Conflicts Analyst: Research, Sanctions & Client Screening

Morrison Foerster; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 63,000 - 99,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision coverage

Parental leave and family benefits

Global wellness program (Talkspace,Cal

Education reimbursement

Profit-sharing

Job summary

Morrison Foerster seeks a Conflicts Analyst to join the Conflicts/New Business team. You will produce and review conflict reports, research client and party structures, and identify potential conflicts and sanctions issues using the firm’s tools and workflows.

Ideal candidates have at least one year of conflicts or legal assistant experience, strong knowledge of conflicts issues and the ability to work with urgency.

Qualifications

• Minimum one year of conflicts or legal assistant experience (or similar law firm experience in a decision-making capacity) required.
• Intapp Conflicts experience strongly preferred.
• Experience with Microsoft applications required.
• Ability to respond to requests with appropriate sense of urgency based on business needs.
• Knowledge of conflicts of interest issues, laws and procedures.
• Ability to work overtime, as required.

Responsibilities

• Produce and review conflict reports and identify potential conflicts of interest and sanctions issues using the Firm’s conflicts software.
• Conduct factual research on client and parties to Firm matters using corporate structure and government sanctions lists external databases to identify corporate relationships and government sanctions status.
• Conduct factual research relating to the identification of potential conflicts issues, including determining if relevant matters have been closed, ascertaining the nature of an entity’s role in a particular matter, retrieving any existing waivers and identifying affiliate relationships of corporate entities using external databases.
• Review new requests and return results using the Firm’s in-house developed workflow system.
• Independently analyze the report with limited guidance from Conflicts Coordinators.
• Apply the Firm’s filtering and report summary application and submit the conflicts analysis results in Word to attorneys and secretaries via the electronic workflow system.
• Request the creation of ethical walls upon request as appropriate.
• Research and update corporate family trees.
• Retrieve and send waiver letters to attorneys upon request.
• Consistently promote and model the Firm's Client Service Principles in leadership.

Skills

Conflicts experience

Intapp Conflicts

Microsoft Office

Tools

Intapp Conflicts

Job description

Morrison Foerster seeks a Conflicts Analyst to join the Conflicts/New Business team. You will produce and review conflict reports, research client and party structures, and identify potential conflicts and sanctions issues using the firm’s tools and workflows.

Ideal candidates have at least one year of conflicts or legal assistant experience, strong knowledge of conflicts issues and the ability to work with urgency.