Lead BIA, Post-Filing Attorney

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🤠 Texas – Remote

🤠 Texas – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💼 Attorney / Lawyer

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C.R. Wannamaker Law

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2019

⚖️ Legal

👥 B2C

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C. R. Wannamaker Law is a U. S. -based law firm specializing in immigration law, providing confidential legal representation and guidance to immigrants—particularly Spanish-speaking clients—seeking to regularize their status. The firm handles VAWA petitions, U and T visas, family-based petitions, adjustment of status, deportation defense, naturalization, and other humanitarian immigration matters, and offers free initial consultations and multiple regional offices across the United States.

📋 Description

• Direct strategy for BIA appeals and related post-decision matters, including issue identification, standards of review, preservation concerns, and procedural options • Oversee drafting and quality review of notices of appeal, appellate briefs, motions, supporting records, and other filings • Assess filing deadlines, briefing schedules, jurisdictional requirements, and procedural posture • Advise attorneys on motions to reopen or reconsider and other post-decision or post-filing actions • Coordinate with removal-defense attorneys and case teams to obtain records, confirm litigation history, and maintain consistent strategy • Carry a reduced personal caseload while providing legal strategy, quality control, mentoring, and escalation support • Provide day-to-day legal guidance to assigned attorneys and functional oversight to paralegals and legal assistants • Review attorney work product and filings for accuracy, completeness, legal sufficiency, deadlines, and professional-responsibility compliance • Serve as an escalation point for complex matters, strategy changes, and elevated legal or ethical risk • Monitor case aging, filing deadlines, workload distribution, and quality trends; escalate resource or process concerns • Coordinate with lead paralegals and operations leadership on caseload distribution, workflow, training, and staffing needs • Mentor and onboard attorneys, deliver constructive feedback, and support department training • Participate in leadership meetings and collaborate on escalations and process improvements • Provide functional, operational, and managerial legal oversight for Associate Attorneys and functional legal direction to supporting paralegals and legal assistants

🎯 Requirements

• J.D. from an accredited law school • Active bar license in good standing in a jurisdiction relevant to assigned duties • 3–5 years of immigration law experience, including meaningful experience in the assigned practice area • 1–2 years of people-management, supervisory, or team-leadership experience • Substantive experience with immigration appeals, BIA procedures, legal research and brief writing, and post-decision or post-filing immigration practice • Demonstrated ability to manage legal work while directing, reviewing, and developing other attorneys • Strong legal writing, research, communication, organizational, and professional judgment skills • Ability to collaborate across distributed attorney, paralegal, and operations teams and appropriately escalate legal risk • Preferred: experience with EOIR litigation, motions practice, complex procedural analysis, coordination between trial-level and appellate teams, supervising geographically distributed teams, and improving legal quality-control processes

🏖️ Benefits

• Great Place To Work certification/recognition • Reduced individual caseload supporting capacity for legal strategy, quality control, mentoring, and escalation support • Mentoring, onboarding, and professional development through department training and consistent legal practices

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