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About the Role

This role is part of The Hub, Fish’s remote-first group of professionals, focusing on supporting the Risk Management Department as a Conflicts Specialist. Hub employees work primarily from home with no expectation of a regular in-office presence.

Responsibilities

• Provide timely response and follow-up to conflict inquiries received via e-mail, regular mail, or telephone.
• Follow established procedures for tracking, maintaining, and resolving conflict memorandums.
• Review new business submissions for content and accuracy, collaborating with submitters to obtain complete and correct information.
• Follow up on identified potential conflict issues to ensure resolution.
• Review and initiate resolution of pending business and ethical conflict issues.
• Coordinate conflict resolution with involved attorneys for both ethical and business conflict issues.
• Prepare and produce accurate conflict reports on new clients and matters, and portable work for potential lateral hires.
• Conduct research on new clients and adverse parties, including gathering and filtering corporate family tree information.
• Review and advise on the creation of ethical walls for new matters, considering existing client-level ethical walls and/or specific conflict issues.

Requirements

• A bachelor’s degree or equivalent education and experience.
• 3+ years of related ethics and conflicts experience in a law firm.
• Strong knowledge of law firm administrative processes.
• Ability to identify issues and problems and recommend and implement solutions.
• Ability to organize and prioritize numerous tasks and complete them under time constraints.
• Attention to detail and the ability to prioritize and perform effectively under pressure.
• Experience with and ability to effectively use software such as word processing, spreadsheets, and database tools.
• Interpersonal skills necessary to maintain effective relationships and communicate with a diverse group of principals, attorneys, managers and staff via telephone or e-mail.
• Ability to successfully develop quality team relationships and work well within a team-oriented environment.
• Ability to adapt to current and future responsibilities and circumstances and adhere to firm policies and procedures.

Skills

• Word processing
• Spreadsheets
• Database tools
• Interpersonal skills
• Teamwork

Location

• Remote
• MA
• DE
• NY
• CA
• DC
• MN
• TX
• GA
• IL

Work Type

• Remote-first
• Full-time

Experience Level

• 3+ years of related ethics and conflicts experience

Education Level

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent education and experience

Salary/Compensations

• Chicago, Minneapolis, and Washington, D.C.: $59,000 - $74,000 annually
• Boston, New York, San Diego, and Silicon Valley: $59,000 - $74,000 annually

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, Fish 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 the diversity of people, experiences, and perspectives.

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.