Conflicts Analyst

Job Description

Conflicts Analyst (Legal) | Jobot

The Tone:
This is a full-time, remote role at a growing, national law firm. Our client is a reputable firm that prides itself on providing outstanding service to their clients. This role is crucial for maintaining the firm’s ethical standards and facilitating new business by ensuring compliance with professional responsibility and legal ethics rules pertaining to conflicts. The firm offers a collaborative team environment, outstanding leadership, and focuses on professional development and growth opportunities, alongside excellent work/life balance.

The TL;DR
• Role: Early Career
• Type: Full-time
• Location: Remote (must reside in Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Chicago, Dayton, Denver, Detroit, Indianapolis, Minneapolis)
• Pay: $25–$37 hourly
• Team: Collaborates with Conflicts Counsel, General Counsel, firm attorneys, and the conflicts team.
• Mission: Owns the identification and resolution of potential conflicts of interest for new business and lateral matters to ensure ethical compliance.
• Tech Stack: Intapp

What You’ll Actually Do
• Conflicts Search: Define effective search strategies and conduct conflicts searches for new business and potential lateral matters using the firm’s internal electronic database.
• Analysis & Communication: Analyze, articulate, and communicate search results to firm attorneys, including identifying and suggesting resolutions for potential conflicts.
• Corporate Research: Perform comprehensive corporate research using online databases to accurately determine corporate affiliations and relationships.
• Resolution & Documentation: Work collaboratively with Conflicts Counsel, General Counsel, and firm attorneys to aid in conflicts resolution and draft engagement letters, conflict waivers, and ethical screen memorandums for review.
• Database Management: Assist in the large-scale review, reconciliation, and clean-up of the firm’s existing client/matter information and conflicts database.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Bachelor’s Degree required, with a working knowledge of professional responsibility and legal ethics rules pertaining to conflicts.
• Experience: 1+ years of experience working in a conflicts department in a mid- to large-sized law firm.
• Skills: Ability to efficiently manage multiple tasks and projects while providing accurate work product, strong problem-solving and time management skills, acute attention to detail, and excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills.
• Bonus: Intapp experience strongly preferred.