Lateral Analyst

About the role

You will primarily be responsible for assisting Clyde & Co with the highly confidential conflicts and compliance checks of potential new joiners, with an emphasis on the firm's North American region. This covers recruiting for all of the firm's position types (where fee earning candidates are most commonly referred to as "laterals"). This not only covers individual new hires but also involves larger group acquisitions. You will keep in contact with HR and other firm leaders on the ever-evolving statuses of candidates under consideration. You will update and maintain records for your region on a global spreadsheet shared internally among BAU and Risk as well as within Intapp Open. This includes but is not limited to updating records to reflect when a candidate is no longer under consideration. You will perform conflicts checks according to the firm's global and regional policies on rules of professional conduct, sanctions, and anti-money laundering. You will perform the necessary analysis, reporting, and summarizing, with supplementation efforts varying on a case by case basis. Routine tasks include running preliminary checks on candidates' client lists and performing full searching on all parties involved in candidates' open matters as well as those closed within the last five years. Upon the joining of new hires, you will liaise with project teams comprised of representatives from multiple departments to successfully on-board the laterals you searched prior to their arrival. This includes sheparding their portable work through and serving as a resource for their ongoing BAU training needs. You will also be responsible for performing ethical wall/information barrier/matter access restrictions attendant to the joining of lateral hires. To the extent you have capacity, you will likely be asked to help with special projects; conflicts searches needed for marketing/business development purposes; and the conflicts and compliance checks associated with the existing partnership's generation of new business. You may also be asked to help process laterals from other firm regions. Structure You will be part of the global Conflicts & Compliance BAU Team, reporting regionally to the Head of BAU, North America. The BAU Team consists of a Global Head; a North American Regional Head; Team Leaders; Lawyers/Counsel; Senior Analysts; Analysts; and Assistants. The BAU works very closely with the firm's Risk Department, including its AML & Sanctions Lawyers and paralegals; General Counsel(s); and Risk Managers. Main Responsibilities Specific to the processing of lateral candidates: Reviewing relevant documentation for North American applicants under consideration, including CVs, top clients lists; conflict of interest forms, and matter/party spreadsheets. Sorting, filtering, and uploading all names from the applicant's documentation into Intapp Open for searching, applying firm policy and procedure regarding codings of each category of information. Specifying within Intapp Open search records identifying details of the candidate, visible to BAU/Risk only, including warnings regarding confidentiality. Apprising Risk early in the process if the candidate's documentation appears significantly lacking in sufficient information or detail. Immediately locating any same-case involvement between the candidate and Clyde. Breaking down search terms uploaded and performing corporate family tree research where necessary; running conflicts searches against the names uploaded; and selecting relevant results to appear in reports according to current lateral policy then summarizing same. Keeping interested parties apprised of status and attending routine status meetings. Updating firm records throughout the life of the candidacy to reflect whether someone has ultimately joined or not. Running as many supplemental conflicts checks as are necessary based on the candidate's potential supplemental disclosures. Identifying when turnaround deadlines are not practical considering current workload and suggesting risk-based, candidate-specific tailored approaches to particular lateral handling if appropriate. Helping get a candidate's portable work pre-conflicts cleared prior to their firm arrival. Serving as a department liaison during the on-boarding transition phase to the candidate and other departments, helping ensure all cleared matters are opened upon arrival. Providing Intapp training to the new joiner once here on proper conflicts submission for ongoing work. Creating ethical wall/information barrier/matter access restrictions according to Risk's clearance instructions upon the new joiner's employee account being created in our systems. Running conflicts for process laterals from other firm regions on an as-needed basis. To the extent you have capacity, you will likely be asked to help with special projects; covering the general department inbox and helpline; providing coverage of queues to team-members away from th

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