Senior Conflicts Analyst

Hinckley Allen is seeking a Senior Conflicts Analyst to join our team. This is a remote position available to applicants residing in Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, and Rhode Island.

This role is responsible for conducting complex conflicts analysis, identifying legal and business risks, and providing strategic guidance to attorneys and firm leadership. This role is also responsible for analyzing conflicts search results, preparing detailed conflicts reports, and summarizing results for the requesting attorney. Additionally, this role assists with resolving potential issues that have been identified for new business and, possibly, lateral matters, under the direction of the Conflicts Manager and Director of Conflicts.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Independently conduct corporate research using an online database, along with general web searches, to determine corporate parents, affiliations, or other important relationships.
• Use proper search strategies in our firm’s internal database to conduct conflicts searches for new business, and possibly lateral, matters. Draft and analyze detailed written conflicts reports that include risk assessment, identification of applicable ethics rules, and recommended courses of action.
• Proactively communicate complex conflicts search results to requesting attorneys, identifying any potential conflicts and business issues in a concise and comprehensive summary. Throughout running conflicts searches, assist with the ongoing maintenance of the firm’s database.
• Ability to work collaboratively and communicate effectively with the Director of Conflicts, Conflicts Manager, other Conflicts team members, General Counsel, and firm attorneys.
• Provide information and answer general questions concerning the conflicts process from staff and attorneys.
• Participate in developing and refining conflicts policies, procedures and workflow improvements to enhance efficiency and risk management.
• Serve as a resource to junior analysts by providing guidance on search strategy, issue spotting, and documentation, support analyst onboarding and development.
• Assist with other assigned or required duties.

Skills and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree strongly preferred, with knowledge and experience in conflicts resolution.
• 5-7 years of experience in a law firm conflicts or business intake department.
• Experience using inTapp is strongly preferred, or a similar conflicts software.
• Knowledge of professional responsibility and legal ethics rules.
• Strong working knowledge of conflicts rules and their practical application in a law firm environment.
• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills with attention to detail.
• Self-motivated with the ability to work independently with minimal supervision, as well as effectively in a team environment.
• Strong written and verbal communication.
• Excellent customer service skills.
• Demonstrated ability to exercise independent judgement, manage competing priorities, and handle sensitive and confidential information with discretion.
• Experience handling complex conflicts scenarios, including lateral attorney onboarding and high volume or high-risk matters, preferred.

Hinckley Allen is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or any other protected status.