Overview :

McGuireWoods LLP has an opening for a Conflicts Assistant in our Richmond, VA office. The assistant handles all aspects of the conflicts search process for the firm.

The idealcandidate will haveone to two years of law firm experience, proven customer service skills, research skills, andan eye for detail and accuracy.

McGuireWoods, one of the world's leading law firms, has provided legal solutions to corporate, individual and nonprofit clients since 1834.

Diversity and inclusion are essential to how we do business, informing how we recruit, retain and promote lawyers and staff to serve clients.

Along with excellent benefits, McGuireWoods offers most employees a hybrid remote option allowing flexibility and work-life balance.

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Responsibilities :

• Answers questions and provides excellent customer service to the attorneys and legal staff regarding conflicts and new client / matter intake procedures.
• Ensures proper submission of conflicts data on conflicts request forms.
• Conducts thorough and accurate searches of companies, agencies and individuals listed as parties to new business, add-party, matter re-open, and information-only conflicts checks, as well as hire requests, using the Elegrity conflicts software.
• Submits conflicts search results for clients, principals and related party names to the conflicts analysts and the requesting attorneys.
• Performs corporate affiliate research via a variety of reference programs (e.g., D&B Family Tree, business reference website and corporate / agency websites).

Qualifications :

Requires associate's degree (bachelor's degree preferred); or one to two years related experience and / or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Law firm experience helpful.

• Excellent administrative and organizational skills with attention to detail.
• Experience providingcustomer service in a professional services environment and the capability to interact with all levels ofFirm personnel.
• Experience with general office applications to include Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

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Last updated : 2024-07-11