Husch Blackwell

Director

• Directs and oversees the firm’s procedures for acceptance, review, negotiation, and documentation of Outside Counsel Guidelines.
• Coordinating with Conflicts Management, Business Intake, and other practice groups to coordinate engagement letters regarding new matter opening, maintenance of information within firm databases, review of Outside Counsel Guidelines, and coordination of client agreements documentation for the firm.
• Directly oversees the Client Agreements Manager and Senior Conflicts Manager of Special Projects, including supervision of attorney-level work product, review of legal analyses and recommendations, performance management, professional development, and alignment of legal judgment with firm risk tolerance and policy
• Facilitate escalation and resolution of complex or sensitive issues to firm leadership.
• Directs and oversees the conflicts and client agreements aspects of Requests for Production and Requests for Information, coordinating responses and providing support to client relationship managers in support of same.
• Partners closely with the Director of Conflicts to set strategy, priorities, and standards for the Conflicts department, including policy development, workflow optimization, quality control, and consistency of legal decision-making.
• Work closely with the Conflicts, Business Intake, and Client Data groups, to strategize and implement team structure, training, and policies to assist in meeting firm’s new business, conflicts, and client agreement goals.
• Partners closely with the Director of Conflicts to set strategy, priorities, and standards for the Conflicts department, including policy development, workflow optimization, quality control, and consistency of legal decision-making.
• Serve as a cross-functional and departmental leader on client agreement and new business conflicts questions, interacting with attorneys, staff and firm leadership on issues related to the firm’s conflicts process and related client agreement needs.
• Leads and supports training initiatives, including attorney education on client agreement issues, internal team training, and development of guidance materials, protocols, and best practices.
• Work with the Business Intake team to design a process for tracking receipt of engagement letters
• Other duties as assigned.

Associate Director – Client Agreements

Analyst

• Responsible for processing conflict searches for daily new client and new matter requests in a timely manner.
• Perform detailed corporate research using various search resources.
• Includes analysis, interpretation, and application of information via recent press releases and historical references to entities.
• Thorough review of Intapp Open workflow requests including detailed understanding of the submissions to ensure key information is included for appropriate processing.
• Provide detailed review of Conflict Results Report to identify true potential conflicts based on established team guidelines.
• When appropriate, conduct necessary research to determine materiality of potential conflicts.
• Research Conflicts Database and other firm documents to ensure appropriate conflicts resolution.
• Contact the appropriate request stakeholders in effort to clear potential conflicts.
• Communicate daily with the Manager regarding resolution of potential conflicts of interest or any areas of concern relevant to pending requests.
• Thoroughly document and organize documentation regarding the resolution of potential conflicts of interest.
• Maintain telephone and personal contact with attorneys and staff on conflict of interest matters.
• Track status of outstanding or on-going Work Flow requests.
• Handle special projects assigned by the Director of Conflicts Operations and Conflicts Managers.

Associate Director – Client Agreements

Conflicts Analyst