Compliance management for Australian law firms
JurisIT's Compliance Management service takes the burden of tracking your firm's regulatory, legislative, and professional obligations off your 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, not just the one with the loudest current deadline.
Clio Certified Partner · Microsoft Partner · Australia & UK
One Calendar, Every Obligation
AML/CTF, privacy, conduct, and records — tracked together, not in separate spreadsheets 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 principal is usually the compliance function. There is rarely a dedicated compliance officer, a maintained register, or a calendar anyone fully trusts — obligations get tracked in someone's head, a spreadsheet, or a folder of half-remembered renewal dates. That works until it doesn't: a CPD requirement lapses unnoticed, a data breach response runs late because nobody knew the notification clock had started, or a training record nobody can locate becomes the difference between a clean file and a finding against the firm.
The obligations themselves don't sit in one silo. A single matter can touch professional conduct rules, privacy law, AML/CTF requirements, and records management 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, regulator, responsible person, and review frequency for each.
- The Proactive Compliance Calendar — the centrepiece of the service. Returns, renewals, reviews, and reporting deadlines tracked automatically, with advance notice before anything becomes urgent — across AML/CTF, privacy, professional conduct, and records management together.
- AML/CTF Compliance Tracking — client due diligence status, risk assessments, staff training records, and reporting obligations tracked on the same calendar as everything else — one current example of an ongoing obligation, not a one-off project with an end date.
- Privacy & Data Protection Tracking — obligations under the Privacy Act and the Australian Privacy Principles tracked alongside your data breach response readiness, so a notification clock starting is never a surprise.
- Professional Conduct & Regulatory Reporting — CPD requirements, practising certificate renewals, and Law Society reporting obligations tracked against their actual deadlines, not estimated ones.
- Records & Retention Management — file retention periods and destruction schedules tracked against your actual obligations, reducing both the under-retention and over-retention risk.
- Compliance Evidence on Demand — when an insurer, auditor, or regulator 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 Essential Eight (or 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. The Essential Eight 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 regulator, and flags when a reassessment 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 or with a specialist in that domain.
Some compliance areas sit outside what JurisIT tracks directly and are better handled by a specialist: trust accounting compliance is a job for your trust accounting software provider or external auditor; employment and workplace law obligations are a job for an employment law specialist; financial services and licensing questions (ASIC, AFSL) 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 people.
- Onboarding — your team 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 — ultimate responsibility for compliance 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/CTF tracking (client due diligence, risk assessments, training records, reporting obligations) is one of the domains covered on the calendar, tracked alongside privacy, professional conduct, and records management rather than as a separate, siloed project.
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No, though the two work closely together. Cybersecurity Uplift implements and technically monitors the controls themselves (MFA, retention labels, the Essential Eight). Compliance Management tracks the obligations those controls sit inside, and evidences that they're being met on an ongoing basis.
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We organise, track, and evidence your compliance position — we don't provide legal advice on the substance of a specific obligation. For domains outside our scope, like trust accounting or employment law, we'll point you to the right specialist rather than advise on it ourselves.
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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.