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About the Role
The Compliance (Conflicts) Lawyer directly protects the firm by ensuring ethical, regulatory, and commercial risks are identified and mitigated before new matters, lateral hires, or business initiatives proceed. This team enables partners and other personnel to move forward confidently with client work while maintaining compliance with U.S. and global practice standards.
Responsibilities
- Advise partners, lawyers, and the Global Compliance Team regarding the identification and resolution of potential conflicts of interests, including the relevant legal and ethical considerations and commercial concerns.
- Collaborate with a team of analysts to ensure consistent workflow and timely production, including supervising the workflows and work products of at least two Compliance Analysts.
- Interact with all levels of Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP Management to resolve potential conflict of interest issues or commercial concerns in the context of new matter intake, lateral hires, business development, and practice development projects.
- Drive any conflict issues to full resolution and manage a docket of between 15 and 30 outstanding conflict matters at any given time.
- Assist with enforcement and other issues related to Norton Rose Fulbright’s Global Practice Standards addressing stock and share dealings, external appointments, prohibitions on bribery, corruption and discrimination, economic sanctions, anti-money laundering requirements, and cyber security considerations.
- Liaise and interact with the Compliance Teams at Norton Rose Fulbright Australia, Norton Rose Fulbright Canada, and Norton Rose Fulbright LLP on a daily basis.
- Analyze conflict issues surrounding directorships and trusteeships in order to maintain databases.
- Review client relationship letters to identify contractual obligations to consider in the resolution of conflicts.
- Deal with questions and concerns related to our policies related to share dealing.
Requirements
- Licensed to practice law in one or more States where Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP has an office (particularly Texas, California, Colorado, New York, Missouri, Illinois, Minnesota, and the District of Columbia).
- Experience working as a lawyer.
- A thorough acquaintance with and working knowledge of US conflicts rules highly preferred.
- Highly intelligent with excellent commercial judgment.
- Strong written and oral communication skills and experience operating in a multi-cultural environment.
- Sufficient maturity and judgment to work successfully and confidently with all levels including senior management and partners.
- Be sufficiently confident to exercise risk-based judgment calls on a daily basis.
- Be fully familiar with a lawyer’s duties regarding confidentiality, privilege and client care.
- Highly analytical with an ability to anticipate potential problems and creatively propose/implement solutions.
- Ability to effectively supervise the work product and daily workflow of two analysts; prior supervisory experience is preferred.
Skills
- Conflict review
- Legal research
- Risk mitigation
- Client relationship management
- Supervisory skills
- Analytical skills
- Problem-solving
- Communication skills
- Commercial judgment
Location
- Remote (Texas, California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota, Missouri, New York, and the District of Columbia)
Work Type
- Full-time
- Remote
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Experienced lawyer
Education Level
- Juris Doctor (JD) or equivalent law degree
Salary/Compensations
- $135,000 - $165,000 (California, Chicago, Denver, Minneapolis, New York, and Washington, DC markets)
Benefits
- Access to three medical insurance plans
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Life insurance
- Disability insurance
- Pre-tax benefits (health savings and flexible spending accounts)
- 401(k) savings plan
- Profit-sharing plans (if eligible)
- Fertility benefits
- Commuter benefits
- Student loan assistance refinancing options
- Competitive paid time off plan (minimum 20 days)
- Generous paid maternity leave (minimum 14 weeks)
- Paid paternity leave (minimum 14 weeks)
- Child care support (back-up care program)
- 11 Firm holidays
About the Company
- Norton Rose Fulbright is a highly regarded global law firm with over 3,000 lawyers and 3,000 business services professionals across 50 offices worldwide.
- The firm provides a full range of legal services to leading corporations and financial institutions operating in key markets and sectors.
- Norton Rose Fulbright consistently receives recognition from Great Place to Work and Top Workplaces.
- The firm's culture embraces ambition, development, and shared success, with teams collaborating across regions and valuing new ideas.
Equal Opportunity
- Norton Rose Fulbright will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring.
- Norton Rose Fulbright will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.
- Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP is an Equal Opportunity Employer and complies with all applicable federal laws and their implementing regulations.
- Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status.
- Norton Rose Fulbright is committed to providing reasonable accommodation as an Equal Opportunity Employer to applicants with disabilities.
- Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant.