Corporate Immigration Attorney (Contract)

What You'll Do

• Build and carry individual immigration cases — EB-1A, EB-2 NIW, and O-1A — through every milestone from a clean handoff to a strong, filing-ready submission, with a Managing Attorney's second-chair review before anything files.

• Carry a full production caseload — roughly 35-40 active matters at a time — with complete control over how you structure your own days and week.

• Own the client relationship through the life of each case, not just the file: clients should always feel informed and never have to chase you for updates.

• Use Manifest's AI tools and technology — automated handoffs, smart draft tracking, and a unified case-context hub — so every hour you put in goes toward case-advancing work, not coordination.

• Work exclusively with Manifest for the duration of your engagement, focused entirely on case production — consultations are handled by Manifest's consulting associates, not by you.

What We're Looking For

• J.D. and active U.S. bar admission

• Minimum 3 years' experience as a practicing attorney, with hands-on work in EB-1A, EB-2 NIW, O-1A, H-1B, or family- and marriage-based matters — solo practitioners welcome

• Rigor, ownership, and strong writing across extraordinary-ability and high-skilled petition work

• Client-management polish: you own the relationship, not just the file

• The ability to take a matter from a clean handoff to completion without being managed

• Comfort with a 1099 independent-contractor engagement and a full, exclusive production caseload

How the Engagement Works

This is contract case production, paid per case rather than by hour or salary. You are engaged as an independent contractor (1099/W-9), exclusively to Manifest for the duration of the engagement, with no benefits or paid time off.

Each case carries its own agreed fee, paid out on a predictable monthly cycle as cases are signed and filed. Manifest sources and assigns a full caseload; you're also free to bring in cases on your own. Self-originated cases — matters you bring in through your own network — are paid at a higher rate than Manifest-sourced cases. Every case, regardless of source, is worked to Manifest's standard: aggressive SLAs, rigorous legal quality, and client communication that earns loyalty.

For solo practitioners: you keep your own book of business, run through Manifest's platform instead of on your own. We handle admin, billing, and marketing — you focus on the cases. It's a co-counsel model: full practice-team support and infrastructure, without the overhead of running a practice alone.

Why Attorneys Join Manifest

• Higher-agency work | Intake, document collection, status tracking, and client updates run through Manifest OS — the administrative weight of practice, handled. Your day goes to strategy, drafting, and the client: the work that actually requires a lawyer.

• No billable hour | We charge clients flat fees, so there's no timekeeping requirement and no billable target. Your work is judged on outcomes — what gets filed and how clients experience the relationship — not hours recorded.

• Remote by design | The entire legal side of the firm works remotely. It's how the firm was built, and there are no plans to change it — practice from wherever you do your best work.

• Real upside | Pay is competitive from day one, with incentives tied to client outcomes and firm performance, so strong work is rewarded as the practice grows.

• Ground floor | Manifest is an ambitious firm building the infrastructure to last — and to change the way law firms operate. Attorneys who join now grow with it: into senior roles, into leadership, into shaping what the practice becomes next.

• Your experience shapes the practice | Attorney feedback and firsthand case experience directly inform what the firm builds next, so the technology keeps evolving around how the best lawyers actually work.

Ready to Help Redefine Legal Work?

We are not looking for case processors or attorneys waiting for the next rung. We're looking for attorneys who lead through expertise, treat Manifest's technology as a genuine performance multiplier rather than a shortcut, and want to do the most meaningful work of their careers at a firm built for how law should actually work.

The attorneys who thrive here are full-time, deeply client-centered, tech-forward, and mission-driven — energized by building something real, not just joining something finished. If that's you, we want to hear from you.