Every SRA-regulated firm carries two heavy, public duties at once: anti-money-laundering supervision, and the Transparency Rules that govern what's on your website. FirmGuard handles the AML risk assessment, client due diligence, the Legal Sector Affinity Group policy pack, the SRA price-and-service disclosures and the training — so a small or sole practice meets both without a full-time compliance officer.
The legal sector's compliance load is unusually public. One duty is checkable from your homepage; the other is checkable from your matter files. FirmGuard covers both.
Since 2018, firms doing certain work must publish prices, the service, timescales and complaints information — and display the SRA's digital badge. The SRA actively sweeps firms' websites for compliance; gaps are visible to anyone, including the regulator.
Firm-wide risk assessment, client and matter risk assessment, CDD with sanctions and PEP screening, a compliant policy under the Legal Sector Affinity Group guidance, and ongoing training. The SRA's AML inspections find many firms' documents fall short.
AML supervision of ~60,000 legal and accountancy firms is consolidating under a single FCA-led regulator — sharper, more consistent inspection. Every firm has a reason to get its risk assessment, policies and file-level CDD in order now.
The same proven platform behind AgentGuard's AML and customer due-diligence product — pointed at the SRA rulebook, the LSAG guidance and the Transparency Rules.
We scan your firm's website against the SRA Transparency Rules — prices, service, timescales, complaints route, the SRA badge — and tell you exactly what's missing, then generate the compliant disclosures to publish.
Firm-wide and matter-level risk assessments, plus client due diligence built on AgentGuard's live engine: biometric ID validation — your client taps their passport with our app for an NFC chip read and a liveness check — and sanctions & PEP screening against daily-refreshed lists, every decision recorded and dated. Bank-grade verification at a fraction of the usual per-check price, because we already run it at scale.
Your AML policy, controls and procedures built to the Legal Sector Affinity Group template from your firm's profile, e-signed with an audit trail, and re-issued when guidance or your firm changes.
Short, quiz-checked modules for partners, fee-earners and support staff — CDD, recognising and reporting suspicious activity, sanctions — with certificates and team progress.
Risk assessments, CDD evidence, policy versions, screening results and training logs in one exportable pack — so an SRA AML visit or a file audit finds the evidence already assembled.
An optional verification page and embeddable badge showing your firm is SRA-regulated, AML-trained and transparent — reassurance for clients choosing a firm and for referrers who send you work.
FirmGuard is built for small and mid-sized law firms and conveyancing practices — the ones who carry the same SRA and AML obligations as the City firms but without a dedicated COLP, MLRO support team or compliance budget. The cost of an SRA finding, a fine, or a struck-off file is far higher than the cost of having the evidence ready.
FirmGuard provides compliance tools and content; it is not a law firm, the SRA, or your AML supervisor, and does not provide legal advice. Generated risk assessments, policies, disclosures, screening results and training records help you meet and evidence your obligations under the SRA Standards & Regulations, the Transparency Rules and the Money Laundering Regulations 2017 — they support, but do not replace, the firm's own legal responsibility.