Build and Lead a New Practice Area From the Ground Up
Shane Smith Law is launching an entirely new practice area dedicated to helping homeowners facing foreclosure, mortgage servicing problems, and other serious challenges involving their homes.
We’re looking for an experienced attorney who doesn’t just want another attorney position.
We’re looking for someone who wants to build something.
This attorney will have the opportunity to help create and lead our Homeowner Advocacy Division from the ground up, backed by the resources, marketing capabilities, technology, staff, and infrastructure of an established and growing law firm.
If you have significant experience with foreclosures, mortgage servicing, loss mitigation, bankruptcy, creditor/debtor law, or real estate litigation—and you’re interested in becoming the subject-matter leader of a growing practice—we want to talk with you.
The Opportunity
You’ll be joining us at the beginning.
Rather than stepping into someone else’s established practice, you’ll help us determine how this division operates, including but not limited to:
- Developing the legal strategy and service offerings
- Establishing case evaluation and acceptance criteria
- Creating workflows, procedures, and best practices
- Helping develop document templates, pleadings, and litigation strategies
- Advising on staffing and support needs
- Training attorneys and support staff as the division grows
- Working with firm leadership to identify opportunities for expansion
- Helping establish the firm’s reputation in homeowner advocacy
- Ultimately helping build a team and practice around your expertise
Our goal is to build a significant homeowner advocacy practice, not simply add another service to our website.
What the Practice Will Handle
The division will assist homeowners dealing with matters such as:
- Foreclosure prevention and foreclosure defense
- Wrongful foreclosure and foreclosure litigation
- Mortgage servicing disputes
- Loan modifications
- Loss mitigation
- Forbearance agreements
- Repayment plans
- Partial claims and mortgage assistance programs
- Short sales
- Deeds in lieu of foreclosure
- Mortgage and loan document review
- Lender and mortgage servicer negotiations
- Consumer protection claims involving mortgage servicing
- Real estate litigation involving distressed homeowners
- Evaluating bankruptcy or other debt-relief options when appropriate
Who We’re Looking For
We are particularly interested in attorneys with experience in one or more of the following:
Foreclosure Defense | Mortgage Litigation | Mortgage Servicing | Creditor/Debtor Law | Consumer Law | Real Estate Litigation | Bankruptcy | Loss Mitigation
You do not necessarily need to currently represent homeowners.
Attorneys who currently or previously represented banks, lenders, mortgage servicers, creditors, investors, or foreclosure firms are strongly encouraged to apply.
Your knowledge of how lenders and servicers evaluate files, process foreclosures, handle loss mitigation, and approach litigation could be extremely valuable in building a sophisticated homeowner advocacy practice.
The Person We’re Looking For
The ideal candidate is an experienced attorney who:
- Understands the foreclosure process and mortgage servicing industry
- Can identify potential defenses, claims, and resolution strategies
- Understands loss mitigation and alternatives to foreclosure
- Has strong negotiation and litigation skills
- Can analyze complicated mortgage, title, and real estate issues
- Is comfortable making strategic decisions
- Enjoys solving difficult problems
- Can communicate complicated legal issues clearly to clients
- Has the leadership ability to eventually manage attorneys and staff
- Has an entrepreneurial mindset and enjoys creating and improving systems
Most importantly, we’re looking for someone who is excited about the opportunity to take ownership of a practice area and help build it.
Why This Opportunity Is Different
Most attorney positions ask you to step into an existing system and handle the files you’re assigned. This isn’t that position.
We’re providing the platform and resources to build a new division. We’re looking for the attorney who can provide the legal expertise and leadership to help us build it correctly.
You’ll have the opportunity to influence:
How we practice.
What cases we accept.
How we serve our clients.
How we build the team.
And ultimately, how large this practice becomes.
As the division grows, we expect this position to grow with it.
For the right attorney, this could become a significant long-term leadership opportunity within the firm.
What We Bring to the Table
You won’t be building this alone.
You’ll have access to the resources of an established law firm, including:
- Existing operational infrastructure
- Marketing and client-acquisition capabilities
- Intake and client-service resources
- Technology and case-management systems
- Administrative and operational support
- Recruiting and staffing resources
- Firm leadership committed to investing in the growth of the division
You bring the subject-matter expertise. We’ll bring the resources to help build the practice around it.
Qualifications
- J.D. from an accredited law school
- Active and in good standing with the applicable State Bar
- Meaningful experience involving foreclosure, mortgage servicing, creditor/debtor law, bankruptcy, real estate litigation, consumer financial law, or a closely related field
- Strong legal research, writing, negotiation, and analytical skills
- Litigation experience preferred
- Leadership or management experience is a plus, but not required
- Ability and desire to help develop a practice area from its earliest stages
Compensation
We understand that the attorney capable of helping us build this practice may already have a successful career.
Compensation will be competitive and commensurate with experience, expertise, and the leadership responsibilities of the position.
For an exceptional candidate, we’re interested in creating a compensation structure that rewards not only individual performance but also the successful growth of the division.
Interested?
If you’ve spent your career dealing with foreclosures, mortgages, banks, lenders, servicers, creditors, loss mitigation, bankruptcy, or distressed real estate and you’ve ever thought:
“I know how this business works. I could build a better practice.”
We’d like to talk with you.
This is an opportunity to take your experience and use it to help build a homeowner advocacy practice from the ground up—with the resources of an established law firm behind you.
Apply confidentially with your resume. All inquiries will be handled discreetly.
Shane Smith Law is an Equal Opportunity employer and certified Patriotic Employer recognized by the Office of the Secretary of Defense Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve. EOE M/F/Disabled/Vet
Pay: From $100,000.00 per year
License/Certification:
- FL Bar License (Required)
Location:
- Florida (Required)
Work Location: Remote
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