Legal Risk Analyst

Dentons is the world's largest law firm, renowned for its commitment to delivering innovative legal solutions to clients around the globe. With offices in over 160 countries and a team of legal professionals dedicated to excellence, Dentons offers a dynamic and inclusive work environment. 

Dentons Business Services EMEA:  

Dentons Business Services EMEA is the operational backbone of Dentons, supporting the world's largest law firm in delivering exceptional service to clients across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. As a crucial component of Dentons' global network, our EMEA business services team plays a key role in driving efficiency, innovation, and collaboration. 

At Dentons Business Services EMEA, we are committed to excellence in supporting legal professionals with cutting-edge solutions. Our dynamic and diverse team collaborates seamlessly to provide a wide range of services, including finance, IT, human resources, marketing, and more. We pride ourselves on fostering a culture of continuous improvement and adaptability. 

Purpose:

The purpose of this role is to support the business in assessing new requests (being new clients and/or new business with existing clients) from a conflict and compliance point of view using Dentons’ and third-party research databases.

Responsibilities:

• Review intake request to ensure completeness of information regarding the matter for the new or existing client;
• Conduct research on new intake requests against Dentons’ conflicts database and other resources;
• Data entry, search, and analysis of data into the Dentons’ conflicts and new matter intake systems in accordance with Dentons’ policies and procedures;
• Conduct research via external sources to establish corporate structures and management profiles;
• Verifying that all conflicts checks are complete, consistent, and accurate and adhere to established standards and procedures for all conflicts of interest searches performed Firm-wide;
• Reaching out to other Dentons regions to obtain conflict clearances across Dentons worldwide;
• Follow-up on conflict issues with the appropriate stakeholders. ;
• Perform data analysis and identify possible issues and notify the requesting attorney or other appropriate party as needed;
• As and when required, conducting anti-money laundering refresh of due diligence for existing clients;
• Identification and escalation of sanctions and reputational issues;
• Identification and resolution of legal and commercial conflict issues in accordance with Firm policies and local regulatory requirements;
• Identify and escalate conflicts and unresolved issues to the Team Leaders and when relevant to the Process Owner, Risk Manager, requesting attorney or Office of General Counsel;
• Assist the department with a wide range of research and other requests as may be assigned;
• Contribute to process, procedure, and technology improvements to ensure process efficiency;
• Coordinate with other Analysts and other team members in order to meet deadlines, time-sensitive issues and other challenges.
• Identifying and resolving confidential information issues, implementing information barriers and document security processes;
• Reviewing engagement letters, outside counsel terms and other engagement terms/contracts; and
• Perform investigation and analysis of challenging cases, either on an individual customer level or across a specific segment or customer type.

Qualifications, skills, and experiences:

• Bachelor’s degree, legal education is a plus;
• Fluency in English written and spoken (preferably C1 or higher), is essential as this is an international role requiring communication across multiple countries and units;
• Prior experience in analyzing and resolving risk requests and managing confidential information issues;
• Knowledge of process of conflicts checks in legal firm is desirable;
• Strong communication skills, dealing confidently, competently, and diplomatically with internal clients worldwide, persuasively communicating the Risk position in writing as well as by telephone and providing clear and unambiguous instructions;
• Strong analytical skills, with ability to quickly identify and meticulously analyses complex issues and provide practical solutions;
• Ability to comprehend the commercial concerns arising from the underlying advice provided by a global law firm;
• Methodical and organized approach to work and strong prioritization skills, with ability to work efficiently under pressure, priorities and deliver work to a consistently high standard and to deadlines;
• Ability to make decisions and remain calm while under pressure, particularly when dealing with challenging situations;
• Strong commitment to excellent internal client/customer facing service, being professional in outlook and attitude and serve as an ambassador for Risk Europe;
• Ability to work as part of an international multicultural environment.