Associate Attorney (Partnership Track)

Johnson & Nicholson, PLLC d/b/a JN Abogados

Charlotte, North Carolina | Full-Time

Salary: $115,000–$145,000 (depending on experience) + Performance Bonus + Comprehensive Benefits

Build Your Career. Help Build Our Firm.

We’re not looking to hire an employee—we’re looking to develop a future partner.

Johnson & Nicholson, PLLC d/b/a JN Abogados is an established, award-winning law firm dedicated to serving immigrant families. We are seeking an exceptional litigation attorney with outstanding courtroom skills, a passion for advocacy, and the ambition to help build one of the premier law firms serving immigrant communities in the United States.

Whether your experience comes from a Public Defender’s Office, criminal defense, prosecution, legal aid, or civil litigation, if you are an exceptional advocate, we can teach you immigration law.

This is a genuine partnership-track opportunity for someone who wants to become a leader, help expand our practice, and eventually help establish and manage future office locations.

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About Our Firm

For approximately 16 years, Johnson & Nicholson, PLLC has proudly served immigrant families with excellence, compassion, and unwavering advocacy.

As our clients’ needs have evolved, so has our firm.

Today, we are more than an immigration law firm—we are a law firm for immigrants.

We recognize that immigrant families often face legal challenges that extend beyond immigration status alone. Our mission is to provide comprehensive legal representation that protects our clients, their families, and their futures.

While immigration litigation remains the cornerstone of our practice, we have expanded to serve immigrant families in related practice areas, including crimmigration and family law. Our goal is simple: to be the trusted law firm our clients can turn to throughout every stage of their lives in the United States.

Since our founding, we have represented approximately 17,000–18,000 individuals through consultations, Immigration Court litigation, removal defense, humanitarian cases, family-based immigration, adjustment of status, naturalization, and appellate litigation.

Our attorneys have helped clients obtain thousands of successful immigration outcomes, including lawful permanent residence, U.S. citizenship, asylum, humanitarian protection, waivers, and relief from removal.

Our litigation extends beyond the trial level. Our firm has participated in multiple published appellate decisions, including matters before the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, and we continue to litigate significant cases that help shape immigration law.

Our attorneys have been recognized by some of the legal profession’s most respected organizations, including:

Best Lawyers in America®

Martindale-Hubbell®

Super Lawyers®

North Carolina Business Legal Elite

The Charlotte Observer’s Best of the Best

These honors reflect our commitment to excellence, integrity, and exceptional advocacy.

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Why This Work Matters

Every day we have the privilege of helping people move beyond fear, uncertainty, and hardship toward stability, opportunity, and hope.

Many of our clients arrive at our office during the most difficult moments of their lives. Guiding them through the legal system, protecting their rights, reuniting families, and helping them build a better future is one of the greatest privileges of practicing law.

Helping someone achieve the American dream is more than our profession—it is our purpose.

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Our Crimmigration Practice

One of the fastest-growing areas of our firm is the intersection of criminal and immigration law.

Attorneys with criminal defense, prosecution, or public defender experience possess courtroom skills that translate exceptionally well into Immigration Court and crimmigration practice.

We are seeking an attorney who wants to become an outstanding Immigration Court advocate while also developing expertise in advising clients regarding the immigration consequences of criminal charges, plea negotiations, convictions, and sentencing.

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Responsibilities

Represent clients before the Immigration Court.

Litigate asylum, cancellation of removal, waivers, bond hearings, and other immigration matters.

Analyze the immigration consequences of criminal charges and convictions.

Draft motions, briefs, legal memoranda, and appellate filings.

Conduct hearings, examine witnesses, and present persuasive legal arguments.

Work closely with clients throughout every stage of representation.

Collaborate with attorneys, paralegals, and support staff to provide exceptional client service.

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Qualifications

Licensed attorney in any U.S. jurisdiction.

Strong litigation and courtroom advocacy skills.

Former Public Defender, criminal defense attorney, prosecutor, or experienced litigator strongly preferred.

Excellent legal writing, research, and oral advocacy skills.

High ethical standards, professionalism, compassion, and sound judgment.

A desire to learn immigration law and build a long-term career.

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Compensation & Benefits

Salary of $115,000–$130,000, depending on experience.

Performance-based bonus program.

Health insurance.

Paid bar dues.

Paid CLEs and AILA membership.

Paid vacation and holidays.

Structured mentorship and immigration litigation training.

Hybrid flexibility after successful onboarding.

Genuine partnership-track opportunity.

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Partnership Track

This is not simply another Associate Attorney position.

We are investing in someone who wants to become a future leader of our firm.

As JN Abogados continues to grow, successful attorneys will have opportunities to:

Become a partner.

Develop specialized practice areas.

Mentor junior attorneys.

Build and lead legal teams.

Help establish and manage future office locations.

Expand the JN Abogados brand into new communities.

We are looking for someone who wants to build a career—not just find a job.

If you are an exceptional litigator who believes in serving immigrant communities, wants meaningful courtroom experience, and is excited by the opportunity to help build one of the nation’s premier law firms for immigrants, we would love to hear from you.

How to Apply

Please submit your resume, a writing sample, and a brief cover letter to:

vp@turbostaffing.com

Please keep in mind that any applications submitted without any of the three required documents listed above, will not be considered for this position.

Join JN Abogados and help shape the future of legal advocacy for immigrant families.

JN Abogados de Inmigración

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