Automate KYC, KYB and AML checks to onboard clients faster, reduce compliance risk, and free up your fee earners to focus on complex, high-value casework.
Legal firms face increasing pressure to balance strict regulatory obligations whilst protecting their margins and maintaining an efficient service for their clients.
A rising number of ever-more sophisticated fraud attempts, complex AML and KYC/B requirements, and paper-based manual onboarding processes all create friction, cost, and exposure to risks if not properly managed.
Legal firms must comply with strict Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Know Your Client (KYC) regulations, as well as providing a comprehensive firm-wide risk assessment (FWRA). Failure to properly verify clients or adequately manage the risks facing your firm can lead to regulatory penalties, sanctions breaches, and reputational damage.
Legal firms are increasingly targeted by fraudsters – fake identities, stolen documents, shell companies, and impersonation attempts are common. Without robust identity verification in place, firms risk falling victim to sophisticated attacks or being exploited to facilitate financial crime or fraud, with severe consequences.
Traditional, paper-based onboarding is slow, error-prone, and resource-intensive. Fee earners can spend hours on complex document checks and identity verification, diverting attention from high-value casework. Manual processes also make audits and compliance reporting slower and more costly.
As legal work becomes increasingly digital and services cross borders, verifying international clients remotely introduces new risks. Ensuring authenticity across a range of international documents, languages, and jurisdictions is difficult, and inconsistent processes increase liability and client friction.
Our platform uses the latest tools and technologies, including AI, to identify and flag fraud attempts such as deepfakes, impersonation and screen recapture – preventing bad actors from gaining access to your firm.
Automating identity verification, screening and document checks greatly speeds up client onboarding, freeing up your fee earners to focus on more complex cases and saving your firm time and money.
Check clients against global PEPs and sanctions lists, ensure compliance with KYB, KYC and AML requirements and maintain a comprehensive audit trail so you know exactly who you’re doing business with.
Legal firms rely on ID-Pal to manage client onboarding and identity checks to reduce risk, without slowing cases down.
Our platform combines document authentication, biometric verification, and advanced liveness technology to ensure firms are dealing with genuine clients from the outset.
Effortlessly screen individuals and businesses for PEPs and sanctions, adverse media, directorships and more in a single automated KYC / KYB flow.
ID-Pal performs up to 70 technical checks per document, to ensure authenticity and confidently reject suspicious submissions. Our multi-layered identity verification process then verifies the facial image present.
Remove the friction and risk of manual identity checks. ID-Pal uses advanced biometric facial matching to confirm that the person presenting an ID is the rightful owner, using a 50-point facial analysis to verify identity with a high level of accuracy.
Liveness checks confirm a real, live person is completing your identity verification process. ID-Pal liveness testing instantly assesses micro-variations that can be present in fraudulent techniques. This is why our liveness testing technology is independently certified to prevent even the most complex presentation attacks.
Reduce customer onboarding times with Address e-verification. ID-Pal verifies an individual’s name and address against multiple databases during onboarding, ensuring one clear full address match & removing the need for proof of address.
Ensure the legitimacy of corporate clients, UBOs, and associated entities using automated checks across identity, fraud, PEPs, sanctions, adverse media, and business verification, all within a single flow.
Sherry FitzGerald is a leading property advisory firm based in Ireland. Onboarding new customers every day across numerous offices across the country, Sherry FitzGerald was looking for a solution that would integrate seamlessly into their business, whilst making the process simpler and more convenient for both themselves and their clients.
Legal work spans client onboarding, conveyancing, corporate transactions, and ongoing due diligence. Each stage carries regulatory obligations and fraud risk, requiring identity and business checks that are accurate, consistent, and auditable.
ID-Pal supports legal teams across these touchpoints with a single identity verification platform designed to fit real legal workflows.
Automate client identity checks and ongoing verification to meet AML and KYC/B requirements with confidence. Maintain clear audit trails and reduce the risk of non-compliance as regulations evolve.
Protect your firm from identity fraud, document manipulation, and impersonation attempts. Advanced document verification and biometrics help ensure you are dealing with genuine clients.
Reduce the delays and inherent risk caused by manual document and identity checks and in-person meetings. Verify clients quickly and reliably, freeing up time for more strategic matters and high-value casework.
Standardise identity verification across departments, offices, and practice areas. Strengthen compliance by removing reliance on manual judgements and ensure every client is verified to the same standard.
Have questions about improving identity verification and compliance checks across your legal workflows? Speak with our team to see how ID-Pal can save you time and money whilst keeping you on the right side of evolving regulatory requirements.
Faster and fully compliant onboarding
Stronger fraud prevention
Eliminate manual work
Many legal services are subject to identity verification requirements, particularly those involving financial transactions or asset transfer. This includes conveyancing, property law, corporate and commercial work, trusts and estates, and company formation.
Additionally, many services will require KYB (Know Your Business) and AML (Anti-Money Laundering) checks to ensure the probity of businesses and their ownership structures.
Digital identity verification allows law firms to confirm client identity using secure, standardised checks aligned with AML and KYC/B obligations. It also creates clear audit trails, making it easier to demonstrate compliance during regulatory reviews or inspections.
The data and insights gained from these comprehensive checks can be used to support decision-making and the creation of frameworks such as the FRWA (Firm-Wide Risk Assessment) and CMRA (Client Matter Risk Assessment).
Identity verification is critical for regulated legal firms because it underpins regulatory risk and compliance requirements.
Beyond compliance, a strong AML platform like ID-Pal protects firms from impersonation, identity fraud, and unauthorised transactions, particularly during client onboarding, high-value transactions, and matters involving corporate entities. As firms grow and client expectations increase, digital identity verification also enables faster onboarding, lower operational costs, and consistent auditability across complex, high-volume workflows.
Yes. ID-Pal enables legal firms to verify clients remotely without the need for in-person meetings or physical document handling. This allows firms to onboard clients more quickly whilst maintaining consistent compliance standards, regardless of jurisdiction.
ID-Pal supports verification of individuals associated with corporate entities, including directors, people with significant control (PSCs), and beneficial owners – all in one automated, fully-auditable flow. This helps legal firms meet enhanced due diligence requirements and manage complex ownership structures more effectively. account amendments.
ID-Pal is an out-of-the-box solution that is designed to integrate seamlessly with existing systems and processes, and can be deployed rapidly with minimal technical overheads.
With deployment and customisation typically taking less than a day, legal teams can begin using the platform almost immediately to start reducing manual checks and improve onboarding efficiency.
