Lateral Conflicts Onboarding Coordinator

At Taft, we work as one team, driven and committed to helping our clients succeed. A full-service law firm with more than 1,250 attorneys and over 2,000 on our team, we have the collaborative approach, advanced technological resources, and depth of services that make us a preeminent law firm.

Taft seeks a Lateral Conflicts Onboarding Coordinator to serve our Conflicts Team.

We are seeking a Lateral Conflicts Onboarding Coordinator to join our Conflicts Team. We are seeking a detail-oriented, highly organized, and positive individual to support our Lateral Conflicts Team in our Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Dayton, Denver, Detroit, Indianapolis or Minneapolis office. All Taft employees operate under a “Client First” philosophy – in all things, we seek to provide exceptional services to our clients.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Work collaboratively with Conflicts Counsel, Conflicts Attorneys, General Counsel, firm attorneys and the conflicts team to aid in the successful onboarding of lateral hire matters.
• Coordinate with lateral attorneys, legal assistants, and Lateral and New Business Conflicts teams to ensure the streamlined opening of all portable client and matter numbers.
• Serve as Conflicts Department primary contact point for new lateral attorneys and staff during onboarding.
• Meet with lateral attorneys and legal assistants to identify priority portable matters.
• Diagnose and address conflicts-related issues with new matter opening directly with lateral attorneys and support staff.
• Host Conflicts orientation sessions for new lateral attorneys and staff.
• Document department processes and procedures for searching lateral prior work history information and onboarding of laterals, including opening new billing numbers.
• Provide excellent customer service to internal teams, as well as lateral attorneys and staff.
• Define effective search strategies and conduct conflicts searches for new business and potential lateral matters using the firm’s internal electronic database.
• Draft and send internal and external communications regarding conflict search results and/or required follow-up actions.
• Must have ability and willingness to work remotely outside of normal business hours as needed.
  
  

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 2 years of experience working in a law firm conflicts department that utilizes Intapp (strongly preferred) or equivalent conflicts software.
• Working knowledge of professional responsibility and legal ethics rules pertaining to conflicts.
• Ability to efficiently manage multiple tasks and projects while providing an accurate work product in a high-volume, fast-paced work environment.
• Ability to think critically, independently and decisively.
• Ability to take initiative and adapt to changes in workflow, processes and procedures.
• Ability to work effectively in a team atmosphere.
• Strong interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to scale communications to all levels within the firm and translate complex issues into simple concepts.
  
  

Interested candidates should apply here.

Taft is an Equal Opportunity Employer. The information in this posting presents general duties, tasks, and responsibilities but is not intended to be an exhaustive listing. Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP participates in E-VERIFY.