Title: Group Director, Legal Operations
Reports to: President / Vice President of Legal Operations
Direct reports: Managing Lawyers and, through them, their attorney teams
Location: San Antonio, Texas — with regular travel to Corpus Christi, Austin, Houston, and Dallas
Compensation: $350,000 – $450,000 annually, depending on experience, plus
discretionary performance bonus and full benefits
Status: Full-time, exempt, executive
Position SummaryThe Group Director is a senior, trial-credentialed leader who oversees a group of Managing Lawyers and is accountable for the trial readiness, case progression, performance, and development of every attorney beneath them.
This is a hands-on operating role, not an advisory one. The Group Director exists to add real leadership capacity at the layer between executive legal operations and the managing-lawyer bench — closing the coverage gap that currently allows junior attorneys to reach trial without genuine, early, individual preparation.
Three non-negotiables define this position:
- Extend leadership coverage across a group of Managing Lawyers that existing executive leadership cannot personally cover.
- Own individual 60- and 90-day pre-trial readiness meetings as separate, standalone sessions — never merged into routine docket review and never deferred until days before trial.
- Guarantee the leadership meeting cadence happens — scheduled, attended, documented, and followed up, without exception.
Core Responsibilities:
1. Trial Readiness — 60/90-Day Pre-Trial DisciplineThis is the highest priority of the role.
- Personally conduct or directly supervise individual, standalone 90-day and 60-day pre-trial readiness meetings on every case set for trial within the group.
- Keep these meetings structurally separate from routine manager docket meetings. Pre-trial preparation is not a line item inside a multi-case docket review and will not be treated as one.
- Enforce a hard rule that no case reaches meaningful trial preparation seven days out. Preparation begins at 90 days.
- Provide direct, substantive review for first- and second-year attorneys, who cannot be assumed to run a thorough pre-trial analysis on their own. Verify the work; do not accept a manager's assumption that it was done.
- Escalate any case that is not trial-ready at the 60-day gate, with a written remediation plan.
- Directly manage a group of Managing Lawyers: set expectations, run one-on-ones, review scorecards, and hold them to measurable standards.
- Own the leadership meeting cadence for the group and guarantee it runs. Missed leadership meetings are a performance failure of this role.
- Audit manager performance against reports and dashboards: productivity, insurance calls, demands, late breakdowns, client complaints, past-due calls, and case progression.
- Coach managers who are underperforming; recommend performance plans, reassignment, or removal where coaching does not work.
- Build and protect the development path for junior attorneys — mentoring, second-chairing, structured feedback, and real trial exposure.
- Partner with the firm's attorney-development function on onboarding, 12-month progression, and time-to-productivity.
- Own retention outcomes inside the group. Turnover in the group is this role's number.
- Conduct stay interviews and surface the real reasons attorneys leave before they leave.
- Drive inventory health, case velocity, demand timeliness, and file quality across the group.
- Enforce firm litigation standards and trial-first culture — every case worked as if it is going to trial.
- Balance case counts so junior attorneys carry a workload they can execute at standard.
- Serve as an extension of executive legal operations, capable of representing leadership in the group's day-to-day and stepping into higher-level coverage when needed.
- Provide leadership with honest, unfiltered reporting on what is happening at the manager and attorney level.
- Develop successors — identify and grow Managing Lawyers who can become deputies or directors themselves.
- J.D. and active license in good standing with the State Bar of Texas, or immediate eligibility for Texas admission.
- 10+ years of plaintiff personal injury litigation experience, with substantial first-chair trial work.
- Meaningful jury trial history — a documented record of verdicts. A trial-history summary is required at application.
- Proven experience managing lawyers who manage lawyers: supervising a multi-team group, not just a single docket or pod.
- Demonstrated ability to run pre-trial readiness discipline at volume across a large docket.
- Track record of improving attorney retention, performance, and case outcomes with measurable results.
- Comfort operating in a metric-driven, dashboard-accountable environment.
- Based in or willing to relocate to San Antonio, with willingness to travel to Texas offices regularly.
- Experience in a high-volume plaintiff personal injury platform.
- Experience building or running attorney training, mentorship, or academy programs.
- Background scaling attorney headcount without degrading case quality.
- Bilingual English/Spanish.
- Paid vacation, holidays, and leave
- 401(k) with 4% match (immediate vesting)
- 80% employer-paid medical
- Dental, vision, and supplemental insurance
- Relocation assistance
- Bar dues paid (first 3 years)
- Career advancement and leadership opportunities
- Gym membership and Employee Recognition Programs
The position is full-time and exempt. Final offer within the band will be determined by trial record, prior span of control, and demonstrated results in attorney performance and retention.
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Skills Required
- J.D. and active license in good standing with the State Bar of Texas or immediate eligibility for Texas admission
- 10+ years of plaintiff personal injury litigation experience with substantial first‑chair trial work
- Meaningful jury trial history with documented record of verdicts (trial‑history summary required at application)
- Proven experience managing lawyers who manage lawyers (supervising a multi‑team group)
- Demonstrated ability to run pre‑trial readiness discipline at volume across a large docket
- Track record of improving attorney retention, performance, and case outcomes with measurable results
- Comfort operating in a metric‑driven, dashboard‑accountable environment
- Based in or willing to relocate to San Antonio, Texas, with willingness to travel regularly to other Texas offices
- Experience in a high‑volume plaintiff personal injury platform
- Experience building or running attorney training, mentorship, or academy programs
- Background scaling attorney headcount without degrading case quality
- Bilingual English/Spanish
What We Do
Thomas J. Henry Injury Attorneys is a personal injury law firm with offices in Corpus Christi, San Antonio, Austin, Dallas & Houston, TX representing accident victims nationwide. Our priority is to provide our clients with the best legal representation. Our experienced trial attorneys are committed to defending your rights in personal injury matters including defective products, trucking accidents, maritime accidents, and other catastrophic accidents. Our mission is to fight and win for the injured through tireless preparation, aggressive litigation, and unmatched client care. We protect the rights of the injured with exceptional legal skill, trial-ready strategy, and an unwavering commitment to delivering the care, attention, and results our clients deserve.
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