Assistant Director​/Director– Immigration Services

Position: Assistant Director / Director– Immigration Services

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. .

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…