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About the Role
This hybrid role combines conflicts clearance with broader legal risk management, matter support, and departmental initiatives, enabling informed decisions on matter acceptance and supporting in-house lawyers on legal and ethical issues. The position is ideal for a lawyer seeking to build extensive legal risk-management and advisory experience, using conflicts work as a foundation.
Responsibilities
- Assess and resolve potential conflicts identified in conflicts reports.
- Handle straightforward conflicts issues independently and escalate complex matters.
- Collaborate with partners, senior in-house lawyers, and the Conflicts Team to support timely matter-acceptance decisions.
- Manage the conflicts clearance process efficiently.
- Develop a strong working knowledge of the firm's conflicts processes, systems, and related walls/information-barrier tools.
- Support in-house lawyers on delegated, matter-specific assignments, including reviewing agreements and analyzing legal or ethical issues.
- Research issues and prepare initial recommendations to mitigate legal, ethical, and professional risk.
- Prepare first drafts of training materials, guidance documents, and internal policies.
- Support Legal Department initiatives and larger-scale projects, including AI-related initiatives.
- Provide project management support for departmental assignments and initiatives.
Requirements
- Juris Doctorate degree required.
- U.S. qualified (New York preferred).
- 1 - 4 years of post-admission experience in a law firm.
- Litigation background preferred.
- Prior experience in conflicts or law firm risk management is helpful but not required.
- Strong legal analysis, judgment, and written communication skills.
- Flexible and adaptable approach to respond to changing priorities and workload.
- Proactive, self-starting approach with an interest in seeking additional assignments and learning opportunities.
- Willingness to learn conflicts processes and technology from the ground up.
- Strong technological aptitude and interest in developing proficiency in firm systems (conflicts database, iManage, network drives, information-barrier tools, 3E).
- Interest in exploring responsible use of AI tools to improve processes and workflow efficiency.
- Genuine interest in using conflicts work as a foundation for developing broader legal risk-management and advisory skills.
- Prospective employees' publicly available information may be reviewed.
Skills
- Legal analysis
- Legal judgment
- Written communication
- Project management
- Technological aptitude
- AI tools utilization
Location
- New York
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 1 - 4 years post-admission experience
Education Level
- Juris Doctorate
Salary/Compensations
- US $165,000 – US $220,000
Benefits
- Annual discretionary bonus
About the Company
- Kobre & Kim is a conflict-free global law firm focused on disputes and investigations, often involving fraud and misconduct.
- Recognized as the premier firm for cross-border disputes, with a focus on financial products and services litigation, insolvency disputes, intellectual property litigation, international judgment enforcement and asset recovery, and U.S. government enforcement and regulatory investigations.
- Over 400 employees across global office locations.
- Values diverse perspectives and professional disciplines.
- Provides service that is timely, accurate, unbiased, and trusted.
- Defines success in terms of client success.
- Dynamic, innovative, and entrepreneurial work environment.
- Result-oriented culture demanding excellence, agility, and quick action.
- Challenging yet supportive environment offering opportunities for skill development.
- Values diversity of culture and thought.
- Seeks talented, qualified employees regardless of protected classifications.
Equal Opportunity
- Kobre & Kim values diversity of culture and thought and seeks talented, qualified employees in all its operations around the world regardless of race, gender, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age or any other protected classification under country or local law.
- Kobre & Kim is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.