Serve as local co-counsel

What local co-counsel does

Oathmark customers who purchase an Attorney-Led Package have their legal-services engagement delivered by an independent, separately-engaged law firm — not by Oathmark. That firm signs one engagement letter with the customer, and where the firm needs bar admission in the customer's jurisdiction, it engages you as local co-counsel of record on the matter under a separate co-counsel agreement. You are named to the client in the engagement letter for that matter, work under the partner firm's supervision on jurisdiction-specific issues, and share the fee in accordance with MRPC 1.5(e).

The identity of the partner firm and full co-counsel agreement terms are shared with candidates after initial review; they are not published publicly on this site.

Two package types today:

• Industry Policy Kit ($2,000 flat). Software generates four draft AI-governance policies from the customer's intake; local co-counsel reviews and revises them against the customer's state law and professional-responsibility rules, then signs off. ~3–5 hours per matter. Turnaround: 10 business days.
• Attorney Governance Review ($10,000 flat). Full engagement: attorney reviews the customer's AI use, existing policies, and vendor stack; produces an attorney-signed engagement report; and conducts a live consultation. ~15–25 hours per matter. Turnaround: 20 business days.

You accept, decline, or shape the scope of any specific matter based on your own professional judgment. Oathmark provides intake data and starter templates; you deliver work product on your letterhead under your bar number.

Compensation

Under ABA MRPC 5.4, non-lawyers may not share legal fees with lawyers. Oathmark's compliance model:

• Customer pays Oathmark the total package price at checkout via Stripe.
• Oathmark retains a fixed, non-contingent platform-and-technology fee for hosting, intake, portal access, payment processing, and administrative coordination.
• The legal-fee balance is remitted in full to local co-counsel for the legal services delivered under local co-counsel's separate engagement letter with the customer.
• Fee flow: Oathmark collects the total from the customer, remits the platform-fee portion to itself for technology, hosting, and administrative coordination, and remits the legal-fee portion to the partner firm. The partner firm then shares that legal fee with local co-counsel under MRPC 1.5(e) in proportion to work performed or on a joint-responsibility basis. Current legal-fee pool: $1,500 on the Policy Kit and $9,000 on the Attorney Governance Review. Local co-counsel split with the partner firm is negotiated per-jurisdiction and confirmed in your co-counsel agreement before any matter is referred to you.

Payment terms and specific dollar figures are confirmed in the Counsel Engagement Agreement before you commit to any matter.

Qualifications

• Active, unrestricted admission in at least one US state. No suspensions or public discipline in the last 5 years.
• Malpractice insurance at levels acceptable to Oathmark. Specific minimums confirmed in the Engagement Agreement.
• Prior AI, privacy, tech-transactions, or professional-responsibility experience. Doesn't have to be as an "AI specialist" — deep-technology or privacy practices whose work touches client AI use count.
• Willing to sign the Counsel Engagement Agreement (a business agreement between you and Oathmark covering platform use and the technology-fee structure). Every customer engagement is separately governed by an engagement letter between you and that customer.
• Comfort with software workflows. You'll use the Oathmark portal for intake review and referral acknowledgment.

Public directory visibility is optional and off by default. See the FAQ below.

Ethics posture

This arrangement is designed for compliance with the ABA Model Rules and state analogs:

• MRPC 5.4(a) (no fee-sharing). Oathmark's technology fee is separately-priced, fixed, non-contingent, and not calculated as a share of your legal fees.
• MRPC 5.4(c) (no non-lawyer control). Oathmark does not direct, control, or supervise your professional judgment on any matter.
• MRPC 5.5 (no UPL). Every Attorney-Led Package is server-side gated so a customer can only reach checkout if an admitted attorney is available to deliver in that state.
• MRPC 7.2(b) (no referral compensation). Oathmark does not pay you for accepting referrals, and you do not pay Oathmark for referrals.

State-specific variants (NY, DC, CA) are addressed by an Exhibit A rider to the Engagement Agreement.

Apply

Fill out the form below. We review applications within 5 business days and follow up by email. If we're interested, next step is a 30-minute video call to align on how the platform works and whether the fit is right.

Full name * Email *

Phone Primary state of admission * — Select — Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas Colorado Connecticut Delaware District of Columbia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming

All state bar admissions (comma-separated postal codes) * Include your primary state. If you're only admitted in one state, just enter that one.

Firm / practice name Firm website

City Years practicing * Minimum 3 years for the Counsel Network bench.

Malpractice carrier — Select carrier — ALPS AttorneyPro (ISBA Mutual) Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance CNA (Continental Casualty) Great American Insurance Group Hanover Insurance Group HUB International (broker) ISBA Mutual Insurance Liberty Insurance Underwriters Markel Minnesota Lawyers Mutual (MLM) MPL Corp NAS Insurance PhiladelphiaInsurance / Tokio Marine HCC Sompo International Swiss Re Corporate Solutions The Bar Plan The Hartford (Hartford Financial) Travelers USI Affinity (broker) Zurich North America Other (specify) Specify carrier *

Per-claim limit (USD) Aggregate limit (USD)

LinkedIn URL Resume URL (Dropbox, Google Drive, personal site, etc.) Briefly describe your AI, privacy, tech-transactions, or professional-responsibility experience Why Oathmark? I authorize the partner firm to name me to a specific customer in its engagement letter for that customer's matter, at the moment of representation. This does not authorize any public marketing listing; local co-counsel are not customer-facing on Oathmark's site. * I acknowledge that before accepting any matter referral through Oathmark, I will run a conflict check against my current and former clients under my firm’s existing conflict-check procedures, and I will decline any matter that presents a conflict I cannot cure.

Submit application

Submitting this form is not an offer of employment, of-counsel, or partnership. It is an application to Oathmark's local co-counsel referral network. If shortlisted, Oathmark will invite you to a video call. If aligned after the call, Oathmark will send the Counsel Engagement Agreement for review and signature; no legal work begins under any Oathmark-referred matter until you have signed a separate engagement letter with the specific customer.

FAQ

Is this employment or of-counsel?

Neither. You are independently practicing law under your own firm; Oathmark is a technology platform connecting customers with independent attorneys. You are free to represent any client outside the Oathmark platform, without restriction.

Whose malpractice insurance covers the work?

Yours. Every customer engagement is directly between you and the customer under your own engagement letter. Oathmark is not a party to that engagement.

Can Oathmark tell me what to include in a policy or advisory report?

No. Oathmark provides intake data and starter templates; the substantive legal content is yours. This is required by ABA MRPC 5.4(c), which prohibits non-lawyer control of professional judgment.

Volume expectations?

Baseline assumptions for a mid-population state, in year one: 5–20 Policy Kits and 1–5 Attorney Governance Reviews. Actual volume depends on Oathmark's outbound marketing in your state and is not guaranteed. States where the partner firm holds direct admission see lower expected volume for supplemental bench members — those matters route to the partner firm first, and you receive only overflow, conflicts, or specialization-driven referrals.

What jurisdictions is the partner firm looking for?

All US states. Bench needs are ranked by demand — states with higher AI-governance adoption and more independent-firm activity see more matter volume. States where the partner firm holds direct admission see lower expected volume, but overflow and conflicts still route bench applications for supplemental capacity.

Will my name appear on Oathmark's public marketing pages?

No. Local co-counsel are not customer-facing on this site. You are named to a specific customer only in the partner firm's engagement letter for that customer's matter, at the moment of representation. This is consistent with ABA MRPC 7.1 (communications about attorney services).

What if I decline a specific referral?

No penalty. Oathmark refers to the next local co-counsel in the state. You can also mark yourself unavailable in the portal (vacation, capacity) and Oathmark routes around you automatically.

Non-exclusive?

Yes. You can be local co-counsel for Oathmark and also work with any other referral source, platform, or direct-client channel.

What if a customer is unhappy with my work?

Complaints, dispute resolution, and refunds of the legal-fee portion are governed by your engagement letter with the customer. If a complaint is about the software or platform (e.g., incomplete intake), Oathmark handles it. Oathmark reasonably cooperates in either direction.

Termination?

Either party may terminate the Counsel Engagement Agreement on 30 days' written notice, without cause. Existing matters where you already signed a customer engagement letter continue under that engagement letter — Oathmark is not a party to that decision.

Questions before applying?

Email legal@oathmark.ai. The partner firm's identity and full co-counsel agreement terms are shared after initial application review.