Phoenix, Arizona
Basking Ridge, New Jersey
Posted: 10-Feb-26
Location: Phoenix, Arizona
Type: Contract
Salary: USD $7,500 – $9,500 per month
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A role for innovative immigration attorneys who practice as administrative lawyers—building narratives as legal systems rather than operating as legal technicians.
Assistant Director / Director– Immigration Services
Next League Executive Board LLC | Phoenix, AZ | Remote / Hybrid
About the Firm
Next League Executive Board LLC is a licensed Alternative Business Structure (ABS) approved by the Arizona Supreme Court under ABS License No. 70228, pursuant to Arizona Supreme Court Rule 33.1 and ACJA § 7-209.
The firm operates a legally regulated model that integrates attorney-led immigration practice with audited, high-level evidentiary and analytical frameworks. Our EB-1A and O-1 petitions are intentionally constructed to withstand discretionary denial, administrative review, and deep judicial scrutiny.
The Role (Substantive and Non-Delegable)
We are engaging an immigration attorney to serve as Director – Immigration Services, operating as an independent contractor within the ABS.
You will act as the sole Attorney of Record and final legal decision-maker on assigned matters.
Next League does not direct your legal judgment, evidentiary conclusions, or adjudicative strategy.
This role is designed for attorneys who:
Handle discretionary adjudications as a matter of course
- Are comfortable with RFE / NOID-heavy records
- Think in terms of administrative law, evidence, and survivability beyond the agency
- Maintain full ownership of legal reasoning and professional accountability
- This is not a templated or volume-based practice.
Why This Role Exists
- Modern EB-1A adjudication has increasingly drifted toward unchecked discretion.
- Well-qualified petitions are often denied not because the law is unmet, but because:
- Evidence is discounted without articulated reasoning
- Expert opinions are ignored without specific, legitimate rebuttal
- Final-merits analysis is applied inconsistently or extra-statutorily
- Next League’s model exists to restore evidentiary discipline.
As Assistant Director/ Director – Immigration Services, you are not merely optimizing filings.
You are building records that bind discretion to evidence.
Your work is designed to:
- Survive RFEs and NOIDs through rigorous statutory framing
- Remain coherent under AAO or APA review
- Constrain arbitrariness by forcing rational evidentiary engagement
This role is for attorneys who believe that:
- Law is meant to bind discretion, not excuse it
- Evidence deserves to be weighed, not waved away
- Legal reasoning should matter beyond the file room
Core Responsibilities
Attorney of Record
Enter appearance before U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services via Form G-28.
Petition Architecture
Independently prepare EB-1A and O-1 petitions under 8 C.F.R. § 204.5(h) and § 214.2(o), including:
- Statutory framing
- Regulatory mapping
- Evidentiary sufficiency analysis
- Final-merits positioning consistent with Kazarian, Chawathe, and Amin
- RFE / NOID Advocacy
Lead responses grounded in:
- USCIS Policy Manual
- AAO reasoning patterns
- APA § 706 standards
- Due-process and evidentiary doctrine
- Expert & Analytical Evidence Review
Evaluate expert opinions, audited reports, and probabilistic analyses for:
- FRE 702 / Daubert reliability
- Internal methodological coherence
- Proper legal caveating
- Integrate such material into a defensible administrative record.
- ABS & Fiduciary Compliance
Operate within Arizona ABS governance while maintaining:
- Professional independence
- Ethical separation of legal and non-legal services
- Officer-of-the-court standards of candor, care, and accountability
- Participate in semi-annual compliance audits mandated by Arizona Supreme Court Administrative Order No. 2024-253.
Required Expertise & Competence (Read Carefully)
Candidates must demonstrate:
- Advanced EB-1A / O-1 jurisprudence, including final-merits litigation risk
- Administrative-law literacy, including arbitrary-and-capricious review
- Evidence-law fluency under FRE 401, 702, 703, and 901
- Professional fluency in reviewing expert and statistical evidence for admissibility and probative value (not authorship)
- ABS governance awareness, fiduciary discipline, and audit-aware legal practice
- Credentials: Juris Doctor (JD) and active bar licensure in good standing (Arizona preferred)
Who This Role Is Not For
This role is not suitable for attorneys who:
- Prefer checklist-driven EB-1A filings
- Avoid discretionary conflict
- Are uncomfortable scrutinizing expert or probabilistic evidence
- Expect institutional insulation from professional accountability
- This exclusion is intentional.
Engagement Terms
- Commitment: 20–30+ hours per week.
- Independent Contractor, At-Will: no partnership or agency relationship
- Compensation: Per-matter, by agreement, with a referral-fee framework compliant with Arizona ABS standards
- Malpractice Insurance: Provided under the firm’s policy
- Work Authorization: Open to U.S. Citizens, Green Card holders, and individuals with valid work authorization (including applicable visas). We prioritize a compliant, inclusive, and diverse workforce.
Designed for practitioners who demand firm-backed stability without sacrificing the intellectual rigor of high-stakes advocacy.
(No outcomes promised. No quotas imposed.)
Application
Interested attorneys may submit:
- A résumé
- A brief statement describing experience with evidence-intensive, discretionary immigration adjudications
- Final Note
Interested attorneys are invited to submit their application materials to recruitment@nextleagueprogram.com
If you want to practice immigration law where judgment still matters,
this role was written for you.
If you don’t, it wasn’t.
That line is the filter.