Legl

Legl (legl.com) is a UK-based SaaS company that provides automation and digital solutions for law firms, focusing on legal operations such as client onboarding, KYC (Know Your Customer), AML (Anti-Money Laundering), compliance, and payment processes. Legl's platform helps law firms increase revenue, improve compliance, and drive operational efficiencies. Legl offers an AI product called Legl Assist, which leverages generative AI to automate and enhance compliance tasks, such as providing summaries and risk assessments. This AI tool is designed to save law firms time on client due diligence checks and support faster, smarter decision-making. The primary target audience for Legl's AI product is mid-market and top-tier law firms seeking to streamline client lifecycle management and compliance processes.

Legl is a platform designed to automate and streamline business processes for law firms, focusing on compliance, client onboarding, payments, and risk management. Here are the main features and functions offered by Legl: 1. KYC & AML: Identity and biometric confirmations, financial and watchlist screening, and ongoing monitoring for compliance. 2. KYB: Tools to unwind complex corporate structures and optimize regulatory compliance for business clients. 3. Pay: Digital payment solutions to get paid faster, reduce lock-up and debtor days, and improve client payment experiences. 4. Source of Funds: Tools to understand and verify the source of client funds. 5. Assist: AI-powered summaries and risk assessments to enrich Customer Due Diligence (CDD) checks. 6. CMI: Modular workflows for client onboarding or matter inception, fully integrated with existing tech stacks. 7. Risk Assessment: Real-time oversight by unifying client, matter, and financial data for consistent risk decisions. 8. No-Code Workflows: Digitize and automate both client-facing and internal workflows without coding. 9. Consolidated Client Experience: Branded, app-free client onboarding, digital document signing, and onboarding funnel visibility. 10. Operational Dashboards: Department-level activity and performance insights, oversight on completion data, and real-time AML audit oversight. 11. Integrations: Connects with legal tech platforms like Actionstep, Clio, DPS, P4W, Proclaim, ShareDo, and Quill. These features help law firms increase efficiency, improve compliance, enhance client experience, and save time through automation and digital processes.

Legl is a legal technology platform focused on automating and digitizing law firm operations, especially around compliance, client onboarding, payments, and risk management. It is not limited to a specific legal practice area (such as Corporate/M&A, Litigation, IP, etc.) but is designed to support law firms of all sizes and practice areas by streamlining operational and compliance workflows. Key features and functions of Legl include: - KYC & AML: Identity and biometric confirmations, financial and watchlist screening, ongoing monitoring for anti-money laundering compliance. - KYB: Corporate structure analysis and regulatory compliance for business clients. - Payments: Digital payment solutions to reduce lock-up and debtor days, improving cash flow. - Source of Funds: Tools to collect and analyze source of funds information for compliance. - Legl Assist: AI-powered summaries and risk assessments to enhance Customer Due Diligence (CDD). - CMI (Client Matter Inception): Modular workflows for client onboarding and matter inception, integrated with existing tech stacks. - Risk Assessment: Real-time, unified oversight of client, matter, and financial data for risk management. - No-code workflows: Digitize and automate both client-facing and internal processes. - Operational dashboards: Department-level insights, client experience tracking, and AML audit oversight. - Integrations: Works with platforms like Clio, Actionstep, DPS, P4W, Proclaim, ShareDo, and Quill. Legl is primarily a compliance and operations platform for law firms, not a tool for a specific legal practice area, but it is applicable across all areas where client onboarding, compliance, and payments are required.

Legl is ISO 27001 certified (certificate number: 0174467) and fully compliant with the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018. Legl is also Cyber Essentials Plus certified. There is no evidence that Legl is SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, or CCPA compliant. Some of Legl’s sub-processors (such as Mitek Systems, Adyen, and Stripe) are SOC 2 certified, but Legl itself does not claim SOC 2 or HIPAA/CCPA compliance.

Legl explicitly states that data is encrypted at rest (AES-256) and in transit (TLS 1.2+), is hosted on AWS data centres in Dublin, and is protected by Cloudflare for DDoS and web application firewall security. Legl is fully compliant with UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018, is ISO27001 and Cyber Essentials Plus certified, and conducts regular security audits including penetration testing and vulnerability scanning. Sub-processors are required to meet strict security standards (ISO27001 or equivalent). There is no explicit mention of "no data retention," "client data not used for training," "on-prem deployment," "private cloud," or "customer-managed encryption keys" in the available documentation.