Conflict checks complete across the firm and the matter history.
The law-firm Conflicts Officer is accountable to the Model Rules of Professional Conduct (Rule 1.7, 1.9, 1.10, 1.18) and equivalent jurisdictional rules. Every new matter, every lateral hire, every secondment, every M&A engagement triggers a conflicts run that has to reach across the entire firm's matter history, parties, related entities, and engagement letters. Miss one, and the firm faces disqualification, malpractice, or worse.
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"Conflict checks have to be complete across every matter we have ever taken. Lateral hires multiply the surface."
"Conflict checks have to be complete across every matter we have ever taken. Lateral hires multiply the surface. We are one missed match away from disqualification." — Conflicts Officer, AmLaw 100 firm
What TeamSync gives the conflicts officer.
1. Firm matter database as a TeamSync structured corpus.
Every matter, every party, every related entity, every engagement letter modelled as TeamSync structured documents. Entity-resolution applied across name variants, corporate-family hierarchies, and historical relationships.
2. Semantic + entity-resolved search across the firm.
Semantic Search augments name-match conflict search with semantic similarity (typo, alias, foreign-language variant) and entity-graph traversal (subsidiary, parent, joint-venture, beneficial owner). False-negatives drop.
3. DocuTalk grounds the conflicts conversation.
DocuTalk returns the conflicts-relevant context: matters with this party, prior representations of related parties, engagement-letter scope, status of the prior matter. The conflicts memo writes itself from cited evidence.
4. Information barriers enforced via RBAC.
RBAC + Backup implements ethical walls. Lateral-hire screens, M&A side-of-deal walls, government-contractor walls — modelled with audit. Wall breaches blocked at the platform, not just at the policy.
5. Audit ledger anchors every conflicts decision.
Conflicts run, conflicts memo, waiver request, waiver grant, wall implementation — anchored in the Merkle audit ledger. Bar-counsel inquiry or malpractice claim defended from cryptographic evidence.
What changes for the conflicts officer.
| Concern | What changes |
|---|---|
| Conflicts-check completeness | Higher recall via semantic + graph |
| Conflicts-memo turn-around | Hours, not days |
| Lateral-hire screen creation | Templated, not bespoke |
| Information-barrier enforcement | At the platform, not at the policy |
| Bar-counsel / malpractice defensibility | Cryptographic audit |
Compliance frameworks served.
| Framework | Coverage |
|---|---|
| ABA Model Rules 1.7, 1.9, 1.10, 1.18 | Conflicts of interest |
| State bar rules | Per-jurisdiction conflicts rules |
| Solicitors Regulation Authority (UK) | England & Wales conflicts rules |
| Information-barrier guidance | Bar opinions per jurisdiction |
| SOC 2, ISO 27001 | Cross-vertical |
How TeamSync compares for conflicts.
| Capability | TeamSync | Intapp Conflicts | iManage Risk Intelligence | Aderant Conflicts | Litera Conflicts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Firm matter database as searchable corpus | ✅ | Intapp | iManage | Aderant | Litera |
| Semantic + entity-resolved conflict search | ✅ | Intapp Walls | iManage RAVN | Limited | Limited |
| Information-barrier enforcement at platform | ✅ | Intapp Walls | iManage | Aderant | Litera |
| Cryptographic audit on conflicts decisions | ✅ Merkle | Standard log | Standard log | Standard log | Standard log |
| Permissions-aware AI grounded in matter history | ✅ DocuTalk | Limited | iManage AI | Limited | Limited |
Important: TeamSync coexists with Intapp and iManage — the dominant law-firm risk and DMS platforms. entry point for TeamSync: firms wanting a permissions-aware AI layer over the matter corpus + cryptographic audit on conflicts decisions, alongside their existing Intapp / iManage investment.
CTAs.
| If you are… | Do this |
|---|---|
| Conflicts Officer | Talk to a solutions engineer |
| Risk Partner | Read the professional-services knowledge-network use case |
| Managing Partner | Read the managing partner page |
| eDiscovery Counsel | Read the eDiscovery counsel page |