Bilingual Intake Consultation Attorney

Practice Area: Humanitarian Immigration (VAWA, T, U)

The Role

This is the attorney who sits across from a prospective client — often someone describing abuse, trafficking, or years of fear — and, in a single conversation, has to figure out three things: what happened, what relief that person may qualify for, and whether this firm should take the case.

It is the highest-leverage seat in the firm. A missed bar, an unspotted prior removal order, or an eligibility call made on incomplete facts follows the case for years. We are looking for someone whose issue spotting is genuinely excellent and who can exercise that judgment in real time, in Spanish, with someone who is frightened.

Core Responsibilities

Consultations

• Conduct initial consultations in Spanish and English, by phone and by video, with survivors of domestic violence, trafficking, and violent crime.
• Elicit a complete factual history using trauma-informed interviewing — including facts clients frequently omit, minimize, or do not recognize as legally significant.
• Explain available relief, realistic timelines, and risks in plain, non-technical Spanish, without guaranteeing outcomes.

Eligibility analysis and issue spotting

• Assess eligibility across the humanitarian relief spectrum and identify the strongest available path, including alternative or backup filings.
• Identify inadmissibility and deportability issues at the consultation stage and determine what waivers, if any, are available.
• Flag facts that make a case complex, high-risk, or unsuitable for the firm, and recommend decline or referral where appropriate.
• Escalate novel or unsettled questions to supervising counsel rather than resolving them at the desk.

Documentation and handoff

• Record a written eligibility analysis for every consultation — facts obtained, relief identified, bars identified, recommendation, and open questions — sufficient for a case team to work from and for the file to withstand later scrutiny.
• Quote fees strictly per the firm's published fee schedule and scope definitions; no off-schedule commitments.
• Deliver clean handoffs to the assigned case team, including a prioritized document-collection list and any deadline exposure.

Declines and referrals

• Communicate declines clearly and compassionately, in writing where required, with no legal advice beyond the scope of the consultation and no implication of representation.
• Maintain and use a vetted referral network for cases outside the firm's practice.
• Identify and report indicators of fraud, coached testimony, third-party solicitation, or prior notario involvement.

Compliance

• Adhere to applicable rules of professional conduct, including those governing scope of representation, fee agreements, confidentiality, conflicts, solicitation, and communications with prospective clients.
• Screen for and document conflicts before substantive discussion.
• Complete required firm compliance training and audits.

Required Qualifications

• J.D. from an accredited law school.
• Active license and good standing in at least one U.S. jurisdiction. (Immigration practice is federal; state of licensure is flexible.)
• Full professional fluency in Spanish and English, including the ability to conduct a legally precise interview in Spanish and to translate legal concepts into accessible language. Fluency will be assessed in a live exercise.
• [3]+ years of immigration practice with substantial hands-on humanitarian caseload experience.
• Demonstrated working knowledge of:
• VAWA self-petitions (I-360) — qualifying relationship, good faith marriage, battery or extreme cruelty, residence and good moral character requirements
• T nonimmigrant status — force/fraud/coercion analysis, physical presence, law enforcement cooperation and the reasonable-request standard
• U nonimmigrant status — qualifying criminal activity, substantial harm, helpfulness certification, waitlist and bona fide determination process
• Command of inadmissibility and its interaction with humanitarian relief, including:
• INA § 212(a)(9)(B) and (9)(C) unlawful presence bars
• Criminal grounds and the basics of crimmigration analysis
• Prior removal orders, in absentia orders, reinstatement, and expedited removal exposure
• Prior fraud or misrepresentation, including false claims to U.S. citizenship
• Available waivers — I-192, I-601, I-601A, I-212 — and which forms of relief carry which waiver authority
• Ability to recognize the consequences of prior filings: earlier petitions, denials, withdrawn applications, pending matters with other counsel, and prior contact with DHS.

Preferred Qualifications

• EOIR/removal defense experience.
• Experience in a high-volume practice with structured intake.
• Formal trauma-informed interviewing training.
• Familiarity with cloud-based immigration case management platforms.
• Experience supervising or training paralegal intake staff.

What We're Actually Looking For

• Judgment under time pressure. You will make consequential calls with incomplete facts on a clock. We need you to know the difference between a question you can answer and one you must escalate.
• Comfort saying no. The ability to decline a sympathetic case, or to tell someone that a prior removal order changes everything, without softening the message into something the client will misunderstand.
• Precision in writing. Your consultation memo is the record. It should be legible to a case team, to supervising counsel, and, if it ever comes to it, to a reviewing body.
• Warmth that does not become promise-making. Survivors deserve compassion. They do not deserve optimism that isn't supported by the law.

Pay: $100,000.00 - $120,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Work Location: Remote