Conflicts Attorney

About the Role — 100 % Remote Conflicts Attorney

This is a senior-level legal conflicts and risk management role supporting Milbank’s global conflicts function and working closely with the Office of General Counsel. The attorney will primarily handle conflicts analysis for new business, lateral hires, and complex matters, while advising partners and attorneys on ethical and business conflicts.

Key responsibilities include:

• Reviewing and analyzing complex conflict reports and identifying potential legal/ethical issues.
• Advising partners and attorneys on conflict resolution and appropriate courses of action.
• Drafting and obtaining conflict waivers.
• Creating and implementing ethical walls/screens, including screening memoranda.
• Reviewing lateral attorney and matter lists for potential conflicts.
• Conducting corporate family-tree research and conflict searches.
• Researching applicable ethics rules, opinions, and case law.
• Reviewing candidate conflicts questionnaires for lateral hires.
• Guiding Conflicts Analysts on best practices, research, matter maintenance, and conflict-report preparation.
• Maintaining detailed documentation of conflict-resolution steps.
• Supporting urgent matters and participating in an occasional on-call rotation, including some evenings, weekends, and holidays.

The position can be fully remote, with flexibility to visit an office for training and team meetings. The East Coast shift time for the role is 4 PM to 12 PM EST and West Coast is 1 PM to 9 PM PST.