Current Openings

You have great clients and great work. You want to stay at the top of your game, but you’re ready to make a change. You want more control. You want more freedom to manage your practice. You want better work-life balance. You want less bureaucracy. VLP may be the right place for you.

We are a group of experienced lawyers from top-tier law schools, law firms and corporations. We pioneered a better alternative to traditional law firms and corporations and are happy to share it with like-minded legal talent. We eliminate much of the traditional firm overhead and share those savings with our clients, while maintaining similar levels of profitability. We provide big law expertise and service at a better rate, and we do it all in an environment that’s collegial and, yes, fun.

"At VLP I work when, where and how much my clients need me. Personally, I bill as many hours as I did when I was at a traditional firm, but I have much more flexibility and "free" time - not to mention no lost commuting time."

- Char B. Pagar


Take Control of Your Practice

VLP allows you to take control of your legal career. Where and when you work is entirely up to you and your clients. Most of us work from home or at our clients’ offices, allowing us to better coordinate work and personal commitments. We believe this flexibility allows us to be better lawyers — more productive, more effective, and more satisfied with our professional and personal lives.

Build Your Practice

VLP permits partners to grow their practices in multiple, creative ways, as opposed to the linear track at traditional transactional firms. Unlike traditional firms which inexorably demand ever increasing billings by partners to support never ending overhead expenses, VLP is flexible, not insisting or relying on ever increasing books of business and billing rates. Some VLP partners work with teams of lawyers, while others generally do not. Some VLP lawyers work with start-up companies, while others work with national banks or Fortune 500 companies. Clients, transactions and legal fees may be small or large. At VLP, one size does not fit all. At VLP, there are multiple paths to success and career fulfillment.

"Since joining VLP, I’ve increased the size of my practice by 5 times! My clients regularly tell me how much they appreciate the personalized attention and top-quality legal advice they receive from our team, as well as the fact that we consistently close their transactions on-time and within budget. I love that VLP’s platform allows me to deliver the best legal service to my clients, while maintaining flexibility in my work/life balance, and I am convinced that the kind of growth I’ve been able to achieve at VLP would have been much more difficult if I had chosen to stay at a AmLaw 100 firm."

- Denise G. Zack


"With VLP I have the perfect balance of traditional firm support without the overhead of big law that is not necessary for my practice. I can staff my transactions with colleagues who are experts in a variety of transactional areas. Our IT infrastructure is at least as robust and current as the largest traditional firms, and our administrative staff is experienced and efficient, making the back office part of my practice seamless and easy."

- David Goldenberg


Law Firm Support

Just because you are not part of a brick and mortar firm doesn’t mean you cannot have traditional law firm support. VLP is a full-fledged law firm with the capability to seamlessly handle your IT and administrative needs (including legal conflicts, human resources, and payroll) so that you can focus on your clients instead of the unbillable chores that cut into a small firm lawyer’s or solo practitioner’s time and productivity. Like traditional firms, VLP handles all billing and supports all collection efforts. We provide an IT infrastructure that links you to the rest of the firm and stores all documents and confidential information securely – and it’s backed by a world-class tech team. In addition, we are a collegial group of lawyers who work closely and collaboratively on client and firm matters. Often many lawyers from different specialties, including, for example, mergers and acquisitions, commercial debt, intellectual property and tax lawyers, will work as a team on a particular matter, as they would at any traditional firm. We keep current on legal issues through our practice group meetings, talk about current events on our virtual watercooler, meet for lunch, go out after work, and raise money for charity. We also make the effort to see each other face to face. Multiple times a year our lawyers from across the country travel to meet in person at firmwide retreats.

Why VLP

VLP’s model is simple. We can charge less, and keep more for ourselves, because we don’t ask our clients to subsidize junior lawyer training and bloated overhead costs. We have found that our clients are as busy as we are, and perfectly comfortable relying on teleconferences and video conferences, making large legal offices unnecessary. By removing junior associates and real estate from the traditional law firm model, VLP is reinventing the way law firms do business, and in the process, helping quality lawyers rediscover the joy in practicing.

VLP is looking for attorneys with excellent academic credentials, outstanding professional experience and a minimum of six years of practice with an AmLaw 100 law firm, successful solo or boutique practice, and/or a major corporation.

If you feel that you meet our criteria and are interested in learning more, we’d love to hear from you. Please send an email with your resume attached to JoinUs@VLPLawGroup.com.

"VLP is the ideal platform for my practice. I have all the benefits of a large firm -- terrific partners, top notch IT, seamless back office and technical support -- without the high overhead costs and pressure to charge more than I want to. I still meet with clients frequently, usually over lunch or dinner. If anything, I have more time for them now, because I'm more efficient. They've been thrilled with the results, and so have I."

- Frank A. Daniele