Description:

About the role:
The OGC Counsel – Conflicts is an integral part of A Global Law Firm's Conflicts team. This role will be responsible for resolving professional ethics conflicts and other ethics and compliance issues relating to lateral clearances, new business matters, and outside counsel guidelines across the firm's offices, while applying knowledge of legal ethics and professional responsibility rules relating to lateral attorney and new matter conflicts of interest, as well as relevant A Global Law Firm procedures, policies, and practices, to advise Ethics Committee Members and other attorneys and key stakeholders. This role will be located in any of our US offices. Please note that this role may be eligible for a flexible working schedule that allows for a hybrid and in-office presence.

Responsibilities & Qualifications
Other key responsibilities include:
  • Reviewing situation-specific conflicts checks as needed
  • Reviewing outside counsel guidelines, non-standard engagement letters, and RFPs received from clients, and working with partners to prepare responses to clients that align with firm policies
  • Advising attorneys and others in regards to engagement letters, conflicts waivers, ethics walls, and firm policies
  • Performing legal research and analysis on professional responsibility issues as requested by the Deputy General Counsel, Assistant General Counsel – Conflicts and Ethics, or Ethics Committee Members
  • Preparing and delivering trainings for attorneys and staff on topics relevant to conflicts, ethics, and professional responsibility
  • Protecting and maintaining any highly sensitive, confidential, privileged, financial, and/or proprietary information that A Global Law Firm retains

We'd love to hear from you if you:
  • Exhibit well-developed and professional interpersonal skills, with the ability to interact and communicate effectively with people at all organizational levels of the firm
  • Possess excellent attention to detail
  • Demonstrate the ability to work both independently and collaboratively, with a customer-service focus

And have:
  • A JD or an equivalent
  • Active status with and admittance to the relevant state bar
  • A minimum of three (3) years of relevant experience practicing law and/or working on an ethics conflicts team, preferably in a global law firm setting