Conflicts & Risk Manager

Brown Rudnick LLP; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Brown Rudnick LLP seeks a Conflicts & Risk Manager to lead the Intake & Conflicts Team and oversee conflicts clearance for new clients and matters. You will coordinate risk assessments, resolve conflicts of interest, and ensure compliance with professional rules, reporting to the Director of Intake & Conflicts.

The role requires managing complex searches, improving processes, and maintaining databases, with strong collaboration across attorneys and staff.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• 5+ years of legal conflicts experience in a high-volume environment; 1+ years supervisory experience preferred.
• Must have experience with bankruptcies.
• Knowledge of US ethical rules of professional conduct as they relate to conflicts of interest. Familiarity with UK ethics rules a plus.
• Deep experience with Intapp.

Responsibilities

• Lead, develop, and oversee a team of Conflicts & Risk Analysts, ensuring the timely and accurate identification, analysis, and resolution of conflicts of interest for new clients, matters, and lateral hires.
• Identify and elevate complex conflicts and risk issues to the Director, Conflicts Attorneys, and Administrative Partner.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with attorneys, Legal Executive Assistants, and business services professionals to understand business objectives, provide guidance on conflicts-related matters, and deliver exceptional client service.
• Oversee the execution of large-scale and highly complex conflicts searches, including bankruptcy pitches and retentions, ensuring the accurate review of substantial datasets while effectively managing competing priorities and tight deadlines.
• Manage departmental workflows, staffing, and resource allocation to ensure efficient operations, timely responsiveness, and adherence to service level expectations.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives by identifying opportunities to enhance conflicts processes, workflows, reporting capabilities, and overall operational effectiveness.
• Review and analyze client engagement terms and outside counsel guidelines in connection with conflict check requests and provide recommendations for resolution of conflicts to the Conflicts Attorneys.
• Ensure the integrity of conflicts and client matter databases through effective oversight of data maintenance, quality control procedures, and system updates.
• Direct the Conflicts & Risk Analysts in the implementation, maintenance, and monitoring of ethical screens to safeguard confidential information and ensure compliance with professional responsibility obligations.
• Maintain and update team policies and guidelines.
• Train, mentor, and support team members to foster professional growth, strengthen technical expertise, and promote a collaborative, high-performing team environment.
• Lead special projects and perform other responsibilities related to conflicts, risk management, compliance, and intake operations as assigned.

Skills

Legal conflicts experience

Supervisory experience

Bankruptcies

Ethics rules knowledge

Interpersonal/communication skills

Multi-office collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Intapp

Job description

We strive to be enterprising, respectful, inclusive, insightful, and tenacious in every aspect of our business, including our interactions with clients, colleagues, and the communities where we have a presence. We rely on these core values to serve clients in key practice areas and industries – the pillars of Brown Rudnick: crisis management, which includes restructuring, investigations, and special situations; global litigation; life sciences; technology; and brand and reputation protection.

We are seeking a Conflicts & Risk Manager to lead and oversee our growing Intake & Conflicts Team. The Conflicts & Risk Manager will be responsible for managing the firm's conflicts clearance and risk assessment processes, working with the Conflicts & Risk Analysts to identify and resolve potential conflicts of interest related to new clients and matters, and ensuring compliance with applicable rules of professional responsibility and firm policies. This individual will report to the Director of Intake & Conflicts and will work closely with the Administrative Partner, attorneys, firm leadership, and cross-functional departments to develop and implement conflict resolution and risk mitigation strategies.

Responsibilities

• Lead, develop, and oversee a team of Conflicts & Risk Analysts, ensuring the timely and accurate identification, analysis, and resolution of conflicts of interest for new clients, matters, and lateral hires.
• Identify and elevate complex conflicts and risk issues to the Director, Conflicts Attorneys, and Administrative Partner.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with attorneys, Legal Executive Assistants, and business services professionals to understand business objectives, provide guidance on conflicts-related matters, and deliver exceptional client service.
• Oversee the execution of large-scale and highly complex conflicts searches, including bankruptcy pitches and retentions, ensuring the accurate review of substantial datasets while effectively managing competing priorities and tight deadlines.
• Manage departmental workflows, staffing, and resource allocation to ensure efficient operations, timely responsiveness, and adherence to service level expectations.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives by identifying opportunities to enhance conflicts processes, workflows, reporting capabilities, and overall operational effectiveness.
• Review and analyze client engagement terms and outside counsel guidelines in connection with conflict check requests and provide recommendations for resolution of conflicts to the Conflicts Attorneys.
• Ensure the integrity of conflicts and client matter databases through effective oversight of data maintenance, quality control procedures, and system updates.
• Direct the Conflicts & Risk Analysts in the implementation, maintenance, and monitoring of ethical screens to safeguard confidential information and ensure compliance with professional responsibility obligations.
• Maintain and update team policies and guidelines.
• Train, mentor, and support team members to foster professional growth, strengthen technical expertise, and promote a collaborative, high-performing team environment.
• Lead special projects and perform other responsibilities related to conflicts, risk management, compliance, and intake operations as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• 5+ years of legal conflicts experience in a high-volume environment, 1+ years of supervisory experience preferred.
• Must have experience with bankruptcies.
• Knowledge of US ethical rules of professional conduct as they relate to conflicts of interest. Familiarity with UK ethics rules a plus.
• Deep experience with Intapp.
• Strong sense of accountability and urgency and an ownership mindset. .
• Able to interact with all levels of legal staff and personnel, including firm management, attorneys, and support staff.
• Team-oriented and able to work in a multi-office environment across technology platforms.
• Excellent attention to detail and time management. A strong candidate will have the ability to triage and prioritize requests appropriately and execute on or delegate those requests to the team.
• Strong organizational, writing, and communications skills.
• Available to work outside of normal work hours from time to time to support the needs of the firm, attorneys, and team.

Who We Are

Brown Rudnick is a leading international law firm that provides exceptional, client-driven service in global litigation, crisis management (restructuring, investigations and special situations), brand and reputation management, life sciences and technology. We advise on high-profile cross-border matters while providing the kind of personal attention to clients that is typically found at boutiques. Our enterprising and tenacious lawyers serve our clients around the globe from offices in key financial centers in the U.S. and the U.K., and have been recognized by, among others, Chambers & Partners, Legal 500, Benchmark Litigation and Law360 for excellence in their fields.

Salary range based on experience level and location is estimated to be in the range of $130,000 - 160,000.

Brown Rudnick LLP is an Equal Opportunity Employer

committed to recruiting, developing, and advancing talented professionals from all backgrounds across the spectrum of diversity. All employees and applicants are evaluated on the basis of their qualifications, consistent with applicable state and federal laws, without regard to race, ethnicity, color, ancestry, religious beliefs, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, age, national origin, marital status, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, military or veteran status, or another protected characteristic, all as defined by applicable laws.