Crowell & Moring LLP/San Francisco, CA

Crowell & Moring LLP currently seeks a talented and experienced attorney to serve as a Conflicts Legal Advisor for our Conflicts department. In this role, you will be responsible for daily review and analysis of conflicts and other issues related to firm acceptance of new clients, new matters and lateral attorneys, and interface with the firm's Clearance Partners regarding approval of new matter and lateral attorney hiring requests. The Conflicts Legal Advisor will handle additional assignments from the firm's Professional Responsibility Counsel, the Committee on Professional Responsibility and firm administration, as needed.

Your responsibilities will be to:

Analyze conflict of interest reports for all new firm representations and lateral attorney hires to identify potential conflict problems.
Resolve conflict of interest issues (to include obtaining necessary waivers and drafting ethics wall memos) related to the firm's clearance of new clients, new matters and lateral attorneys.
Analyze information provided with new matter requests for compliance with firm policies and applicable rules of professional responsibility, and review and edit draft engagement letters for compliance with same.
Conduct orientation of staff and attorneys regarding new matter approval process.
Perform other duties as assigned.

The Conflicts Legal Advisor position requires a law degree and bar membership with a minimum of two years of practice experience as a lawyer in a mid-size to large law firm. Substantive experience in the area of conflict of interest law and/or professional responsibility is highly preferred. Operational and supervisory management experience desired.

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