are, and you know exactly where the limits sit.
  • You like solving cases more than you like talking about solving cases. The legal craft is where your energy comes from.
  • You are tech-curious. AI in law does not threaten you; it is the most interesting thing to happen to the profession in your career.
  • You are comfortable being early. No brand, no precedent bank, no support staff on day one, and that reads as opportunity to you, not risk.

Bonus: experience building or advising on MSO, ABS or other alternative legal service structures; prior ownership of a P&L or a practice group; litigation experience alongside advisory work; a second language.

Why build this with us
  • You get to build a firm without building a back office. The licence, the entity and the judgement are yours; the machinery is what we co-found together.
  • You are a co-founder of the MSO, not an employee of it. Founder equity, a seat at the table, and upside that scales with both entities.
  • Your expertise stops evaporating. Every matter you solve becomes a service that outlives it and compounds across every client after.
  • You get to be first. There are only a very few AI-native law firms yet. The person who builds one that works will define what the next generation of firms looks like.

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