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.
Five situations, in plain words
Illustrations of questions lawyers and law firms meet. Not customers, and not a decision for your file.
General legal advice on its own is usually not covered. Say so on the matter.
A property transfer is often covered. Check the buyer, the seller and who controls them.
Trust money for a settlement needs the same file as the matter, not a side spreadsheet.
Setting up a company inside a matter is its own check, not part of the advice.
A suspicious-matter note stays with the people allowed to see it, not the whole team.
Work that can be covered
- 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
What to keep on the file
- Matter and party records
- Identity and ownership evidence
- Trust-money and transaction context
- Privilege-aware review notes
- Restricted SMR preparation and receipt evidence
Guides for lawyers and law firms
- For lawyers5 min
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 scope6 min
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 reporting5 min
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 35 min
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 firms5 min
A practical law-firm workflow for identifying companies, trusts, representatives, beneficial owners and controllers before providing a designated legal service.
- Law firm checklist3 min
A matter-level AML/CTF checklist for Australian law firms: designated services, party CDD, trust money, privilege, reporting and audit-ready files.
- Law firm monitoring3 min
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 settlement3 min
When a law firm's escrow, settlement or controlled-money role is a designated service, and the CDD, authority and reconciliation controls that follow.
Questions lawyers and law firms ask
Are all lawyers and law firms regulated by AUSTRAC?
No. It depends on whether the business provides a designated service with the required Australian link, not on the professional title. Assess each service and take advice where the boundary is uncertain.
What should lawyers and law firms keep for an AML/CTF review?
The scope decision, customer and beneficial-owner evidence, the risk assessment, screening and escalation decisions, approvals, reporting records, training and the current AML/CTF program.
Does Cassandra AML replace legal advice?
No. It organises compliance work and evidence. It does not give legal advice, guarantee compliance or imply AUSTRAC endorsement.