Webinar: Top Tips for Compliant Risk Assessments

Risk assessments often feel like one more compliance obligation to get through rather than a valuable exercise that protects your firm. Many firms struggle with assessments that are either too superficial to be useful or so complex they never get completed.

This practical session cuts through the confusion to give you essential strategies for conducting risk assessments that satisfy regulators while actually helping you identify and manage real risks. We'll explore common pitfalls that trip firms up during audits, share what good looks like in practice, and discuss how to build risk assessment into your day-to-day workflows rather than treating it as a periodic burden.

Drawing on forsyte's experience working with firms to improve their compliance processes, we'll share practical insights on how technology and coaching can support your team through risk assessments, with resources available at client, matter, and firm level. Whether you're refining an existing process or building one from scratch, you'll leave with concrete tips you can implement immediately to make your risk assessments both compliant and genuinely useful.

There will be an opportunity for Q&A at the end of the session.

Speakers
Kayleigh Smale, Founder, Smale Compliance
Kayleigh is a self-confessed AML geek and compliance specialist with over 13 years’ experience in risk and compliance within the UK legal sector. She is the founder of Smale Compliance, where she helps law firms strengthen their AML and regulatory frameworks through practical, engaging, and down-to-earth support. Known for making AML accessible, practical, and even fun, Kayleigh turns complex rules into clear, workable processes that fit the realities of law firm life. She is passionate about helping others feel empowered and supported in getting compliance right, bringing energy, clarity, and a touch of humour to everything she does.

Tracey Longbottom Bio: Co-Founder & Head of Sales, forsyte
With nearly two decades in legal tech sales, Tracey has seen every compliance headache law firms face and knows how to fix them. Now leading business development at forsyte, she helps legal practices ditch the tick-box compliance culture for AI-powered risk assessments that actually work. Tracey’s passion? Translating complex regulatory requirements into solutions that compliance officers and managing partners can implement without the usual pain. She’s on a mission to prove that staying SRA-compliant doesn’t have to mean drowning in admin. When she’s not revolutionising how law firms approach risk, she’s building the partnerships and sales strategy across the legal compliance ecosystem and reminding everyone that good compliance is good business.