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Immigration Consultation Attorney

Organization: Alonso & Alonso Attorneys at Law PLLC

Reports To: Managing Attorney

Employment Type: Full-Time, Exempt

Location: Remote – United States

About Us

At Alonso & Alonso Attorneys at Law, every client relationship begins with trust. As an Immigration Consultation Attorney, you serve as the first attorney prospective clients meet during one of the most important moments of their lives.

Our attorneys educate, guide, and empower individuals and families by helping them understand their immigration options while delivering exceptional legal consultations rooted in compassion, integrity, and legal excellence.

As one of the nation's fastest-growing immigration law firms, we combine innovative technology, collaborative legal teams, and client-centered service to transform lives through immigration law. Our Consultation Attorneys play a critical role in connecting prospective clients with the legal solutions that best fit their circumstances while establishing the foundation for successful attorney-client relationships.

Job Summary

The Immigration Consultation Attorney is responsible for conducting comprehensive legal consultations, evaluating immigration eligibility, identifying available forms of immigration relief, and recommending appropriate legal representation based upon each prospective client's individual circumstances.

This position serves as the firm's primary legal advisor during the consultation process. Rather than managing active litigation or preparing immigration filings, the Consultation Attorney focuses on providing legal guidance, developing preliminary legal strategies, educating prospective clients regarding immigration law, and helping qualified individuals make informed decisions regarding legal representation.

The ideal candidate demonstrates exceptional interpersonal skills, advanced immigration law knowledge, strong issue-spotting abilities, and the ability to communicate complex legal concepts in a compassionate, understandable, and ethical manner.

This is a fully remote position available to qualified candidates residing anywhere within the United States.

Essential Responsibilities and Duties

Legal Consultations & Client Advocacy

• Conduct comprehensive legal consultations across all immigration practice areas handled by the Firm.
• Evaluate prospective client eligibility through detailed legal analysis and client interviews.
• Identify all available immigration pathways based upon applicable statutes, regulations, and agency guidance.
• Explain immigration processes, expected timelines, filing requirements, government procedures, risks, benefits, and legal expectations.
• Develop preliminary legal strategies tailored to each client's unique circumstances.
• Build trusting attorney-client relationships through empathy, professionalism, and exceptional communication.
• Educate prospective clients regarding realistic legal expectations while helping them understand available legal options.
• Maintain the highest standards of attorney ethics, confidentiality, and professional responsibility.
• Ensure all legal advice complies with applicable Rules of Professional Conduct.

Client Experience & Consultation Excellence

• Deliver an exceptional consultation experience that reflects the Firm's commitment to client service.
• Build confidence in the Firm's legal expertise through thoughtful legal analysis and compassionate advocacy.
• Answer client questions regarding immigration procedures and legal strategy.
• Address concerns, objections, and uncertainties through education rather than sales tactics.
• Maintain complete and accurate consultation documentation within the Firm's case management platform.
• Coordinate seamless transitions from consultation to legal onboarding following execution of representation agreements.
• Collaborate closely with Intake Specialists, Client Experience teams, and Legal Operations to ensure efficient onboarding.

Collaboration & Operational Excellence

• Partner with Managing Attorneys regarding complex legal issues and consultation strategy.
• Participate in attorney education, legal updates, and consultation excellence training.
• Share best practices to improve consultation quality and client satisfaction.
• Assist leadership in identifying consultation trends, client concerns, and opportunities for operational improvement.
• Maintain consultation metrics and documentation in accordance with departmental standards.
• Foster a collaborative, mission-driven, client-centered work environment.

Required Qualifications

• Juris Doctor (J.D.) from an accredited law school.

• Active Bar License in good standing in at least one U.S. jurisdiction.

• Strong knowledge of United States immigration law.

• Excellent legal analysis and issue-spotting abilities.

• Exceptional verbal communication and active listening skills.

• Ability to build rapport with prospective clients.

• Strong organizational and documentation skills.

• High degree of professionalism and emotional intelligence.

• Ability to work independently within a fully remote environment.

• Commitment to ethical, legal practice and exceptional client service.

Preferred Qualifications

• Two (2) or more years of immigration law experience.

• Experience conducting legal consultations.

• Experience evaluating eligibility across multiple immigration practice areas.

• Experience working within a high-volume immigration law practice.

• Demonstrated success helping prospective clients understand complex immigration matters.

• Bilingual English and Spanish strongly preferred.

• Experience utilizing Litify, Salesforce, or comparable legal CRM platforms.

• Experience collaborating with intake or client experience teams.

Core Competencies

• Legal Consultation: Provide thoughtful legal guidance that empowers prospective clients to make informed decisions.
• Client Education: Translate complex immigration law into clear, understandable guidance.
• Relationship Building: Establish trust through empathy, professionalism, and exceptional communication.
• Legal Analysis: Quickly identify legal issues while developing sound preliminary legal strategies.
• Professional Judgment: Exercise exceptional legal judgment while maintaining ethical standards.
• Collaboration: Partner effectively with attorneys, intake specialists, legal operations, and leadership.
• Communication: Deliver clear, compassionate, and confident legal consultations that reflect the Firm's values.

