2nd year corporate associate in lateral process to different biglaw firm. First time filling this out and I'm not sure how detailed I need to be. It says to not provide any information that is privileged or otherwise confidential. Do I need to write the specific names of the agreements I worked on? Most if not all of those agreements state something along the lines of "this agreement shall be confidential information". How about clients and adverse parties?
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RedGiant
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Re: Filling out conflicts check
The other firm should have a form of what they need to know to run the conflict check, but if they don't simply make a chart which includes the following:
Party You Represented/Adverse Parties/Case or Transaction Name (you can be very generic here--anything from general company rep to financing, M&A, tech trans), dates of representation (usually month/YR to present, unless it's a deal that's over) and matter concluded (Y/N). If the adverse party was confidential or it was a beauty contest/confidential, leave it blank and let the new firm follow up with you.
Absolutely do not put what docs you worked on--way too detailed. Your new firm simply needs to understand if their client was the adverse party to put up an ethical wall.
Party You Represented/Adverse Parties/Case or Transaction Name (you can be very generic here--anything from general company rep to financing, M&A, tech trans), dates of representation (usually month/YR to present, unless it's a deal that's over) and matter concluded (Y/N). If the adverse party was confidential or it was a beauty contest/confidential, leave it blank and let the new firm follow up with you.
Absolutely do not put what docs you worked on--way too detailed. Your new firm simply needs to understand if their client was the adverse party to put up an ethical wall.
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Re: Filling out conflicts check
Thank you very much. This was quite helpful.RedGiant wrote:The other firm should have a form of what they need to know to run the conflict check, but if they don't simply make a chart which includes the following:
Party You Represented/Adverse Parties/Case or Transaction Name (you can be very generic here--anything from general company rep to financing, M&A, tech trans), dates of representation (usually month/YR to present, unless it's a deal that's over) and matter concluded (Y/N). If the adverse party was confidential or it was a beauty contest/confidential, leave it blank and let the new firm follow up with you.
Absolutely do not put what docs you worked on--way too detailed. Your new firm simply needs to understand if their client was the adverse party to put up an ethical wall.
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