COO

Are you a champion of operational excellence, ready to lead a high-impact litigation firm with precision, empathy, and innovation?

Do you have the strategic acumen and legal fluency to drive firmwide transformation — optimizing performance, improving outcomes, and ensuring accountability across multiple divisions?

Can you manage the intricacies of legal operations at scale, mentoring both rising and established legal professionals while aligning cross-functional teams toward shared case deadlines and firm goals?

Is your leadership style grounded in relentless follow-through, fierce ownership, and the ability to elevate others with clarity and discipline?

Final question: When faced with a challenge, do you get excited or run away?

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Onder Law is a nationally recognized litigation firm based in the St. Louis metro area, known for securing landmark results in personal injury, mass torts, environmental litigation, sexual abuse cases, and class action lawsuits. With a client-first culture and a proven track record of billion-dollar outcomes, we are now entering an exciting phase of strategic growth.

As we scale, we are seeking a dynamic, in-office Chief Operating Officer (COO) to lead and optimize all non-financial operational functions of the firm. This executive will report directly to the Managing Partner and work closely with leaders across finance, HR, IT, and legal operations to align cross-departmental performance and ensure consistent case progress, accountability, and client service excellence. This is a fully on-site role based in St.

Louis, requiring daily, hands-on engagement with our teams and operations.

• Oversee all non-financial operations across divisions, ensuring systems, personnel, and workflows support efficient case progress and performance outcomes.
• Implement and optimize firmwide systems and technologies to streamline processes, elevate client service, and improve efficiency across the full case lifecycle.
• Own operational KPIs tied to team productivity, case closure timelines, client satisfaction, and backlog reduction.

• Hold business unit leaders (e.g., PI, Mass Tort, Class Action) accountable for both legal outcomes and team development, ensuring they fulfill responsibilities as both attorneys and operational leaders.
• Support and challenge attorneys — especially junior and mid-level litigators — to meet court deadlines, hit strategic goals, and elevate leadership capacity within their respective legal divisions.
• Familiarize yourself with active cases to proactively ask the right questions, identify bottlenecks, and reinforce performance expectations.

• Stay current on Case Management Orders, jurisdiction-specific rules, and court-imposed procedural deadlines to ensure firmwide compliance and case readiness.
• Track and enforce deadline adherence across all legal divisions, ensuring every case moves forward without delays or overlooked requirements.
• Monitor and report on key case milestones and litigation progress to firm leadership, identifying risks early and aligning team leads to resolve issues swiftly.
• Manage and mentor department leads and team managers across intake, legal support, and litigation operations.
• Identify, grow, and support emerging leaders across all legal divisions.
• Coordinate closely with HR on recruitment, benefits, and retention.
• Ensure team-wide compliance with firm policies and procedures while actively fostering an enjoyable, high-performance culture.

• Partner with the CFO, CTO, and HR to implement long-range operational improvements and systems development.
• Contribute to IT and infrastructure planning to support the firm’s goals through 2025 and beyond.
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