Conflicts Attorney

Min 3 yrs required

Full-time

No

## Law Firm Conflicts Attorney

**H1: Join Our Team as a Lateral Conflicts Attorney**

Dentons US LLP is currently recruiting for a Lateral Conflicts Attorney to join our team. This is an exciting opportunity to provide support to all levels of personnel throughout the Firm and US Region while being responsible for review and analysis of conflicts and other issues related to firm acceptance of new clients and new matters.

**H2: Job Responsibilities**

The successful candidate will be responsible for the following:

- Review and provide thorough and timely analysis of all firm new business in order to identify legal and business conflicts of interest
- Utilize available internal and external databases to review and analyze conflicts of interest reports with respect to clients, matters and prospective business
- Facilitate resolution of potential conflicts issues for lawyers firm wide
- Advise as to necessary waivers and assist in drafting waivers and engagement letters or other documentation for Partner review and/or submission to clients
- Proactively communicate with department leadership on complex conflicts questions and other compliance issues
- Maintain thorough, accurate and current records of all conflicts resolutions in order to ensure integrity of the database and assist in identification and clearing of future conflicts of interest
- Investigate and resolve erroneous, outdated or otherwise incomplete data on conflicts reports in order to maintain integrity of information in firm conflicts database and other records
- These duties may be ongoing or ad hoc in nature
- Other duties as may be assigned to fully meet the requirements of the position

**H2: Qualifications**

The ideal candidate should have the following qualifications:

- and must be licensed to practice law with at least 3 years of legal experience
- Prior experience working with law firms or corporate legal departments
- Experience with conflicts analysis strongly preferred but not required
- Strong oral and written communication skills
- Ability to work productively with firm personnel at all levels
- Excellent customer/client facing skills
- Strong analytical, interpersonal and organizational skills
- Methodical approach to work with a strong focus on accuracy, attention to details, consistency and quality
- Able to effectively negotiate with and influence colleagues and others to achieve a successful outcome
- Strong legal research skills
- Stay current with recent research and thinking on ethics and conflicts best practices and rules across jurisdictions in which the firm has offices
- Ability to work under pressure to tight project deadlines and can adapt to differing demands, prioritizing tasks where appropriate and ensuring complete 'follow through' on outstanding issues
- Demonstrated ability to make recommendations to effectively resolve problems or issues by using judgment that is consistent with standards, practices, policies, procedures, regulation or government law
- Knowledge of Intapp conflict checking, ethical wall and business intake software a plus

**H2: Salary and Benefits**

Dentons offers a competitive salary and benefits package to the successful candidate.

If you are interested in learning more about this opportunity and joining our team, please submit your application today. We look forward to hearing from you.

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Legal experience, Conflicts Analysis, Oral and Written Communication Skills, Analytical, Interpersonal and Organizational Skills, Legal Research Skills, Intapp Conflict Checking, Ethical Wall and Business Intake Software

assist in drafting waivers and engagement letters or other documentation for partner review and/or submission to clients

Qualification and Experience JD

Legal