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Practice and Firm Management

What Is a Conflict Check?

Searching a firm's records for relationships with a prospective client, opposing parties and related entities before taking on a new matter.

Legal Tech GlossaryBy The Circle Desk

Why It Matters

Conflict checks are a professional responsibility requirement and a bottleneck in new business intake. Tools that search names, corporate families and past matters quickly reduce both risk and delay.

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Related Terms

Legal intake
How requests reach a legal team, or how new clients reach a firm, ideally through one front door that captures the details and routes the request.
Legal CRM
Client relationship management software built for law firms, tracking contacts, referrals, pitches and business development activity.
Ethical walls
Restrictions that block certain lawyers and staff from accessing information about a matter, to manage a conflict of interest.

General information, not legal advice. Part of the Legal Tech Glossary, 173 terms in plain English.