Conflicts Analyst

About the role

The Conflicts Analyst plays a crucial role in supporting DLA Piper's risk management function. They are responsible for analyzing and resolving potential legal and business conflicts, drafting conflict waiver letters, and maintaining the firm's internal conflicts database.

Responsibilities

• Reviews, interprets, and summarizes conflict report results.
• Analyzes and resolves potential legal and business conflicts.
• Implements information barriers and ensures proper notification to affected personnel.
• Drafts formal email waivers and conflict waiver letters to ensure proper documentation of legal or business conflicts relating to new business.
• Maintains conflict information in the financial database, including related party information and client/matter narratives relating to conflicts resolution notes.
• Reviews new business intake forms and identifies conflicts in order to ensure accuracy, including verifying information, conducting corporate research, and communicating with all levels of personnel of the firm in order to ensure accurate conflict clearance.
• Maintains internal conflicts database and ensures proper and accurate documentation of legal and business conflicts.
• Performs corporate research on all parties involved in new business requests in order to confirm relationships with existing firm clients.
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Must have experience writing and communicating in a business environment in order to present information in a concise and meaningful end product.
• Experience with intake and conflicts software preferred.
• Excellent verbal and written business communication skills, with demonstrated ability to exercise good judgment and make sound decisions, while maintaining a customer service-oriented manner.
• The ability to apply critical thinking in evaluating different conflicts scenarios or outcomes and be adaptable to changes in the procedures or direction.
• Meticulous attention to detail and a proven ability to prioritize and multitask, with the ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment while maintaining high level work product.
• Able to identify data integrity issues and subsequently resolve them appropriately.

Qualifications

• Desired Skills
• Minimum Education: High School Diploma or GED.
• Preferred Education: Bachelor's Degree.
• Certificates: Paralegal certificate preferred.
• Minimum Years of Experience: 2 years’ direct experience in conflicts or new business intake department within a law firm, paralegal or similar experience required.

Skills

• Effective communication, verbal and in writing, with clients, lawyers, business professionals, and third parties.
• Produce deliverables, answer phone calls, and reply to correspondence in an efficient and responsive manner.
• Provide timely, accurate, and quality work product.
• Successfully meet deadlines, expectations, and perform work duties as required.
• Foster positive work relationships.
• Comply with all firm policies and practices.
• Engage in both physical and sedentary activity, such as (a) working at a computer for extended periods of time, including on-screen reading and typing; (b) participating in digital/virtual conference calls; (c) participating in meetings as needed.
• Ability to work under pressure and manage competing demands in a fast-paced environment.
• Perform all other duties, tasks or projects as assigned.

Benefits

Our employees enjoy a comprehensive package of benefits, including medical/dental/vision insurance, and 401(k).

Pay

The compensation offered for employment will also be dependent on other factors including the candidate’s experience, skills, educational and professional background, and overall qualifications. The firm’s expected hiring range for this position is $34.09 - $53.18 per hour depending on the candidate’s geographic market location.

Schedule

The individual selected for this position may have the opportunity for a hybrid work arrangement comprised of remote and in-office work, the requirement for which will be determined in coordination with the hiring manager or supervisor and may be modified in the firm’s discretion in the future.