Business Engagement Coordinator; KCM

Position: Business Engagement Coordinator (KCM)
Location: Kansas City

Summary

The Business Engagement Coordinator is responsible for producing a variety of work product under the umbrella of Information Governance. Work product includes, but is not limited to, the production of conflicts reports associated with new business, attorney and staff recruiting and data governance of the related parties' database. The Coordinator must be able to work effectively with a variety of law firm members, including numerous lawyers, paralegals, and staff members.

In all situations, it is expected that the Coordinator will maintain the highest levels of respect, confidentiality and professionalism in the execution of the responsibilities.

This position reports to the Business Engagement Supervisor / Manager.

Please submit your application by no later than 45 days following the posted date. Applications received after this date may not be considered.

Required Education & Experience

• College Degree or equivalent work experience.
• 3-4 years law firm or conflicts management experience.
• Strong computer skills required.

Preferred Education & Experience

• Law Firm experience preferred.

Essential Functions

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Conflicts Management (80%)
  • Collaborates with firm attorneys, legal administrative assistants, conflicts counsel and administrative support personnel to define the scope of new business requests. Including new and existing clients, supplemental, re-opening, board membership, marketing and preliminary conflict search requests.
  • Analyze information within requests from attorneys and administrative support personnel to identify what data needs a conflicts search and determine how to extract information from the related parties' database to produce the most accurate result set based on knowledge of data.
  • Analyzes final conflicts reports by making key decisions as to what parties may be producing false positives to assist the conflicts attorneys in conflicts clearance. Clears the false positives to provide accurate reporting.
• Business Intake and Engagement (15%)
  • Responsible for confirming that engagement letters attached to business accurately reflects the client as defined by the original conflicts search. Coordinates with attorneys and LAAs to gain appropriate documentation before opening new business.
  • Communicates with attorneys, legal administrative assistants and administrative support personnel when presented with questions regarding conflicts, business intake procedures and engagement.
  • Responsible for handling a variety of requests received through ticketing queue.
• General and Administrative (5%)
  • Performs other duties as assigned.

Competencies

• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Self-motivated with excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Highly professional with a strong customer service orientation, commitment to meeting deadlines, and ability to multitask in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.
• Strong professional, independent thinking skills with strength in problem solving and the ability to offer constructive opinions and creative solutions.
• A team player who motivates and educates other team members.
• Regular and predictable attendance is an essential function of the position.

Supervisory Responsibility

This position has no supervisory responsibilities.

Travel

No travel is expected for this position.

Work Environment & Physical Demands

This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines. While performing the responsibilities of the position, these work environment characteristics are representative of the environment the person in this position will encounter. While performing the duties of this job, the employee will work in a professional, fast paced office environment that may require additional hours to complete work.

These physical demands are representative of the physical requirements necessary for an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the position. If an employee is unable to perform the essential functions of…