Paralegal Manager - Family Based Immigration

Paralegal Manager - Family-Based Immigration

The Family-Based Immigration Paralegal Manager oversees a team of paralegals while maintaining a personal caseload. This role blends hands‑on casework, case management, and team leadership to ensure high‑quality legal services, consistent processes, and an excellent client experience. The Paralegal Manager plays a critical role in supporting attorneys, guiding paralegals, and ensuring matters move efficiently and accurately from intake through resolution.

This position is hybrid, with an expectation of working in the office at least three days per week and the option to work remotely up to two days per week.

The family‑based immigration Paralegal Manager manages a personal caseload of complex family‑based immigration matters, including petitions, applications, and related filings. Responsibilities include preparing cases for attorney review, drafting client correspondence, assembling complete and accurate filings, and tracking deadlines to ensure compliance with applicable requirements and firm standards.

In addition to hands‑on casework, the Paralegal Manager oversees case workflow and quality control for the team. This includes opening and assigning cases, monitoring deadlines and task completion, and reviewing cases to ensure they are accurate, complete, and ready for filing. The role requires close attention to detail and the ability to anticipate next steps to prevent delays and issues.

Client service is a core focus of this position. The Paralegal Manager communicates proactively with family‑based immigration clients, resolves case‑related issues, and ensures clients understand timelines, requirements, and next steps. This role involves building and maintaining professional, client‑centered relationships and supporting a positive client experience throughout the life of each case.

The Paralegal Manager supervises, mentors, and supports paralegals, promoting consistent work quality, collaboration, and professional growth. This includes providing guidance on case preparation, answering procedural questions, and helping team members develop their skills and confidence. The role contributes to a positive, high‑performing team environment where expectations are clear and support is readily available.

The Paralegal Manager also contributes to firm best practices by ensuring adherence to service and quality standards, preparing reports, reviewing correspondence and invoices, maintaining case status tracking, and identifying opportunities to improve processes, templates, and workflows.

• Five or more years of family‑based immigration paralegal experience required
• Two or more years of experience supervising or mentoring paralegals or legal staff strongly preferred
• Spanish language skills strongly preferred
• Bachelor's degree or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience
• Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and ability to manage multiple priorities
• Clear, professional written and verbal communication skills

We offer a collaborative and supportive team environment where professionalism, quality work, and client service are highly valued. This role provides the opportunity to combine leadership responsibilities with meaningful hands‑on legal work and to make a direct impact on clients and team members.

Our competitive compensation and benefits package includes generous paid time off, holidays, and birthday leave; a voluntary SIMPLE IRA retirement plan with a four percent company match; medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and long‑term disability coverage; paid medical and parental leave; a hybrid work schedule; and tuition reimbursement.

All offers of employment from Garfinkel Immigration Law Firm, as permissible under applicable federal, state, or local law, are conditional upon successful completion of a pre‑employment background check. Such investigations may include social security number, criminal background, driving record, credit history, prior employment history, educational history, and other matters related to suitability for employment. A separate disclosure and consent form will be provided after a contingent offer is extended and prior to any background check.