About Mission Law
Mission Law is a tech-enabled startup legal practice with a focus on serving mission-driven founders and companies. We work with our clients as their primary outside corporate and general counsel, from incorporation through exit, including clients with valuations over $500m. Our clients have raised money from a number of different high-profile investors including 776, Animonica Brands, Bain Capital Double Impact, Data Collective, Dorm Room Fund, Gradient Ventures, Greycroft, Hustle Fund, ICONIQ, Kapor Capital, KleinerPerkins, Sovereign’s Capital, and Y Combinator, and span a wide variety of industries including consumer-packaged goods, energytech, fintech, givingtech, healthtech, legaltech, NFTs, salestech, watertech, and web3.
Our Thesis
We believe that the future of startup legal practice will shift to:
- flat fees and subscription fees over the billable hour
- leverage process and technology to dramatically improve service efficiency and delivery
- encourage better teamwork and healthier work cultures
Our mission is to:
- provide excellent service to support the impactful work of our mission-driven founders and companies, including but not limited to the unique impact and expertise we have in working with Delaware public benefit corporations, faith-driven companies, and/or companies that operate at the intersection of nonprofits, philanthropy, and traditional markets.
- create an environment for healthy relationships and joyful work for our professionals so that they can thrive and flourish.
Our Values
- healthy relationships - healthy relationships are based on core principles such as respect, vulnerability, honesty, empathy, kindness, boundaries, commitment, thoughtfulness, forgiveness, and gentleness, many of which are undervalued or deprioritized in the typical law firm environment. we actively nurture and support all of our professionals to have healthy relationships with each other, with our clients, with their work, with their families, and with their broader community
- joyful work - we design technology, project management tools, and policies around our professionals so that they can focus on the work that’s truly designed for them, aligned with their ideals, and gives them joy; a number of our initiatives reduce time entry requirements, eliminate tedious and repetitive work, create processes that help minimize mistakes, support family-friendly and travel-friendly scheduling flexibility, and provide workflow visibility to enable planning and more control
- continuous improvement - from how we document our processes in Asana and elsewhere to the continuous edits we make to our practice forms, client questionnaires,and checklists after completing deals, we have built systems and make it a core part of who we are to constantly iterate to work more quickly, eliminate mistakes, and reduce client friction
- tech savviness –like many of our technology-forward clients, we are focused on using modern systems and automations built on top of the likes of Airtable, Asana, Front, JotForm, Loom, Microsoft PowerAutomate, Miro, Zapier, and other solutions that require an eagerness and willingness to learn and master new technology and processes
- true ownership-we take pride in recruiting team members who all feel a personal connection and sense of responsibility to our clients and to each other and we are investing significant time and resources in determining how we can offer all team members, including paralegals and non-legal staff, equity-like ownership, which is rare in the legal industry
Our Current Team
- Tony Wang(founder/managing partner)
- Mindy Lu Green (associate)
- Niki Miller, and Amna Khan (paralegals)
- Jessica Bousquet (business operations manager)
- plus external finance/accounting, IT, legal specialists, and no-code/low-code developers
Overview
- serve as primary outside general and corporate counsel to venture-backed companies
- creatively lead new initiatives to build the IP and brand of the firm to create a platform for like-minded professionals within the legal industry
Key Responsibilities
- own and master traditional ECVC corporate and securities matters for our clients including incorporations, financings, spinouts, tender offers, and cap table management
- advise on a wide range of other legal matters including basic employment, tech transactions, IP strategy, and executive compensation matters
- contribute to internal knowledge management, especially Asana templates and practice forms
- help the firm adhere to its mission and core values and contribute to an environment of trust, diversity, and inclusion
- leverage tech in legal and operational processes and drive automation and continuous improvement
What We're Looking for in Candidates
- drive
- collegiality
- resourcefulness
- effectiveness
- mission-driven
- ideally 3+ years of ECVC and/or relevant general corporate law experience
Compensation and Benefits
- BigLaw salary base pay for a predictable 40 hours per week, fully remote,3 weeks(starting)protected vacation, and 1.5 weeks sick leave; pro-rated reduced schedules down to 80% also available
- no billable hour requirements and minimal time tracking responsibilities (currently only approximately a third of our revenue is from hourly billing)
- quarterly review of performance for level increases and bonuses, including faster path to meaningful partnership
- 100% medical, dental, vision, life for you and your dependents
- 401k safe harbor basic matching
- $50/mo automatic wifi/cellplan reimbursement+ 100% reimbursement of all equipment
- weekly remote lunches