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

• Consultation Quality: Maintain a consultation satisfaction rating of 90% or greater.
• Legal Recommendation Accuracy: Ensure legal recommendations consistently align with immigration law, Firm standards, and professional responsibility obligations.
• Consultation Documentation: Complete 100% of consultation notes and legal recommendations within established timelines.
• Client Responsiveness: Respond to prospective client communications within one business day whenever reasonably possible.
• Consultation Attendance: Maintain consultation attendance metrics consistent with departmental expectations.
• Client Conversion: Maintain consultation-to-retained-client conversion rates aligned with Firm performance goals while adhering to all applicable ethical standards.
• Collaboration: Complete 95% or greater of required coordination and onboarding activities within departmental timelines.
• Professional Development: Complete all required continuing legal education while actively participating in Firm-sponsored immigration law and consultation excellence training.

Work Environment & Schedule

• Full-Time, Exempt Position.

• This position generally follows standard business hours while maintaining professional flexibility to accommodate court schedules, detention visits, emergency hearings, and client needs.
• Position based in Texas.
• Regular travel throughout Texas is required for Immigration Court appearances, detention facility visits, client meetings, legal clinics, and firm-sponsored events.
• Occasional overnight travel may be required.
• Fast-paced, collaborative, mission-driven litigation environment dedicated to protecting the rights of immigrant families.

Salary & Benefits

Salary Range: DOE

This requisition may be filled at one of several Attorney career levels (Attorney I–V), depending on the selected candidate's education, licensure, post-bar experience, demonstrated legal expertise, litigation capabilities, leadership experience, and overall qualifications.

Placement within the applicable salary band is determined in accordance with the Firm's Attorney Staffing & Advancement Policy. Salary progression within each band is based on sustained performance, competency development, organizational contribution, client outcomes, and business needs.

Benefits

Alonso & Alonso Attorneys at Law offers a competitive and comprehensive total rewards package designed to support your health, financial security, professional growth, and work-life balance.

Benefits are reviewed annually and may be modified at the Firm’s discretion.

Health & Wellness

• The Firm currently covers 100% of employee medical plan premiums, providing access to quality healthcare without employee premium contribution.
• 100% Employer-Paid Medical Insurance Premium (Employee Coverage)
• The Firm currently covers 100% of employee medical plan premiums, providing access to quality healthcare without employee premium contribution.

• Vision Insurance

• Dental Insurance

• Employer-Paid Life Insurance

• Short-Term Disability Coverage

• Mental Health Support and Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

• Dedicated Benefits Support Team

Enhanced Wellness Resources

• Healthy Pregnancies Program

• Cigna Healthy Rewards – Discounts on fitness, nutrition, hearing, and vision services
• RecoveryOne for Cigna – Personalized musculoskeletal programs with licensed physical therapists and health coaches at no additional cost
• Omada Health Program – Support for Type 2 Diabetes and heart disease prevention and management
• Foodsmart Nutrition Program – Access to personal nutrition experts

• Amplifon Hearing Healthcare – Hearing-care savings and support

• Gym membership discounts

• Discounted HelloFresh subscription

Financial Security & Retirement

• 401(k) with 3% Employer-Funded Contribution

• Employer-Paid Life Insurance

• Short-Term Disability Coverage

Professional Growth

• Continuing Education Allowance

• Opportunities to participate in and potentially lead in-house Texas
• State Bar-approved Continuing Legal Education programs, fostering professional growth and subject-matter expertise
• Professional Development Opportunities

• Ongoing Immigration Law Training and Mentorship

• Removal Defense and Immigration Litigation Training

• Opportunities to develop advanced expertise in EOIR practice, appellate advocacy, detention matters, and complex humanitarian relief

Time Off & Leave

• Generous Paid Time Off

• Firm-recognized holidays

• Fully Paid New Parent Leave

• Unlimited PTO beginning at the third anniversary

Physical Demands

• The team member is regularly required to sit, stand, walk, communicate, and use their hands to perform work-related tasks.
• The position may require extended periods of computer use, legal research, document review, client communication, courtroom preparation, and travel.
• Occasional lifting of files, exhibits, records, and office materials weighing up to 10 pounds may be required.
• The attorney must be able to travel by vehicle or air throughout Texas and access immigration courts, detention facilities, government offices, client meeting locations, and firm facilities as required.
• Reasonable accommodations may be provided to qualified individuals with disabilities in accordance with applicable law.

Equal Opportunity Employment Statement

Alonso & Alonso Attorneys at Law is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace.

We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable federal, state, or local law.

Employment decisions are based on qualifications, merit, performance, organizational needs, and business requirements.