By Legal Futures Associate Access Legal
Leading provider of software and services to the legal market, Access Legal, recently upgraded its catalogue of legal learning courses with fully refreshed versions of its Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) content. The new courses will support firms with their compliance requirements and help them to understand the latest guidance in inclusivity.
The new AML course offers engaging video, interactive and animated content with a focus on how to determine when simplified or enhanced customer due diligence is required, how UK PEPs may be considered lower risk relative to international PEPs, and an exploration of the addendum to LSAG guidance. The highly popular previous version was taken by over 26,000 users.
The second release for Access Legal Learning is its fully updated Equality, Diversity and Inclusion course, available to all law firm staff including managers. The course provides designated EDI training in the context of the legal profession featuring multiple videos led by subject matter experts. The training course includes definitions for key terms and coverage of the updated Equality Act 2010 and the protected characteristics under it. It contains practical knowledge checks covering realistic scenarios which can and have arisen in law firms. There is an optional section for partners, managers, human resources, and EDI officers, as well as mandatory assessment to support continuous learning.
Speaking on the latest releases, Ed Jones, senior product manager at Access Legal, part of The Access Group, shares: “We continually review and update our legal learning content to ensure they meet the latest training standards and provide up-to-date information and insights that help firms to deliver practice excellence, meet compliance requirements and support the progression of their teams. The latest AML and EDI releases provide crucial guidance and engaging learning to firms and their teams on these two critical areas.”
As a leading provider of software and services to the legal market, Access Legal provides 68 courses, from compulsory CQS training to SRA-accredited codes of conduct, to help firms safeguard their business, support compliance and the personal development of legal practitioners. A new course to support new and existing COLPs (Compliance Officers for Legal Practices), with best practices and guidance for fulfilling their role ‘How to be a COLP’ as recently launched too.
Beyond legal specific training courses, Access Legal provides law firms with a suite of software solutions and services to support their practice, compliance and client strategies in order to improve productivity, efficiency, improve their client experience as well as maintain security and compliance standards more easily.
Access Legal launched in 2021 and more than 3,500 UK law firms currently benefit from its solutions. Its client portfolio includes The MAPD Group, Minster Law, Wolferstans Solicitors and Neves Solicitors LLP. Access Legal is part of The Access Group, one of the UK’s leading providers of business management software to mid-sized organisations in the UK, Ireland, USA and Asia Pacific.
Find out more about why EDI is so important to law firms here or to find out how Access Legal can support your law firm, visit https://www.theaccessgroup.com/en-gb/legal
