Compliance (Conflicts) Lawyer

About the role

Norton Rose Fulbright is seeking an experienced lawyer with conflict review experience to join our US Compliance team. The Compliance (Conflicts) Lawyer directly protects the firm by ensuring ethical, regulatory, and commercial risks are identified and mitigated before new matters, lateral hires, or business initiatives proceed.

Responsibilities

• Advises partners, lawyers, 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.
• Collaborates 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.
• Interacts 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.
• Drives any conflict issues to full resolution and manages a docket of between 15 and 30 outstanding conflict matters at any given time.
• Affords assistance 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.
• Liaises and interacts with the Compliance Teams at Norton Rose Fulbright Australia, Norton Rose Fulbright Canada, and Norton Rose Fulbright LLP on a daily basis.
• Analyzes conflict issues surrounding directorships and trusteeships in order to maintain databases.
• Reviews client relationship letters to identify contractual obligations to consider in the resolution of conflicts.
• Deals with questions and concerns related to our policies related to share dealing.

Qualifications and experience

• Licensed to practice law in one or more States in which Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP has an office (particularly Texas, California, Colorado, New York, Missouri, Illinois, Minnesota, and the District of Columbia).
• Experience working as a lawyer.
• A thorough acquaintance with and working knowledge of US conflicts rules highly preferred.
• Highly intelligent with excellent commercial judgment.
• Strong written and oral communication skills and experience operating in a multi-cultural environment.
• Sufficient maturity and judgment to work successfully and confidently with all levels including senior management and partners.
• Be sufficiently confident to exercise risk-based judgment calls on a daily basis.
• Be fully familiar with a lawyer’s duties regarding confidentiality, privilege and client care.
• Highly analytical with an ability to anticipate potential problems and creatively propose/implement solutions.
• Able to effectively supervise the work product and daily workflow of two analysts; prior supervisory experience is preferred.