at Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP in Chicago, Illinois, United States
Job Description
Katten is a full-service law firm with approximately 700 attorneys in locations across the United States and in London and Shanghai. Clients seeking sophisticated, high-value legal services turn to Katten for counsel locally, nationally and internationally. The firms core areas of practice include corporate, financial markets and funds, insolvency and restructuring, intellectual property, litigation, real estate, structured finance and securitization, transactional tax planning, private credit and private wealth. Katten represents public and private companies in numerous industries, as well as a number of government and nonprofit organizations and individuals.
Conflicts Analyst I
The Conflicts Analyst is responsible for maintaining the Conflicts databases and for producing Conflicts reports by structuring search strategies and utilizing independent judgment that both accurately and efficiently produce anticipated results. Maintains professionalism and strict confidentiality in all client and firm matters.
This is a full-time position working Monday through Friday 9:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
The Conflicts Analyst I position will allow significant opportunity to work from home with occasional office presence required. Overtime may be required as dictated by business and training needs.
Essential Duties and Responsibilitiesinclude, but may not be limited to, the following. Other duties may be requested and/or assigned. Essential functions are primary job duties that an individual must be able to perform successfully with or without a reasonable accommodation. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Define complex conflict search strategies using Boolean logic. Analyze result set by filtering hits to ensure that anticipated results reflect potential conflicts and that false hits are eliminated from the results.
- Perform data entry to maintain Conflicts database. Duties include, but are not limited to, initial setup and on-going maintenance of all party information in the database with correct position/relationship codes.
- Review new matters and revision requests to ensure party positions and relationships, area of law codes, and matter descriptions appear accurate and that appropriate approvals have been obtained.
- Perform corporate research using electronic databases to determine lineage and other corporate information.
- Establish and maintain ethical walls to screen individuals from particular clients and matters as part of the conflict clearing process. Equal Opportunity Employer - minorities/females/veterans/individuals with disabilities/sexual orientation/gender identity
