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Job Title

Conflicts Analyst

Department

New Business Conflicts and Compliance

Office Location

London or Birmingham

Reports To

Conflicts Supervisor

Working Hours

35 hours per week, 9:30am to 5:30pm but additional hours may be required. We are happy to consider agile and flexible working patterns. Our approach to hybrid working allows for up to 40% of time working from home and 60% working in the office, please contact a member of the recruitment team to discuss further.

Firm Description

Hogan Lovells is one of the leading global law firms. Our distinctive market position is founded on our exceptional breadth of our practice, on deep industry knowledge, and on our 'one team' global approach. Formed through the combination of two top international law firms, Hogan Lovells has over 40 offices in the Americas, Asia-Pacific, Europe, the Middle East and Africa. With a presence in the world's major financial and commercial markets, we are well placed to provide excellent business-oriented advice to our clients locally and internationally. Our people are the key to our success, which is why we seek to recruit and retain the most talented individuals in all regions of our global practice.

In the UK Hogan Lovells has offices in Birmingham and London. The Birmingham office opened in 2015 and has a number of practice areas including Corporate/Commercial, Disputes, Finance and Real Estate, as well as our Legal Delivery Centre and business services departments. The office has recently trebled in size and moved into a new fitted out space in the Colmore Building.

Department Description

Hogan Lovells New Business Conflicts Department is charged with investigating legal conflicts of interest and firm business issues. If conflicts of interest or business issues are identified, the department is charged with rectifying those issues prior to the matter being approved by a partner on the Ethics Committee and a firm matter number being opened.

Role Overview

This position is responsible for working closely with the New Business Conflicts Supervisor, firm’s Ethics Committee, firm attorneys, and other levels of firm administration as well as other members of the New Business Conflicts Department in connection with the review of new business to identify and facilitate resolution of conflicts of interest.

Key Responsibilities / Accountabilities

• Review of new business intake requests and collating the results of preliminary conflicts checks, ensure search terms and corporate hierarchy results are accurate and precise;
• Research of new client matters, including the resolution and clearance of conflict of interest using Rules of Professional Conduct for various jurisdictions;
• Coding of engagement letters pursuant to established guidelines and documenting of such actions in the conflicts database;
• Coordinate the receipt, documentation, and preparation of engagement letters, client waivers and/or consents; in collaboration with firm attorneys;
• Prepare and implement required screens/firewalls;
• Secure approval of new matters from the Ethics Committee (including authorized approvers) and all other levels of Firm Administration as governed by existing clearance guidelines;
• Provide guidance and feedback in the training and development of junior staff members;
• Exercise proficiency in understanding and utilising the Conflicts Database;
• Monitor and track various special interest projects; and
• Assist the Conflicts team with a wide range of other requests and projects as may be assigned;
• All members of the firm participate in our Responsible Business program.

Specific duties or responsibilities may be reviewed from time to time to reflect changes in personnel and management structure, staff location or services

Person Specification

Qualifications and Training

• Educated to degree level or equivalent experience

The Candidate

Essential

• Ability to multi-task
• Strict attention to detail
• Responsive to competing demands with an ability to work well under pressure
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Understanding of legal ethics rules

Desired

• Flexibility in regards to schedule to accommodate work demands
• Effective communicator
• Perceptive

Skills and Experience

Essential

• Microsoft Word
• Microsoft Office
• Microsoft Excel
• Mergent, Dun & Bradstreet
• Accuity, Compliance Link
• Conflict of interest researching
• Conflict of interest analysis

Desired

• Law Firm experience
• Intapp Intake or comparable conflicts workflow system
• Thompson 3E or comparable financial / conflicts database

General Attributes

• Works well in a team environment
• Works well independently

Qualifications and Training

• Educated to degree level or equivalent experience
• 2+ years of Conflict of Interest Analysis experience at a professional services firm

Agile Working Statement

Our goal is to embed flexibility across our business by giving everyone the opportunity to work in an agile way, whether as a regular pattern or on an ad hoc basis, and we will be happy to discuss this further.

Equal Opportunities Employment Statement

It is the policy of Hogan Lovells to provide equal opportunities for all employees in relation to recruitment, training and promotion. Decisions in these areas will be made only by reference to the requirements of the job and shall not be influenced by any consideration of racial or ethnic origin, religion, sex , gender and gender identity, age, sexual orientation, marital and civil partnership status, pregnancy or disability.