Governance rooted in your policies
600+ law firms trust Legl
Why firms are building a governance layer in Legl
Personalised
Risk Agents understand your firm’s policies and are grounded in your risk appetite.
Fewer touchpoints
Gathering, parsing and structuring of data is carried automatically.
Automated remediation
Cut the back-and-forth with clients and get the information you need that conforms to policy.
Radically faster
Power real automation across the firm using agents that understand your policies.
Trusted by 600+ law firms across the UK and Australia
What stood out about Legl was the ability to bring identity verification, risk assessments, ongoing monitoring and compliance oversight together in one place, in a way that is practical for our lawyers and clients to work with day to day.
Ashley Lamb
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CEO
I have more comfort that I know exactly where we are with firm-wide risk and I am able to prove my conclusions based on the overall view I get in the platform of how many high risk clients or matters we are working with at any given time.
Helen Strachan
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Practice Director & MLRO
We can act much more appropriately to risk. We can quickly see when additional enhanced due diligence or source of wealth checks might be needed, but we can also avoid overdoing things when the additional information we have shows that residual risk is actually lower.
Helen Strachan
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Practice Director & MLRO
We really like the platform, it's very easy to use and Legl's team is so responsive. Legl so clearly understands the risk assessment process, what law firms need to go through and how to make our lives more efficient.
Mel Lawrence
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Partner
It's not about monitoring every transaction daily. It's about having the visibility to catch problems before they become serious, and the audit trail to demonstrate that the firm's processes are robust when regulators ask. It's about 'exception reporting' and not 'everything reporting'
Will Taylor
,
CFO / COO
Scalable and consistent processes firm-wide
Risk agents accelerate information gathering
Remove the human effort and back-and-forth to collect, parse and structure information and documents. Agents execute processes based on your firm’s risk policies and risk appetite.
Remediation that happens automatically
Where there are non-conformities, such as clients supplying incorrect information, remediation happens directly with the client in real-time.
Get decision-ready outputs
Get your teams focused on the highest leverage tasks through automatic escalation channels and surfacing of decision-ready information.
Frequently asked questions
What is a governance layer?
It's the layer that sits between your firm-wide risk policies and appetite and your day-to-day processes across onboarding, AML, payments and more. A governance layer ensures the policies unique to your firm are actually applied to every client consistently. Through the deep configuration available, to the ability to set up your firm's Risk Rules, Legl ensures that your requirements are applied across the firm, and you get a defensible record of how each client was assessed and why.
How can my firm set up Risk Rules?
Legl provides a white-glove service to help your firm align your policies into practice. We use your firm-wide risk policies to identify risk rules which are approved by you before the go-live. We can also support firms through questionnaires to develop risk rules together if preferred - and if you're short on time, there's a strong default rule set drawn from what firms' policies most commonly require that you can start with and tailor later.
Can I build a custom Risk Assessment?
Yes you can set up your firm's own risk assessment templates, or you have access to SRA templates out-the-box with Legl. Admins can build risk assessments in Legl using your existing risk assessment form and scoring logic as the basis: your questions, your sections, your conditional logic, your helper text, and your own mapping of answers to risk ratings. You can have separate client and matter templates, or assess both together in one.
Can I restrict what information certain team members can see in Legl?
Yes, at several levels. Admins set permissions per user across different parts of Legl's platform. Workflows can be restricted so only chosen departments see them. Where a firm needs stronger separation, there are further routes e.g. department permissions to keep a contact's onboarding results visible only to the acting department and compliance. Admins keep full visibility throughout. Single sign-on is supported for firms managing access through their own identity provider.
Is Legl configurable to my firm's risk policy?
Yes this is the core foundation of Legl's platform. Whether you're creating department specific client onboarding workflows, or selecting the company screening settings, or configuring your risk assessment, you have the ability to deeply configure Legl's platform with your firm's risk requirements. Legl gives you the checks, the automation and the audit trail. The policy behind them stays yours, and the compliance decisions remain your firm's responsibility.