Lateral Intake Specialist

Responsibilities

• Conducts research and analyzes the corporate business structure and history of potential clients and adversaries.
• Reviews, analyzes, interprets, and summarizes complex conflicts search results as part of the conflict analysis and reporting process and pursuant to the rules of professional conduct.
• Generates conflict reports and follows up on outstanding conflict requests, often performed on an urgent basis.
• Performs self-evaluative quality control checks of conflict reports prior to delivery.
• Provides a foundational understanding of potential business and ethical conflicts to Conflicts Analysts and Professional Responsibility Counsel, and works with the New Business Intake Lateral Team on the resolution of conflicts.
• Communicates with partners in order to assist in the processing of lateral candidate requests and the resolution of conflicts.

Qualifications

• Experience working in a law firm environment preferred.
• 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.