
The Middle Office: Unlocking Hidden Capacity in Legal Teams
How strategic middle-office support allows legal professionals to focus on high-value work while maintaining operational excellence in the background.
Screening and documentation
Sector-agnostic know-your-customer screening and documentation using your tools or online data sources, with consistent records for every entity.

The challenge
Onboarding checks are repetitive, document heavy and time critical.
Industry: adaptable beyond financial services
Or online data sources
Procedure for every entity
Escalated for your decision
Onboarding cannot wait, but neither can compliance. KYC work demands a repeatable procedure applied identically to every entity, with notes that stand up to audit.
We follow a standard procedure agreed with you, use your screening tools or online data sources, and document every check. Exceptions are escalated so your compliance team can decide. We have delivered this for a number of financial services clients, and the approach adapts to any industry.
We use your screening tools, or online data sources.
Delivered for a number of financial services clients, and adaptable to any industry.
A standard procedure and clear notes for every entity checked.
We prove the approach on a small sample with you first, then scale. Here is how the work flows, and where AI carries the load versus where our attorneys apply judgement.
Technology where it adds value
An indicative view of how work is shared between AI and our attorneys at each stage. Judgement, protocol and sign-off always stay with people.
Checks, risk thresholds and documentation standard agreed.
Entities screened against your tools or online sources.
Results reviewed and notes recorded for each entity.
Exceptions escalated; status and exception reports delivered.
What you receive
Completed, documented KYC files and exception reports, so your compliance team can decide.
Where it fits best
The attorney who scopes your work shares pricing up front. These are the models that typically suit kyc.
Best for
Defined projects, such as a CLM assessment or a contract clean-up.
How it is billed
One price for an agreed scope and outcome.
Best for
Variable volume, such as document review or abstraction.
How it is billed
Per document or per contract, with a ceiling on total spend.
Best for
Ongoing work, such as platform operations or monitoring.
How it is billed
A monthly fee for a dedicated team, scaled up or down with notice.
Best for
Programmes that mix a project with steady run work.
How it is billed
A fixed fee to build, then a unit rate or team fee to run.
No. We complete and document the checks and escalate exceptions; your compliance team decides.

Rules-based document review for any diligence exercise, from M&A and vendor onboarding to regulatory change, with findings, gaps and exposures extracted and checked by reviewers.

Counsel-guided repapering of live contracts after a regulatory, policy or business change, scaled to the deadline with a live status tracker.

Validated multi-jurisdiction legal research, compared side by side, as a one-time report or continuous monitoring of change.

GDPR-focused DSAR support: collected data reviewed to find what relates to the requester, with third-party and confidential information redacted.

Post-breach data review to identify affected individuals and their information, delivered as a validated, de-duplicated notification list.
We screen and document every entity to your standards, with consistent records that stand up to audit and keep your pipeline moving.
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