DG Legal

DG Legal: strategic and compliance support for law firms

DG Legal is a UK consultancy that advises law firms and solicitors on regulatory compliance and practice management. The firm presents itself as the largest provider of strategic and compliance services in the UK and offers a flexible service model: clients can consult on specific matters, retain the firm on a regular basis or involve it in a particular project.

Compliance and authorisation services

The core of the offer is helping firms meet the requirements of their regulators and quality schemes. DG Legal assists with obtaining authorisation to open a law firm, including new firm authorisation and Licensed Body (ABS) authorisation, and provides guidance on the SRA Transparency Rules. It also supports firms responding to SRA investigations and advises on the roles of COLP and COFA.

On anti-money laundering, the firm provides AML guidance and training aimed at different roles within a law firm. The catalogue includes courses for law firms not in scope, fee earners, MLROs, MLCOs and law firm management, and support staff, as well as specific modules on completing client and matter risk assessments and on source of funds and source of wealth checks.

Quality assurance schemes

DG Legal supports firms working towards Lexcel, the Specialist Quality Mark (SQM), the Conveyancing Quality Scheme (CQS) and the Wills and Inheritance Quality Scheme (WIQS). This includes training requirements courses for Lexcel and SQM, a course on passing the SQM audit, and guidance on the SQM standard.

Legal Aid Agency compliance

For firms with legal aid contracts, the consultancy covers Legal Aid Agency compliance, legal aid consultancy and peer review. Its training catalogue addresses civil Legal Aid Agency audits, financial compliance and legal aid payments, civil means assessment, crime lower billing and family controlled work billing.

Training and webinars

DG Legal runs public training courses and free webinars throughout the year, designed to meet popular demand, and also offers bespoke training courses designed by the client together with the firm's expert team. The course list extends beyond AML and quality schemes to areas such as business continuity planning, conflicts of interest, data audits and data protection impact assessments, data protection and cyber security, equality, diversity and inclusion, ethics in practice, handling subject access and erasure requests, safeguarding for lawyers, the SRA Accounts Rules, supervision and managing performance for legal aid supervisors, and navigating UK sanctions compliance as a law firm.

Compliance Caddy software

Alongside consultancy and training, DG Legal offers Compliance Caddy, described as a simple, timesaving and inexpensive solution for compliance management in law firms.

Other areas of support

The firm's services also cover business development, websites and marketing strategy and management, file reviews, and complaints handling, including a course on maintaining customer satisfaction and resolving complaints effectively. It advises on Bar Standards Board compliance and on Immigration Advice Authority (IAA) compliance.

Clients and resources

DG Legal publishes monthly newsletters, with issues listed from 2018 through October 2026, and maintains a resources section on its website. The site includes a clients section and testimonials from legal professionals describing their experience with the consultancy.