Access Legal: AML update – the focus on AML is going nowhere anytime soon!

Our latest quarterly update webinar started with a view of the current anti-money laundering landscape.

Law firms must review compliance gaps, as many firms choose hybrid long-term

Law firms have a duty to make sure compliance is watertight. There has been a lot of disruption and change in the past 18 months to the way firms work and we know time has always been a constraint for legal practitioners and those who look after compliance within a law firm.

Access Legal webinar: AML update – are you keeping up to date?

Access Legal’s latest quarterly AML update webinar is being held on 14 October 2021 at 12.30pm, and as usual we will be joined by Bill Jones, a financial crime specialist.

Double appointments at Access Legal as part of customer-first focus

Access Legal has announced two more senior appointments as the law technology division of The Access Group further strengthens its customer-first focus.

Access Legal: How law firms can keep clients and keep them happy

A set of legal industry experts assemble to pinpoint issues that block firms from creating the customer-for-life – exploring themes of culture, customer experience and data.

Access Legal: Empower your firm for success

Access All Areas is back and it’s bigger and better than ever! Don’t miss your chance to hear from legal industry experts covering such topics as:

Access Legal webinar: Equality, diversity and inclusion update 2021

For some firms, equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) has taken a back seat as a consequence of the Covid-19 lockdowns, but now that things are getting back to some semblance of normality it is important that all firms ensure their EDI policies and procedures are fit for purpose and operate effectively on a day-to-day basis, especially in relation to sexual harassment.

Access Legal: Legal compliance update – August 2021

Another five firms have been fined for AML breaches, which follows on the heels of six that were recently fined £800 each with £600 costs; it is of note that two of these firms held the CQS accreditation and another two held the Lexcel accreditation; I hope they notified the Law Society in line with the Scheme Rules.

Access Legal research highlights hybrid working compliance gaps

Access Legal has released new research that is encouraging law firms to review gaps in their compliance, given over two-thirds plan to switch to a permanent hybrid way of working once restrictions ease.

Access Legal webinar: Are you keeping eye on anti-money laundering landscape?

Our next quarterly AML update webinar will be held at 12.30pm on 21 July 2021, and as usual will take the form of a conversation between Brian Rogers, our Regulatory Director, and Bill Jones, an AML and financial crime specialist.