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Your law firm has just passed its annual audit. Your compliance manuals are pristine, your policies are comprehensive. But then two months later, a significant client claim lands on your desk – and you trace the cause back to a procedural error that resulted from incorrectly following a key process. How can this have happened so soon after a successful audit?
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AI Governance for Law Firms | Managing AI Risk & SRA Compliance

Your law firm has just passed its annual audit. Your compliance manuals are pristine, your policies are comprehensive. But then two months later, a significant client claim lands on your desk – and you trace the cause back to a procedural error that resulted from incorrectly following a key process. How can this have happened so soon after a successful audit?

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The SRA has refreshed its AML and sanctions guidance. Find out what has changed and the practical steps law firms should take to review their compliance framework.

SRA Refreshes AML and Sanctions Guidance: What Law Firms Need to Know

The SRA has updated its AML and sanctions guidance, reinforcing the links between firm-wide risk assessments, client due diligence, sanctions screening and ongoing monitoring. We look at what the changes mean in practice and the steps law firms should consider to ensure their compliance framework remains effective.

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Your law firm has just passed its annual audit. Your compliance manuals are pristine, your policies are comprehensive. But then two months later, a significant client claim lands on your desk – and you trace the cause back to a procedural error that resulted from incorrectly following a key process. How can this have happened so soon after a successful audit?

AI Governance for Law Firms | Managing AI Risk & SRA Compliance

Your law firm has just passed its annual audit. Your compliance manuals are pristine, your policies are comprehensive.

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What does the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 mean for law firms? Practical guidance for COLPs on complaints procedures, subject access requests, data governance and compliance readiness.

The Data (Use and Access) Act 2025: What Law Firms Need to Know

Are your firm's data protection policies ready for the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025? This practical guide highlights the key changes affecting law firms and outlines the actions COLPs should take to strengthen complaints handling, SAR procedures and compliance governance.

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Onboarding a new law firm to your panel is one of the most business-critical decisions insurers can make. Get it right, and you have a reliable, profitable partner. Get it wrong, and you may have imported significant financial and reputational risk into your own business.

What does "good" look like in a pre-panel check?

Onboarding a new law firm to your panel is one of the most business-critical decisions insurers can make.

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A yearly compliance audit is like an annual physical. It's a useful snapshot of how you're doing on the day – but it might not reveal recurring issues

Beyond box-ticking: ongoing monitoring for compliance health

A yearly compliance audit is like an annual physical. It's a useful snapshot of how you're doing on the day – but it might not reveal recurring issues.

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If you've had to settle a claim due to a compliance failure, you'll be well aware that it can be a costly business. But unfortunately, the headline cost of a claim, however punishing, only represents a portion of the total cost to your firm – and in many cases, it may only be the tip of a substantial iceberg. For every pound of direct, visible loss, there are multiple costs lurking below the surface – eroding profitability and damaging your business. These costs fall into three main categories.

How the hidden costs of poor compliance stack up

If you've had to settle a claim due to a compliance failure, you'll be well aware that it can be a costly business.

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Law firms
Your law firm has just passed its annual audit. Your compliance manuals are pristine, your policies are comprehensive. But then two months later, a significant client claim lands on your desk – and you trace the cause back to a procedural error that resulted from incorrectly following a key process. How can this have happened so soon after a successful audit?

Bridging the compliance gap: from policy to practice

Your law firm has just passed its annual audit. Your compliance manuals are pristine, your policies are comprehensive.

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