Founding Partner, Lawyer

Omnilex • San Francisco, CA

2d • Remote

About The Position

The law firm has not changed in a hundred years. Its unit of production is still an hour of a lawyer's attention, and its only way to grow is to buy more of those hours. Every insight a firm produces is billed once and then lost. So we are building the whole thing again from the infrastructure up. Every system a practice actually runs on: intake, conflicts, research, drafting, review, matter management, billing. Rebuilt so the machine does the work and the lawyer makes the calls. Judgement, advocacy and client relationships stay with lawyers. And every case teaches the next one. Not just operationally, where a workflow gets reused, but on the legal level: the argument that worked, the position that held, the counterparty's playbook, the clause that survived negotiation, the reasoning a court accepted. A traditional firm loses all of it the moment the file closes. Ours captures it, structures it, and has it ready the next time a similar matter walks in. The firm gets better with every case rather than merely busier. We are already operational and established in Switzerland, where the firm runs on this infrastructure today. California is next. The US practice does not exist yet. That is the point, but it is not a bet on an untested idea. It is the second market for a model that already works, built by a team whose legal AI is already in daily use by 8,000 lawyers.

Requirements

• Admitted in California and in good standing.
• Senior enough that clients hire you rather than the letterhead behind you.
• Bring a book of business (GCs, partners, founders, alumni who take your call and can turn into engagements).
• Have thought about leaving to start your own firm but were deterred by the prospect of building a back office.
• Desire ownership, not a salary line.
• Find founder equity in the MSO plus the economics of your own firm more interesting than any partnership track.
• Know the ethics cold: independence of judgement, fee-sharing, confidentiality, unauthorised practice.
• Understand MSO structures and their limits.
• Like solving cases more than talking about solving cases.
• Be tech-curious.
• View AI in law as the most interesting development in your career, not a threat.
• Be comfortable being early (no brand, no precedent bank, no support staff on day one).

Nice To Haves

• 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.

Responsibilities

• Own and run the law firm, including its license, entity, clients, and professional judgment.
• Co-found the management services organization (MSO) with real equity.
• Build and run the MSO, which handles everything that is not the practice of law: AI systems, engineering, operations, finance, marketing, admin, and recruiting.
• Serve the firm under an arm's-length services agreement as part of the MSO.
• Solve cases and engage in legal craft.
• Build a firm without building a back office.
• Ensure every matter solved becomes a service that outlives it and compounds across every client.

Benefits

• Co-founder equity in the MSO.
• A seat at the table.
• Upside that scales with both entities.
• Opportunity to build a firm without building a back office.
• The license, entity, and judgment are yours; the machinery is co-founded.
• Expertise stops evaporating; every matter solved becomes a compounding service.
• Opportunity to be a co-founder of an AI-native law firm and define the next generation of firms.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed