Business Engagement Analyst

Summary

The Business Engagement Analyst is responsible for producing a variety of work product under the umbrella of Information Governance. Work product includes, but is not limited to, analyzing Outside Counsel Guidelines (OCG) requests in order to administer and process requests related to the Firm-wide OCG program, maintaining highly confidential and sensitive conflict information, assisting attorneys with the intake of new matters during the lateral onboarding process and the production of conflicts reports associated with new business, attorney and staff recruiting. The Analyst must be able to work effectively with a variety of law firm members, including firm counsel, conflicts counsel, numerous lawyers, paralegals, and staff members. In all situations, it is expected that the Analyst will maintain the highest levels of respect, confidentiality and professionalism in the execution of the responsibilities. All work product by the Analyst is guided by Information Governance principals in order to adhere to and meet firm standards.

This position reports to the Senior Business Engagement Manager.

Please submit your application by no later than 45 days following the posted date. Applications received after this date may not be considered.

Required Education & Experience

• College Degree or equivalent work experience.
• 4-5 years' law firm or conflicts management experience.
• Strong computer skills required.

Preferred Education & Experience

• Law Firm experience preferred.

Essential Functions

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Outside Counsel Guideline (50%)
  
  
  
  • Administer and process requests related to the Firm-wide Outside Counsel Guideline (OCG) program for Information Governance.
  • Analyze OCG requests from an IG perspective as it relates to new business including waiver letters, engagement letters and information retention/disposition.
  • Analyze OCG requests to determine what parent, affiliate and subsidiary companies are defined as the client for purposes of evaluating conflicts of interest and determine whether the client and firm agree to limit conflict analysis to particular entities for which the firm performs services.
  • Analyze OCG requests to determine if the client and firm agree that competitors of a firm client should have a conflict of interest search run and be entered into the firms related parties' database.
  • Assist Conflicts Counsel by maintaining the firms conflict waiver repository by entering, removing and updating entries as needed.
  • Collaborate with firm counsel, conflicts counsel, firm attorneys and firm administrators as needed.
  
  
  
  

• Conflicts Management (40%)
  
  
  
  • Collaborate with firm counsel, conflicts counsel and firm administrators to define the scope of confidential mergers, combinations, PLAF and new hire searches in addition to client matters.
  • Analyze information within requests from attorneys to determine how to extract the information from the related parties' database to produce the most accurate result set based on knowledge of data.
  • Analyzes final conflicts reports by making key decisions as to what parties may be producing false positives to assist the conflicts attorneys in conflicts clearance. Clears the false positives to provide accurate reporting.
  • Assist Firm Counsel by maintaining highly confidential and sensitive conflict information in the firm's Blackbook utilized by Firm Counsel to flag elevated risks of potential conflicts. Including adding, removing and updating entries as needed.
  • Assist attorneys during the lateral onboarding process by staging and/or creating new client matters.
  • Assist departing attorneys by preparing a list of client/matters the attorney billed to while at the firm. Including extracting related party information.
  
  
  
  

• Restricted Securities List (5%)
  
  
  
  • Assist Firm Counsel by maintaining the firms restricted securities lists used to evaluate whether a covered person has material information for a publicly-traded company for which the firm performs services. Including adding, removing and updating entries as needed.
  
  
  
  

• General and Administrative (5%)
  
  
  
  • Performs other duties as assigned.
  
  
  
  

Competencies

• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Self-motivated with excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Highly professional with a strong customer service orientation, commitment to meeting deadlines, and ability to multitask in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.
• Strong professional, independent thinking skills with strength in problem solving and the ability to offer constructive opinions and creative solutions.
• A team player who motivates and educates other team members.
• Regular and predictable attendance is an essential function of the position.

Supervisory Responsibility

This position has no supervisory responsibilities.

Travel

No travel is expected for this position.

Work Environment & Physical Demands

This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines. While performing the responsibilities of the position, these work environment characteristics are representative of the environment the person in this position will encounter. While performing the duties of this job, the employee will work in a professional, fast paced office environment that may require additional hours to complete work.

This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines. These physical demands are representative of the physical requirements necessary for an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the position. If an employee is unable to perform the essential functions of the position, Stinson LLP will evaluate whether a reasonable accommodation can be made to enable the employee to perform the described essential functions of the position. Generally, due to the nature of this office position, while performing the responsibilities of the position, the employee is required to talk and hear. The employee is often required to sit and use their hands and fingers, to handle or feel. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, reach with arms and hands, climb or balance, and to stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds, occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Vision abilities required by the job include close vision.

AAP/EEO Statement

Stinson LLP is an equal opportunity employer. We encourage qualified minority, female, veteran, disabled and other diverse candidates to apply and be considered for open positions. We offer a competitive compensation and benefits package.

Stinson LLP is a federal contractor. Information gathered through applicant Voluntary Self-Identification will be used periodically with various government agencies for statistical reporting and to measure the effectiveness of our Affirmative Action and EEO outreach efforts. All information is requested on a voluntary basis and will be kept confidential. We will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant.

Applicants with a disability that are in need of an accommodation to complete the Stinson LLP application process should contact Human Resources at 316.268.7962 or email Talent@stinson.com.

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