Conflict-of-Interest Checker
When a new engagement is proposed, your agent scans the firm's entire client database, historical matters, personnel records, and partner relationships for potential conflicts. It flags direct conflicts, indirect conflicts, and appearance-of-conflict risks — before you commit. What used to take the conflicts committee 1-2 weeks now takes 2 hours.
Your conflicts committee is searching spreadsheets and asking around. That's not a system.
Conflict checks at most firms are manual. Someone searches the client database by name, maybe checks a spreadsheet, asks partners if they know the company. It takes 1-2 weeks, and it misses connections that aren't obvious — subsidiary relationships, former employees now at the opposing party, indirect conflicts through shared board members.
According to the ABA's 2024 Ethics Survey, 23% of malpractice claims at mid-size firms involve undiscovered conflicts. A single missed conflict can cost $500K-$5M in damages and lost reputation.
Every entity. Every connection. Every dimension. Searched in parallel.
The agent searches your current and historical client database across all matters and all parties. It checks personnel records — where partners and associates previously worked, their board memberships, and bar admissions. It queries corporate relationship databases for subsidiaries, parent companies, and joint ventures.
It cross-references the proposed client and all related entities against opposing party histories and partner personal disclosures — investments, family connections, outside affiliations. Every dimension, searched simultaneously.
Not a yes/no. A structured risk assessment your committee can act on.
The output is a three-tier classification. Direct conflicts — you currently represent the opposing party. Indirect conflicts — a partner's spouse works at the target company. Appearance risks — you represented a competitor on a similar matter 18 months ago.
Each flagged item includes the connection found, the risk level (high, medium, or low), the relevant ethical rule, and a suggested resolution — obtain consent, decline the engagement, or build an ethical wall.
2 hours instead of 2 weeks. Evidence instead of hunches.
The agent doesn't replace the conflicts committee — it does the research so the committee can make informed decisions in one meeting instead of three. Every connection is documented with a source reference, so the committee reviews evidence, not hunches.
No more delayed engagement starts while the committee waits for someone to finish searching. No more "we'll get to it next week." The research is done before the next partners' meeting.