Knowledge category
AML/CTF knowledge for lawyers
Build matter-centred controls for captured legal work while preserving privilege boundaries, confidentiality and restricted reporting.
Explore the lawyers compliance workspaceGuides in this category
Start with the foundation guide, then use the focused articles for the service, customer or control in front of you.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Law firm checklist
A matter-level AML/CTF checklist for Australian law firms: designated services, party CDD, trust money, privilege, reporting and audit-ready files.
Law firm monitoring
What ongoing customer due diligence means in a law firm: matter events, party changes, trust-money movements and the review cycle that keeps files current.
Escrow and settlement
When a law firm's escrow, settlement or controlled-money role is a designated service, and the CDD, authority and reconciliation controls that follow.
Turn guidance into evidence
Use Cassandra AML to record service scope, CDD, ownership, risk, monitoring, reporting and program evidence for your practice.