Conflicts Junior Analyst - 12 month fixed term contract

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Job Title

Conflicts Junior Analyst - 12 month fixed term contract

Department

New Business Conflicts and Compliance

Office Location

London/Birmingham

Reports To

Conflicts Supervisor

Working Hours

35 hours per week, 9:30am to 5:30pm but additional hours may be required. We are happy to consider agile and flexible working patterns. Our approach to hybrid working allows for up to 40% of time working from home and 60% working in the office. Please contact a member of the recruitment team to discuss further.

Firm Description

Hogan Lovells is one of the leading global law firms. Our distinctive market position is founded on our exceptional breadth of our practice, on deep industry knowledge, and on our 'one team' global approach. Formed through the combination of two top international law firms, Hogan Lovells has over 40 offices in the Americas, Asia-Pacific, Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

With a presence in the world's major financial and commercial markets, we are well placed to provide excellent business-oriented advice to our clients locally and internationally. Our people are the key to our success, which is why we seek to recruit and retain the most talented individuals in all regions of our global practice.

In the UK Hogan Lovells has offices in Birmingham and London. The Birmingham office opened in 2015 and has a number of practice areas including Corporate/Commercial, Disputes, Finance and Real Estate, as well as our Legal Delivery Centre and Business teams. The office has recently trebled in size and moved into a new fitted out space in the Colmore Building.

Department Description

Hogan Lovells New Business Conflicts Department is charged with investigating legal conflicts of interest and firm business issues. If conflicts of interest or business issues are identified, the department is charged with rectifying those issues prior to the matter being approved by a partner on the Ethics Committee and a firm matter number being opened.

Role Overview

This position is responsible for assisting the Conflicts Supervisor, and other members of the New Business Conflicts & Compliance Department (US LLP) and Firm Administration with corporate and conflicts database research; and the review of conflicts of interest issues related to potential new business, new lateral candidates, support staff and various special interest initiatives in the firm, such as identification of sanctioned entities to ensure compliance with laws in certain jurisdictions and assisting with various special interest initiatives for the firm.

Key Responsibilities / Accountabilities

• Assist firm attorneys and members of the firm’s management in the identification and resolution of conflicts of interest.
• Assist in the identification of potential conflicts of interest through corporate and conflicts database research of client and matter information provided by requesting attorney, potential attorney, assistant and support staff.
• Conduct database research and analysis of the data.
• Assist with maintenance and update of the conflicts database.
• Research corporate history of clients and parties related to former and new client work.
• Respond to attorney and staff requests and perform conflicts of interest searches.
• Resolution and clearance of business sensitivity issues and straightforward conflicts of interest.
• Coordinate receipt and documentation and preparation of engagement letters and client waivers and/or consents.
• Assist members of the New Business Conflicts and Compliance Department with a wide range of research requests and other projects.
• General administrative duties including proofreading and filing.
• Assist the New Business Conflicts and Compliance Department with a wide range of research requests and other projects related to the research, resolution and clearance of basic conflicts of interest issues as assigned, including but not limited to, no-party matters and new matters for existing clients, non-portable lateral issues or staff and contractor conflicts checks.

Specific duties or responsibilities may be reviewed from time to time to reflect changes in personnel and management structure, staff location or services.

All members of the firm participate in our Responsible Business program.

Person Specification

General Attributes

• Personable, positive and responsible.
• Intention of learning and growing within Hogan Lovells.
• Informed career direction of pursuing a career within Conflicts.
• Commerciality; must be focused on delivering high quality service in a fast paced and challenging environment.
• Ability to effectively manage workload with supervision from senior team members until experienced enough to handle workload independently.
• Reliable and dependable.
• Ability to handle queries efficiently with diplomacy and tact.
• An effective and diligent team member with the ability to handle independent projects.
• Ability to follow instructions precisely.
• Self-starter with proven initiative and strong work ethic.
• High attention to detail.
• Excellent planning and organisational skills, time management, written and verbal communication skills.

Qualifications, Experience and Training

• Strong Microsoft Word and Excel skills.
• At least 9 months of Conflicts research or law firm experience.
• 3E database or comparable database experience.

Agile Working Statement

Our goal is to embed flexibility across our business by giving everyone the opportunity to work in an agile way, whether as a regular pattern or on an ad hoc basis, and we will be happy to discuss this further.

Equal Opportunities Employment Statement

It is the policy of Hogan Lovells to provide equal opportunities for all employees in relation to recruitment, training and promotion. Decisions in these areas will be made only by reference to the requirements of the job and shall not be influenced by any consideration of racial or ethnic origin, religion, sex, gender and gender identity, age, sexual orientation, marital and civil partnership status, pregnancy or disability.