Job Type
Full-time
Description
This is not just another attorney role. This is a leverage role. If you're a solid patent attorney but tired of:
- Producing work with no influence
- Working in broken systems you can't fix
- Managing chaos without authority
This is your opportunity to step into a role where you
build, lead, and scale.
What This Role Actually Does You will operate as both a
high-level contributor and internal leader.
- Draft and prosecute complex patent matters
- Handle client communication and relationship support
- Oversee legal assistants (workflow, deadlines, quality)
- Build and improve internal legal workflows
- Act as the right hand to the CEO on legal operations
This role is about
production + leverage.
What You'll Be Measured On - Billables, realization rate, and budget targets
- Quality (minimal CEO revisions, zero errors)
- Team leverage (how effectively assistants are utilized)
- Workflow improvement (things get smoother, not messier)
- Reduction of CEO involvement in day-to-day legal ops
What Success Looks Like By 30 days:You're producing work and understanding systems + team
By 60 days:You're managing assistants, running check-ins, fixing friction points
By 90 days:You are owning legal workflows, acting as QA layer before CEO, reducing CEO time spent on filings + oversight
This Role Is NOT For You If: - You only want to produce work and not lead
- You've never successfully managed support staff
- You wait for permission instead of solving problems
- You resist ambiguity or evolving systems
- You lack the interpersonal skills to lead respectfully
Requirements
Required Background - Chemistry / life sciences background (required)
- JD + Patent Bar +
- Prior patent prosecution experience (multi-year)
- Demonstrated experience managing legal assistants or similar staff
- Experience improving or owning workflows (not just participating in them)
The Kind of Person Who Thrives Here - Operator mindset-you fix things, not just flag them
- Strong communicator (clear, direct, respectful)
- Highly organized and systems-oriented
- Humble but confident-no ego, no passivity
- Comfortable in a growing, non-corporate firm
Apply If You Want to Build, Not Just Bill If you want to:
- Step into real responsibility
- Help shape how a firm operates
- Grow into leadership
Apply.
If you just want a stable role where you execute tasks and go home-this is not that role.
Application Requirements: Please submit a resume and a brief cover letter explaining your interest in this role and in working at a smaller, non-corporate law firm.
Salary Description
$160,000 - $200,000
