Conflicts Advisor

Job Description

<p><strong><u>Primary Job Purpose:</u></strong></p><p><br></p><p>The Conflicts Advisor will be responsible for conflicts clearance review and analysis for new business and lateral hires, working directly with the Conflicts Manager, as well as with lawyers and the firm’s Conflicts of Interest Committee, to identify and resolve potential ethics and business conflict issues.</p><p><br></p><p>This role’s main objective is to ensure the firm is complying with conflict checking rules and procedures when taking on new matters, including the evaluation of conflict search results, following up with lawyers and the Conflicts of Interest Committee as required, and administering and maintaining the firm’s conflicts database/system.</p><p><br></p><p><strong><u>Requirements &amp; Personal Attributes:</u></strong></p><p><br></p><ul><li>Reviewing, analysing conflict results using Intapp, One Place for Risk (Conflicts) and approving the clearance of conflicts.</li><li>Preparing communications to lawyers, clearly identifying all potential issues found in conflict reports.</li><li>Escalating complex conflict issues and liaising with the Conflicts Manager or Conflicts of Interest Committee as appropriate.</li><li>Assisting lawyers with the drafting of waiver letters.</li><li>Managing the update of blackbook entries, outside business interest, secondment arrangements in the conflict checking system.</li><li>Collating and sending out conflict’s emails (regularly during the day) to all lawyers.</li><li>Acting as a subject matter expert on conflicts procedures and policies.</li><li>Updating Conflicts of Interest policies and procedures.</li><li>Assisting with the development and maintenance of Intapp.</li><li>Participating in providing coverage for conflict checking and analysis via on-call rotation on scheduled weekends.</li><li>Contributing, as required, to projects aimed at improving compliance knowledge across the firm.</li><li>Assisting in development and implementation of training programs for lawyers.</li></ul><p><br></p><p><strong><u>Duties &amp; Responsibilities:</u></strong></p><p><strong><u><span class=”ql-cursor”> </span></u></strong></p><ul><li>Reviewing, analysing conflict results using Intapp, One Place for Risk (Conflicts) and approving the clearance of conflicts.</li><li>Preparing communications to lawyers, clearly identifying all potential issues found in conflict reports.</li><li>Escalating complex conflict issues and liaising with the Conflicts Manager or Conflicts of Interest Committee as appropriate.</li><li>Assisting lawyers with the drafting of waiver letters.</li><li>Managing the update of blackbook entries, outside business interest, secondment arrangements in the conflict checking system.</li><li>Collating and sending out conflicts emails (regularly during the day) to all lawyers.</li><li>Acting as a subject matter expert on conflicts procedures and policies.</li><li>Updating Conflicts of Interest policies and procedures.</li><li>Assisting with the development and maintenance of Intapp.</li><li>Participating in providing coverage for conflict checking and analysis via on-call rotation on scheduled weekends.</li><li>Contributing, as required, to projects aimed at improving compliance knowledge across the firm.</li><li>Assisting in development and implementation of training programs for lawyers.</li></ul>