Compliance management for England & Wales law firms
JurisIT's Compliance Management service takes the burden of tracking your firm's regulatory and professional obligations off your COLP, COFA, and principals and onto a system — a proactive calendar that tells you when returns are due, when reviews need to happen, and when something needs attention, across every compliance domain your firm carries.
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One Calendar, Every Obligation
AML, data protection, SRA requirements, and accreditation — tracked together, not in separate systems nobody fully trusts.
Proactive, Not Reactive
You hear about a deadline before it's urgent — not after it's missed.
Sees Across Every Silo
We understand how your obligations interact — not just one department's slice of them.
A system problem, not a checklist problem
A small firm's COLP, COFA, or principal is usually doing compliance alongside everything else, without a maintained register or a calendar anyone fully trusts. That works until it doesn't: an AML training record nobody can locate, a Lexcel renewal that catches the firm by surprise, or a data subject access request that runs past its deadline because nobody knew the clock had started.
The obligations don't sit in one silo. A single matter can touch SRA conduct requirements, AML regulations, UK GDPR, and a quality accreditation requirement all at once — which is exactly why a purely technical fix or a purely legal one misses the point. JurisIT sits across that interplay: we see how the obligations connect, and we build the system that tracks all of them together, rather than treating each as someone else's separate problem.
Everything in the service
- Compliance Domain Mapping — your firm's specific obligations identified and organised into a structured register: legislation or standard, regulator, responsible officer, and review frequency for each.
- The Proactive Compliance Calendar — the centrepiece of the service. Returns, renewals, reviews, training, and reporting deadlines tracked automatically, with advance notice before anything becomes urgent — across AML, data protection, conduct, and accreditation together.
- AML Compliance Tracking — firm-wide and matter-level risk assessments, customer due diligence status, training records, and the reporting structure around your MLCO and MLRO, tracked on the same calendar as everything else.
- Data Protection Tracking — UK GDPR and Data Protection Act obligations tracked alongside your records of processing activity and data breach response readiness, so a notification clock starting is never a surprise.
- SRA & Conduct Tracking — practising certificate renewals, continuing competence requirements, and reporting obligations tracked against their actual deadlines, not estimated ones.
- Accreditation Support — Lexcel and CQS renewal cycles, required training topics, and audit preparation tracked on the same calendar, rather than as a separate scramble every renewal period.
- Compliance Evidence on Demand — when an insurer, auditor, or the SRA asks 'can you show us', the register and calendar are the answer — not a scramble to reconstruct what happened and when.
Where this sits next to Cybersecurity Uplift
These are two different vantage points on related ground, not overlapping services. Cybersecurity Uplift is the technical answer: is multi-factor authentication actually rolled out, are Microsoft 365 retention labels actually configured, is the standard (NCSC Cyber Essentials, in the UK) actually implemented in your infrastructure — set up correctly in the first place by someone who understands the underlying regulatory requirement, and continually monitored for drift away from that standard.
Compliance Management is the governance answer sitting above it: does the obligation exist, is it being met on an ongoing basis, is it evidenced, and does someone know when it's due for review. Cyber Essentials is the clearest example of the boundary — Cybersecurity Uplift implements and monitors it technically; Compliance Management tracks that it exists, evidences it for an insurer or the SRA, and flags when recertification is due. Firms working with us on both get the technical control and the governance record of that control, from one team that sees how they connect — see Cybersecurity Uplift.
What this is not
This is a tracking, organisation, and evidencing service — not legal advice. We help your firm know what's due, when, and to whom, and we keep the record that proves it happened. Decisions about how to meet a specific obligation, and advice on its substance, sit with your firm's own professional judgement, your COLP/COFA, or with a specialist in that domain.
Some compliance areas sit outside what JurisIT tracks directly and are better handled by a specialist: client account and accounts rules compliance is a job for your accounts software provider or external auditor; employment law obligations are a job for an employment law specialist; financial crime and sanctions specifics beyond standard AML screening are a job for a specialist in that area; and professional indemnity insurance terms are a conversation with your broker or insurer. Where these come up in the course of our work with you, we'll flag them — we just won't be the ones advising on them.
A five-stage process
- Assessment — we map your firm's actual compliance domains against the relevant frameworks and identify what's currently tracked, partially tracked, or not tracked at all.
- Build — the compliance register and calendar are configured to your firm's specific obligations and responsible officers.
- Onboarding — your team, including your COLP and COFA, is shown how the calendar works and who gets notified for what.
- Go-live — the calendar starts running, with notice periods set ahead of actual deadlines.
- Ongoing management — kept current as obligations, legislation, and regulatory guidance evolve, so the register doesn't quietly go stale the way a static spreadsheet does.
Frequently Asked Questions
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No — the SRA requires these appointments and the responsibility stays with your firm. What we provide is the system that makes that responsibility manageable: a single register and calendar covering every domain, instead of obligations being tracked informally or not at all.
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A spreadsheet doesn't notify anyone, doesn't get reviewed for currency, and is usually maintained by one person who eventually leaves or gets busy. The calendar is actively monitored and proactively alerts the right person before a deadline becomes urgent — and it's kept current as obligations change, not left to drift.
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Yes — AML tracking (risk assessments, due diligence status, training records, the MLCO/MLRO reporting structure) is one of the domains covered on the calendar, tracked alongside data protection, conduct, and accreditation rather than as a separate, siloed project.
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Yes — renewal cycles, required training topics, and audit preparation for accreditations you hold are tracked on the same calendar as your other obligations.
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No, though the two work closely together. Cybersecurity Uplift implements and technically monitors the controls themselves (MFA, retention labels, Cyber Essentials). Compliance Management tracks the obligations those controls sit inside, and evidences that they're being met on an ongoing basis.
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Every engagement is scoped and fixed-price, confirmed after an assessment of your firm's current compliance domains and existing tracking — never an hourly rate, never open-ended.