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About the Role
Fish & Richardson, a premier global intellectual property law firm, seeks a Conflicts Manager or Managing Conflicts Counsel to join its remote-first Risk Management Department. This role is crucial for managing ethical, business, and subject matter conflicts related to new business and lateral intake, ensuring the integrity of the firm's conflicts data.
Responsibilities
- Manage all conflicts searching, identification, and resolution of potential ethical, business, and subject matter conflicts relating to new business and lateral intake.
- Ensure the integrity of the firm’s conflicts data.
- Carry out managerial responsibilities including interviewing, hiring, and training new conflicts staff.
- Monitor, plan, assign, and direct the work of conflicts staff.
- Appraise performance and handle personnel-related issues.
- Address complaints and resolve problems.
- Serve as a positive role model and mentor.
- Perform all responsibilities with a commitment to providing superior service.
- Act as an effective coach to team members in meeting business goals and inspiring their continuing development.
- Involve team members in collaborative or team-empowered decisions.
- Develop, recommend, and implement new business and lateral intake and conflicts checking processes, procedures, systems, and application updates/modifications.
- Work with firm management to standardize, implement, and enforce firm policies and practices.
- Analyze and resolve complex conflict issues regarding opening new business and onboarding laterals.
- Manage the ongoing maintenance of the conflicts data to ensure its integrity.
- Monitor conflicts forums and annotations to ensure the receipt of client waivers and other required conflict information.
- Manage and implement any other changes or additions to the conflicts checking procedures.
- Prepare for, host, and memorialize the discussions and decisions of the Intake Committee conference calls.
- Provide information and assistance to members of the Intake Committee and General Counsel.
- Provide orientation and training of new attorneys and professional staff regarding new business conflicts and lateral hire procedures.
- Document new business intake and lateral clearance conflict identification and resolution procedures and other department procedures in a written and online procedure manual.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree required for Conflicts Manager position.
- J.D. and licensed in good standing required for Managing Conflicts Counsel position.
- 7+ years of experience in a law firm’s conflicts or new business intake department.
- Expertise in the identification, analysis, and resolution of conflicts of interest, including ethical, subject matter, and business conflicts.
- 5+ years of conflicts or new business intake experience in a supervisory or management capacity.
- Working knowledge of automated conflicts databases (e.g., InTapp).
- Demonstrated proficiency in supervising others and training personnel.
- Excellent investigative and analytical skills.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
- Excellent customer service skills.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications (Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel).
- Ability to work independently.
- Ability to identify issues and problems, and recommend and implement solutions.
- Ability to oversee team members in various positions and geographic locations.
- Demonstrated leadership skills, including critical thinking, risk-taking, and creativity.
- Managerial skills to interact and communicate with team members, provide instruction and direction, determine work priorities, and coordinate team activities.
- Ability to delegate and manage resources effectively.
- Highly effective communication skills.
- Ability to conduct meetings and correspond with firm principals, attorneys, and leadership regarding complex issues.
- Ability to change and adapt to current and future responsibilities and circumstances.
Skills
- Conflicts searching
- Conflicts identification
- Conflicts resolution
- Data integrity management
- Personnel management
- Training
- Coaching
- Process development
- Policy implementation
- Risk management
- Investigative skills
- Analytical skills
- Written communication
- Oral communication
- Customer service
- Microsoft Office Suite
- Leadership
- Critical thinking
- Delegation
- Resource management
Location
- Remote
- MN
- TX
- GA
- IL
Work Type
- Remote-first
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 7+ years experience in conflicts or new business intake
- 5+ years supervisory or management experience
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree
- J.D. (for Managing Conflicts Counsel)
Salary/Compensations
- $134,000 - $200,000 per year
Benefits
- Competitive pay
- Discretionary bonus opportunities
- Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
- Generous paid time off
- Tuition reimbursement
- Award-winning retirement and profit sharing plans with employer contribution
- Back-up child care
- Health and wellness initiatives
About the Company
- Fish & Richardson is the premier global intellectual property law firm, trusted by the world’s most innovative and influential companies.
- Established in 1878, the firm has more than 400 attorneys and technology specialists in the U.S., Europe, and China.
- The firm's success is rooted in its creative and inclusive culture, valuing diversity of people, experiences, and perspectives.
- Awarded an Outstanding Workplace designation in 2023 and 2024 by People Insight based on high employee engagement.
Equal Opportunity
- As a firm that serves the world’s greatest visionaries, we know that creativity and innovation are the result of seeing the world from multiple different perspectives.
- Having a diverse team enhances the quality of legal services we provide to our clients, sustains our standing as a premier IP law firm, and strengthens the fabric of our firm.