Built for Australian lawyers and law firms

AML/CTF software for Australian lawyers and law firms

Matter-centred AML/CTF software for Australian law firms, with privilege-aware evidence, party verification, restricted reports and captured transaction workflows.

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Designated services this workflow recognises

The legal trigger is the service being provided, not the professional title. The workspace records a decision for each engagement or matter.

  • Conveyancing and real-property transfers
  • Business and entity transactions
  • Managing client money or property
  • Company and trust formation
  • Nominee, registered-office and trust administration services

A workflow shaped for Lawyers and law firms

  1. Scope the matter before opening compliance work
  2. Verify clients, counterparties and beneficial owners
  3. Record privilege boundaries without storing privileged advice unnecessarily
  4. Restrict suspicious-matter work to authorised staff
  5. Preserve matter-linked approvals and reporting evidence

Evidence ready for organisation review

  • Matter and party records
  • Identity and ownership evidence
  • Trust-money and transaction context
  • Privilege-aware review notes
  • Restricted SMR preparation and receipt evidence

Cassandra AML assists your compliance work; it does not provide legal advice, guarantee compliance or imply AUSTRAC endorsement.

Practical AML/CTF guidance for Lawyers and law firms

Start with the profession pillar, then use the focused guides for the exact service, customer or control you are handling. Each article links to primary AUSTRAC or legislative material.

5 min guide

For lawyers

How Tranche 2 captures Australian law firms and conveyancers: which legal services are designated services, customer due diligence for law practices, trust money, tipping off, and how legal professional privilege is preserved.

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Law-firm designated-service scope

A matter-level guide for Australian law firms deciding when conveyancing, transactions, entity work, trust services and client-money work enter AML/CTF scope.

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Privilege and AML/CTF reporting

How Australian legal practices can separate privileged and non-privileged facts, preserve the reporting clock and use AUSTRAC's legal professional privilege form.

Read the guide 5 min guide

Trust accounts and item 3

A fact-based guide to when receiving, controlling, disbursing or managing customer money and property becomes a professional designated service for law firms.

Read the guide 5 min guide

Entity CDD for law firms

A practical law-firm workflow for identifying companies, trusts, representatives, beneficial owners and controllers before providing a designated legal service.

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Questions lawyers and law firms ask

Are all lawyers and law firms automatically regulated by AUSTRAC?

No. AML/CTF status depends on whether the business provides a designated service with the required Australian geographical link, not the professional title alone. Assess each service and obtain advice where the boundary is uncertain.

What should lawyers and law firms record for an AML/CTF review?

Keep the service-scope decision, customer and beneficial-owner evidence, risk assessment, screening and escalation decisions, approvals, reporting records, training and current program governance evidence.

Does Cassandra AML replace legal or regulatory advice?

No. Cassandra AML organises compliance work and evidence. It does not give legal advice, guarantee compliance or imply AUSTRAC endorsement.