Hybrid Conflicts Analyst

at DLA Piper

• Job title: Conflicts Analyst
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Junior, Mid level
• Salary: $33 - $52 per hour
• Degree requirement: High School Diploma
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Palo Alto, United States

About the role

• Conflicts Analyst role at DLA Piper analyzing and resolving legal/business conflicts. Ensuring compliance and implementing strategies for new business risk management.

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 to existing firm clients.
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• 2 years’ direct experience in conflicts or new business intake department within a law firm, paralegal or similar experience required.
• 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.
• Ability to identify data integrity issues and subsequently resolve them appropriately.
• Minimum Education High School Diploma or GED.
• Preferred Education Bachelor’s degree.

Benefits

• medical/dental/vision insurance
• 401(k)