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Job description
O’Connor Family Law (OCFL) is seeking 1–2 highly skilled, emotionally intelligent, and operationally disciplined family law attorneys to serve as a Supervising Partner within our growing family law firm with offices in Westborough and Hanover, Massachusetts. This role is designed for attorneys who are strong legal strategists, natural mentors, calm under pressure, highly accountable, and capable of helping to build and scale a premium family law division.
Our firm focuses on divorce, custody, and family transformation.
Responsibilities
Attorney Supervision & Development (Serve as the primary escalation point for associate attorney legal strategy questions, coach and mentor developing attorneys, conduct file strategy reviews, support hearing and trial preparation, identify legal risk and quality control issues, help improve attorney judgment and independence, assist in onboarding and training new attorneys)
Legal Operations & Quality Control (Ensure legal consistency across the team, improve workflow efficiency, support SOP implementation and legal systems development, reduce unnecessary write‑offs and realization leakage, monitor legal quality and client experience standards, help maintain accountability and case movement)
Litigation & Client Representation (Maintain a reduced but meaningful caseload, handle complex litigation matters, assist with high‑risk or high‑conflict cases, participate in advanced legal strategy development, model high‑level client communication and professionalism)
Leadership Contribution (Help strengthen firm culture, support accountability systems, participate in legal department leadership meetings, contribute to long‑term legal division scalability)
What Success Looks Like as a Supervising Partner
A successful Supervising Partner will help to improve attorney competency, reduce attorney dependency, improve realization, reduce operational bottlenecks, strengthen legal consistency, and improve overall legal division performance.
Qualifications
Required
Juris Doctor (JD) degree from an accredited law school with active bar membership in good standing
Minimum 5+ years of family law litigation experience (including trial experience)
Extensive experience in family law practice with a proven track record of managing complex cases independently
Strong courtroom and negotiation skills
Strong legal judgment
Exceptional communication skills
Strong emotional intelligence
Ability to manage multiple attorneys and priorities simultaneously
Strong organizational and accountability skills
Ability to provide clear feedback and mentorship
Preferred
Prior supervision or mentorship experience
Experience leading litigation strategy
Experience building legal systems or workflows
Experience in improving realization and collections
Leadership experience in a high‑volume law firm environment
Compensation
$155,000–$300,000 per year (base salary and performance‑based incentives for leadership, origination, and collections).
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Worksite address
westborough, MA, 01581, US
Who can apply
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