Conflicts & Ethics Attorney

Overview

• The role supports the Firm’s risk management and professional responsibility functions by analyzing complex conflicts of interest issues, advising lawyers, and facilitating the clearance of new clients and matters across its global platform.
• Responsibilities include analyzing complex, high-risk, and novel conflicts arising from proposed new client engagements, matters, attorney mobility, and strategic business initiatives, then recommending appropriate resolution strategies.
• Evaluates proposed representations involving concurrent, former client, positional, issue, and business conflicts, as well as other matters presenting heightened legal, ethical, or reputational risk.
• Drafts, reviews, and negotiates conflict waivers, engagement letter provisions, consent requests, and other conflicts-related documentation.
• Advises on the implementation of ethical screens and risk mitigation measures, and reviews/advises on conflicts-related provisions in outside counsel guidelines and client-imposed requirements.
• Serves as a primary escalation resource for complex conflicts and intake matters, providing legal analysis, guidance, and exercising sound legal and business judgment.
• Partners with the Professional Responsibility Department and Firm leadership to identify and address conflicts, ethics, and risk management issues, and participates in departmental initiatives, policy development, process improvements, and technology enhancements.
• Provides training, mentoring, and guidance to members of the Conflicts and New Business Intake team, while developing and maintaining subject matter expertise on conflicts, professional responsibility, and emerging legal developments affecting law firm risk management.
• Requires after-hours conflicts and new business intake support on a rotating basis.
• Candidates must have demonstrated knowledge of conflicts of interest principles and applicable rules of professional responsibility, alongside a strong aptitude for learning new technologies relevant to conflicts and intake systems.