Founding Partner, Lawyer

About the role

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

• Admitted in New York and in good standing, senior enough that clients hire you rather than the letterhead behind you
• Bring a book of business—you know GCs, partners, founders and alumni who take your call, and you can turn those calls into engagements
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Like solving cases more than you like talking about solving cases—the legal craft is where your energy comes from
• Tech-curious—AI in law does not threaten you; it is the most interesting thing to happen to the profession in your career
• 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