Conflicts & Business Intake Specialist - City of London, United Kingdom - Larbey Evans

Larbey Evans

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City of London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Description

A top US law firm in central London is looking to hire a new Conflicts & Business Intake Specialist to join the growing firm on a permanent basis, working in a team responsible for the firm avoiding conflicts with it's current and potential clients' interests.

The role will work 3 days in the office, 2 days at home, with a salary of around £45,000 with flexibility on offer, plus excellent benefits.

Responsibilities for the Conflicts & Business Intake Specialist will include review and triage conflict requests to ensure that information to be checked is complete and accurate, review to confirm that the correct request type is selected, all relevantparties with the correct position and relationship codes are added to the search, and that we have sufficient information regarding the conflict check for accurate analysis, communicate with secretaries, attorneys and/or conflicts team to ensure that theyhave complete and accurate information, perform conflict-of-interest searches using Intapp software.

Perform Capital IQ, Orbis, and other web-based research relating to individuals/companies to be searched, carry out analysis of the search results on the lesscomplex requests (matter re-openings, low risk new matters etc), perform party linkage to all client/matters once assigned, along with maintenance of an accurate electronic record of all approved or rejected conflict searches.

Other duties will include reviewmatter opening documentation to ensure firm's requirements are met, including ensuring receipt of compliant engagement and waiver documents, and escalating any non-compliance issues to the Manager or Director, organise, prioritise and troubleshoot matter openingissues, including missing or non-compliant documentation; contact individuals as necessary to obtain all required documentation or otherwise secure compliance and perform administrative duties, including filing and maintaining engagement letters, outside counsel/billingguidelines and waiver letters into the firm's document management system.

The successful Conflicts & Business Intake Specialist must have previous conflicts experience within a law firm, strong analytical, organisational and written skills, a strong knowledge of working on systems and excellent Microsoft Office experience.

Standardhours are 9.30am - 5.30pm, with a salary of £45,000 on offer, plus agile working and excellent benefits.