Highlights
Partners with the Lead Conflicts Partner [or Director of Conflicts depending on further restructuring] and Conflicts Attorneys regarding complex conflicts matters, operational challenges, and departmental initiatives. The position oversees departmental workflow, staffing, performance management, training, quality assurance, resource allocation, and operational planning to ensure the timely and accurate delivery of conflicts services.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Kansas City, MO (Remote) |
| Industry | Legal Services |
| Company Size | 1,500 to 1,999 employees |
| Year Founded | 1979 |
| Website | http://lewisbrisbois.com/ |
Description
Overview
The offices of Lewis Brisbois, a full-service AmLaw 100 firm, are seeking a Conflicts Manager to become part of our national Conflicts Department. The primary responsibilities of this position include but are not limited to, the overall management, administration, and operational leadership of the Conflicts Department. The position oversees departmental workflow, staffing, performance management, training, quality assurance, resource allocation, and operational planning to ensure the timely and accurate delivery of conflicts services. exercises independent judgment and discretion in managing departmental operations, personnel matters, workflow prioritization, policy implementation, and process improvement initiatives. The position works closely with the Director of Conflicts, Conflicts Attorneys, Firm management, and other administrative departments to support the Firm''s business objectives while ensuring compliance with Firm policies and ethical obligations. This position is hybrid; fully remote opportunities are available.
Lewis Brisbois offers a full suite of benefits including 401k with employer match, as well as sick and vacation time. We also offer excellent opportunities for growth and advancement while working with a collaborative team.
Responsibilities
Responsibilities/Requirements:
- Oversees the day-to-day operations of the Conflicts Department, ensuring the timely and accurate completion of conflicts requests and related services
- Directly supervises the Conflicts Supervisor and other assigned personnel, including coaching, mentoring, employee development, and performance management.
- Participates in the recruiting and hiring process as well as employment related decisions
- Oversees employee timesheets, PTO requests, coverage and departmental resource assignments
- Partners with the Lead Conflicts Partner [or Director of Conflicts depending on further restructuring] and Conflicts Attorneys regarding complex conflicts matters, operational challenges, and departmental initiatives.
- Requires advanced knowledge of law firm conflicts processes, new matter intake procedures, conflict clearance workflows, and risk management principles.
- Requires demonstrated leadership and personnel management skills, including employee coaching, development, mentoring, and performance management.
- Bachelor''s degree or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
- Minimum seven (7) years of law firm conflicts experience.
- Minimum three (3) years of supervisory, management, or leadership experience.
- Experience utilizing Intapp, Aderant, or other law firm conflicts and intake systems.
Lewis Brisbois is not accepting search firm submissions for this position.
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About Company
Our national practice is sophisticated, multi-faceted and well-versed in current legal trends, while our individual state practices provide vast resources and knowledge of procedural and legal nuances. Lewis Brisbois offers legal practice in more than 35 specialties, and a multitude of sub-specialties associated with each practice area. Our attorneys have broad knowledge, expertise, and sensitivity to their clients’ unique needs. Through interaction among its practice groups, Lewis Brisbois provides a wide range of legal services to each client with a continuity of representation over multiple disciplines. We have built longstanding relationships with corporate and institutional clients based on our ability to provide comprehensive service on a national scale.
At Lewis Brisbois, diversity is an integral part of our firm culture and our daily life. We accomplish diversity not by committee or initiative, but through the true and committed practice of hiring the best people for the job and consistently rewarding excellence. The success of these policies is reflected in the fact that Lewis Brisbois has repeatedly received national recognition for its commitment to embracing diversity. Lewis Brisbois is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse group of talented lawyers and staff, and demonstrates that commitment through non-discriminatory hiring, retention and promotion policies. The diversity of the firm’s client base is matched by the diversity of our attorneys.
With offices from Los Angeles to New York, our attorneys reflect the communities in which they live. The firm’s culture has fostered a diverse group of professionals committed to promoting the best interests of our clients, our communities and the legal profession. We are committed to supporting diversity through new and ongoing relationships with minority and women-owned businesses.
Lewis Brisbois is known for its commitment to principled advocacy, an unflinching work ethic, and unyielding recognition of our duty to provide the highest level of service to our clients, who choose us because we take the time to understand their business interests and philosophies. We have developed sophisticated proprietary risk evaluation and litigation management processes that many of our clients have incorporated into their business practices, and we help them manage and defend claims and litigation. As a result, they are avoiding and reducing losses that impact their bottom line.
Our practice includes pre-suit counseling and problem solving based on a structured and accurate analysis of likely outcome. We know our clients’ objectives are often best served by a pre-suit resolution, and we are often judged by the advice and counsel we provide toward that end. However, when trial is the answer and in the client’s best interest, no law firm in this country understands and better executes a trial strategy than Lewis Brisbois. We are truly client driven and result oriented.