Conflicts Attorney

Job title: Conflicts Attorney

About the Role WilmerHale is seeking a Conflicts Attorney responsible for providing contextual analysis and critical assessment of new business intake matters with conflicts clearance responsibilities; providing direction, professional development, training, and review of work product of conflicts team. The role also includes guiding department administrative objectives and serving as a resource for Outside Counsel Guidelines, Requests for Proposals, lateral conflicts checks, and ethical screens; and actively participating in decisions related to conflicts resolution, business clearance and related ethics matters.

What You'll Do

• Provide contextual analysis and critical assessment of new business intake reports, lateral hire conflicts checks, Requests for Proposals, Outside Counsel Guidelines, and other conflicts materials, together with corresponding conflicts database hits, for completeness, accuracy, and adherence to firm procedures; refine or supplement packages as needed.
• Support the department's intake of and response to Outside Counsel Guidelines; draft, provide or finalize accurate and deadline-driven responses in conjunction with other stakeholders and subject matter experts; work with attorneys to negotiate specific terms as needed; ensure accurate records and tracking systems are maintained, and provide updates on developments that could affect department or Firm and make recommendations regarding Outside Counsel Guidelines work procedures or specific situations.
• The Conflicts Attorney guides the Conflicts Teams’ responses or directly handles the responses to the more complex requests; provides ongoing feedback and professional development to help the team gain the expertise to handle certain categories of Info Searches independently (and with timely periodic reviews by Conflicts Attorneys).
• Communicate and disseminate conflicts of interest information verbally or in writing to the BIAC; communicate with all levels of firm personnel on a variety of conflicts of interest issues and procedures; monitor, evaluate, and effectively manage clearance e-mail dialogue for the BIAC as needed.
• Provide concise, timely, and accurate communication of clearance-related information and developments.