Job Description
Job Description
Executive Leader and Strategic Manager of a High-Performing Team
No one wins in divorce court. Call a Truce. We're looking for the leader who can make that happen at scale.
Stop scrolling if you are an experienced family law attorney ready to transition into a pivotal executive role that directly influences team stability, financial performance, and exceptional client outcomes.
If you’re a Washington family law leader committed to coaching a team toward a healthier, high-impact practice, Truce Law is the place for you. We are a fully remote firm operating within Washington state.
Why Leaders Thrive at Truce Law (Compensation & Benefits)
We believe that providing our leaders with a supportive, well-compensated environment is key to providing exceptional client service and team stability.
- Target Compensation: $160,000 – $275,000+ (Base salary + client generation, and leadership bonuses). This range reflects a highly competitive guaranteed base plus significant earning potential from your branch's success. High performers and top leaders can exceed $275,000 annually.
Incentive Compensation: Rewarding Managerial Success
Your total compensation includes a quarterly Incentive Compensation Plan rewarding your managerial success in four key areas, giving you executive ownership over your branch's performance:
- Team Utilization Bonus: Directly tied to your branch's billable hours performance (with payouts triggered above 90% utilization).
- Case Efficiency Bonus: Measures your success in coaching attorneys and utilizing your Legal Case Manager to keep the team’s past-due tasks below a 10% rate.
- Client Quality Bonus: Based on proactively preventing client issues, measured by an Escalation Rate of 0.5% or less.
- Team Retention Bonus: A heavily-tiered payout structure that rewards 100% annual retention of your direct reports, incentivizing long-term stability and leadership.
Standard Benefits:
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance (employer-paid coverage for employees)
- Four weeks Paid Time Off (Three weeks PTO + One-week paid winter holiday closure).
- 10 paid holidays
- 401(k) with 3% firm contribution
- Flexible schedule
- 10% new client generation bonus
- Performance bonuses
- Firm-provided technology and support
- Lifestyle Spending Account (LSA)
- Professional Development Stipend
- AAA Membership: Roadside assistance, identity theft protection, discounted pet insurance
The Truce Mindset: Leading with Foresight and Autonomy
Our "Truce Mindset" guides every role, and as a Managing Attorney, you are the primary culture champion for your dedicated legal branch. You are granted the autonomy to staff, coach, and manage your branch as an independent unit within the firm's supportive framework.
This commitment looks like:
- Authentically Engaged Leadership: You actively coach your direct reports on legal processes, time management, and effective delegation. You facilitate regular one-on-ones and social activities to create a strong sense of community and cohesion.
- Proactive Delegation & Process: You ensure your reporting attorneys consistently delegate research and administrative tasks to their own legal pod, maximizing the capacity of the entire branch and ensuring sustainable health.
- Strong Professional Judgment: You own all staffing decisions (hiring, performance management, separation) for your team, working closely with HR. You are the final point of contact for resolving high-level client escalations that require sensitive, experienced intervention.
Compensation:
$160,000 - $275,000 yearly
Responsibilities:
What You’ll Do: Strategic Ownership of a Legal Branch
This role is a blend of Team Leadership, Financial Acumen, and Strategic Legal Intervention. You will report directly to the Director of Legal.
I. Team Leadership, Staffing & Coaching (Your Primary Focus)
- Direct Supervision: Directly supervise a multidisciplinary team of up to six direct reports: up to four Attorneys, one Legal Case Manager (LCM), and one dedicated Client Happiness Coordinator (CHC).
- Talent Management & Autonomy: Own the full employee lifecycle for your direct reports, including hiring, onboarding, performance management, and separation decisions, working closely with HR.
- Culture & Ethics: Promote mutual respect and ensure your legal team adheres to the highest ethical standards and firm policies.
II. Executive Financial Ownership & Quality Control
- Executive Financial Ownership: Act as the CEO of your branch’s P&L, driving financial performance by analyzing billed/collected reports and billing metrics to ensure the branch meets firm financial goals.
- Reporting: Prepare and deliver a Legal Production Report weekly, forecasting your team’s expected billed hours to the Director of Legal.
- Workflow Coordination: Supervise your Legal Case Manager in monitoring deadlines and case outliers, and coordinate their work with the Client Happiness Coordinator to form a cohesive, client-focused support structure.
- Client Happiness: Oversee the CHC's management of client expectations and step in to resolve any high-level client escalations that the CHC cannot handle.
III. Strategic Legal Coverage & Intervention
- Coverage Attorney: Serve as the coverage attorney for your direct reports when they are out or double-booked.
- Strategic Intervention: Contribute approximately 10 billable hours per week by intervening on high-risk matters, addressing ethical conflict resolution, high-risk litigation management, or critical attorney overflow.
- Sales Support: Handle overflow Paid Consultations with prospective clients when the Mentoring Attorney is unavailable.
Qualifications:
Who We’re Looking For: The Collaborative Advocate Leader
You are a professional committed to both excellence and empathy.
- Experience & Licensure: Current Washington State Bar license with 5+ years of relevant family law experience.
- Team First Mentality: Proven experience supervising diverse roles (Attorneys, Case Manager, Coordinator) with a focus on stability and high retention.
- Financial Acumen: Expert in analyzing and interpreting billing/collection metrics and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to guide team success.
- Strong Professional Judgment: Demonstrated ability to manage high-stakes decisions, including staffing, ethical conflict resolution, and complex client crises.
- Delegation Mastery: Demonstrated success in delegating complex legal and administrative tasks to leverage the entire team (Attorneys, Paralegals, and Coordinators) for maximum efficiency and well-being.
About Company
Our Mission: Redefining Family Law
We help people who feel the need to separate do so in a way that minimizes the damage to them and those they love. Founded on February 14, 2018, our mission is simple: Collaborative, thoughtful, and client-centered family law.
Families that work with us strive to navigate legal challenges with less litigation, more resolution, and greater respect for everyone involved. Our approach is designed to ease client worries, focusing on finding common ground, not creating conflict, to protect relationships and secure stable futures.
At Truce Law, your earning potential grows with your contributions.
We’re growth-minded, professional, and human. Join us if you want to make a real impact for families while building a thriving career.
Confidentiality: All applications are fully confidential.