Conflicts Analyst/Supervisor

Conflicts Analyst/Supervisor

The Conflicts Analyst/Supervisor plays a critical role in ensuring the firm's compliance with ethical and legal standards by overseeing the conflicts process. This position involves the identification, resolution, and thorough documentation of potential conflicts arising from various activities, including new business intake, lateral hires, and ongoing matters. The role requires strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and the ability to work collaboratively across departments and practice groups. The ideal candidate will possess the ability to effectively manage the conflict resolution process, demonstrating a proactive approach and a willingness to undertake hands-on responsibilities to ensure the seamless execution of operational activities.

Responsibilities include managing the firm's conflicts process to ensure compliance with internal and external standards, administering the firm's conflicts platform, developing and implementing policies and procedures to improve conflicts processes and mitigate risk, monitoring regulatory and ethical developments affecting conflicts management and ensuring firm compliance, collaborating on audits and internal reviews related to conflicts and risk management, reviewing conflicts reports to eliminate extraneous information and highlight potential red flags, analyzing conflict reports and evaluating conflicts of interests under the applicable Rules of Professional Conduct and other legal authorities, resolving common conflicts issues and escalating complex issues to the Office of the General Counsel for further review and resolution, evaluating and determining whether conflicts are waivable and assisting with preparing conflict waivers, acting as primary point of contact for all conflicts-related matters, entering conflict data into the conflicts program to generate reports, conducting applicable research, and presenting findings to attorneys for review of conflict results, leading periodic conflicts training sessions for attorneys and staff, supervising the conflicts team and ensuring timely and accurate conflicts checks, overseeing the hiring, onboarding, and training of conflicts staff, conducting annual performance reviews of the conflicts staff, and other responsibilities as assigned.

Qualifications include excellent analytical, organizational, and communications skills, strong interpersonal and problem-solving skills, ability to multi-task and effectively manage work under time constraints, ability to interact with attorneys and staff at all levels, and proven leadership and team management experience.

Education and experience include minimum of 5 years of experience in conflicts management within a law firm, bachelor's degree required; JD or LL.M degree preferred, knowledge of the Rules of Professional Conduct governing conflicts of interest and authorities interpreting those rules, experience evaluating conflicts of interest for mid- to large-sized law firms, strong understanding of legal ethics, professional responsibility rules, and risk management, and experience with conflicts software (e.g., Elite, Aderant, Aderant Expert Sierra) and legal research tools. Proficient in MS Word, Excel, Outlook, and iManage.

Salary is $100,000 - $130,000. This is a hybrid position; in-office Tuesday–Thursday and as otherwise needed. Frankfurt Kurnit offers eligible employees a comprehensive range of benefits, including medical, dental, vision care, life insurance, disability insurance, commuter benefits, flexible spending, and retirement plans.