Compliance Lawyer; Lateral Conflicts

Job Description At Norton Rose Fulbright, people thrive because of a shared commitment to quality, unity and integrity. The highly regarded law firm consistently receives recognition from Great Place to Work and Top Workplaces, two companies that specialize in assessing organizational culture. Teams collaborate across regions, value new ideas and deliver meaningful client solutions, supported by a culture that embraces ambition, development and shared success.

With more than 3,000 lawyers and 3,000 business services professionals working together across 50 offices worldwide, this global law firm provides a full range of legal services to leading corporations and financial institutions operating in key markets and sectors.

Norton Rose Fulbright is accepting expressions of interest from talented compliance lawyers to join our US Compliance team. This role will focus primarily on reviewing conflict-of-interest checks for the US firm’s prospective lateral hires and resolving the identified conflict issues in order to facilitate lateral hiring.

The US Compliance Team consists, at present, of the Deputy General Counsel, Compliance; two Assistant Deputy General Counsels, Compliance; three Compliance Counsel & Senior Managers, and a team of Compliance Lawyers, Senior Compliance Analysts, Compliance Analysts, and Client/Matter Intake Analysts. The US Compliance Team, in turn, works daily with Norton Rose Fulbright Compliance Teams in Australia, Canada, South Africa, Europe, the Middle East and Asia.

This position requires a commitment to work outside of regular business hours.

The role will report to one of the Assistant Deputy General Counsels, Compliance and will liaise with Global Compliance Lawyers, Compliance Analysts, Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP partners, and other personnel. This role may be performed remotely from any state where the firm maintains an office (Texas, California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota, Missouri, New York, and the District of Columbia). Employees must also be able to attend the office at the request of their supervisor as needed.

This position requires a commitment to work outside of regular business hours and includes a rotating on-call schedule (weekends and holidays, distributed across the team).Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

Advise partners, attorneys and the Global Compliance Team regarding the identification and resolution of potential conflicts of interests, including the relevant legal and ethical considerations and commercial concerns

Collaborate with a team of analysts to ensure consistent workflow and timely production, which includes specifically supervising the workflows and work products of at least two Compliance Analysts Interact with all levels of Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP Management to resolve potential conflict of interest issues or commercial concerns in the context of new matter intake, lateral hires, business development, and practice development projects

Drive any conflict issues to full resolution and manage a docket of between 15 and 30 outstanding conflict matters at any given time Prepare conflict reports for prospective lateral hires, identifying conflict issues with their work history and potentially portable work and proposed solution for each issue

Assist with enforcement and other issues related to Norton Rose Fulbright’s Global Practice Standards addressing stock and share dealings, external appointments, prohibitions on bribery, corruption and discrimination, economic sanctions, anti-money laundering requirements, and (to some extent) cyber security considerations

Liaise and interact with the Compliance Teams at Norton Rose Fulbright Australia, Norton Rose Fulbright Canada, Norton Rose Fulbright LLP, and Norton Rose Fulbright South Africa on a daily basis

Analyze conflict issues surrounding directorships and trusteeships in order to maintain databases

Review client relationship letters to identify contractual obligations to consider in the resolution of conflicts

Deal with questions and concerns related to our policies related to share dealing

Other duties

Please note this job description does not cover or contain all activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Skills and Experience Required Licensed to practice law in one or more States in which Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP has an office (particularly Texas, New York,…