Serve as the primary operational and revenue-management contact for assigned partners, practice groups, clients, client administration teams, and accounting stakeholders.
Locations (2)
Houston, Texas, United States
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Compensation
Salary : 125 -145K - Houston TX
Salary : 130-160K - Washington DC
Responsibilities
Serve as the primary operational and revenue-management contact for assigned partners, practice groups, clients, client administration teams, and accounting stakeholders.
Build trusted relationships with partners and clients while maintaining clear communication and proactively moving outstanding matters toward resolution.
Manage the client and matter lifecycle, including new business intake, matter openings, billing arrangements, rates, pricing, engagement letters, KYC, conflicts, and Outside Counsel Guidelines.
Coordinate across Client Accounting, Conflicts, legal counsel, KYC, billing, collections, pricing, and other internal teams to keep onboarding and administrative processes moving.
Prepare clear summaries, reporting, and analysis covering client onboarding, billing activity, collections, and financial performance.
The Compliance Attorney plays a critical role in protecting the firm and its clients by analyzing and resolving conflicts of interest, identifying potential ethical and business risks and ensuring compliance with professional responsibility rules and firm policies.
Compensation
The expected salary range for this position is $130,000 - $160,000. Final compensation will be determined based on several factors, including but not limited to, relevant experience, qualifications, skill set, and geographic location.
Responsibilities
Collaborate with the Office of General Counsel, Risk Management Department, Conflicts and New Business teams and Information Security team to manage conflicts of interest, ethical and business risks, and ensure compliance with applicable ethical rules and firm policies.
Conduct conflict searches; identify, analyze and propose resolutions of conflicts of interest and other ethical and business risks; support the efficient opening of new clients/matters and the onboarding of new lateral partners.
Draft, review and negotiate Outside Counsel Guidelines, engagement agreements and conflict waivers with firm partners, clients and vendors, while ensuring compliance with ethical rules and firm policies.
Liaise with key internal stakeholders and provide clear and concise information under strict deadlines.
Meet established productivity and accuracy targets while handling a high volume of workload.
Requirements
Bachelor's degree
Juris Doctorate
active law license in good standing in at least one state