Professional obligations for lawyers, one tool at a time
Free tools for law firms in Belgium: the rule and its source, the questions that matter, and a document your firm can review and sign. Client data stays on this device.
A Belgian company buying an office building, its sole shareholder living in Monaco.
Risk level
High
Enhanced due diligence
Link with a high-risk third country (Monaco) (art. 38 §1): enhanced due diligence is mandatory.
Measures
- Identify the client (To do)
- Verify the client's identity before starting (To do)
- Identify the agent and verify the power to act (To do)
- Identify the beneficial owners and understand the structure (To do)
and 13 more measures
- The rule, its source and its date
- A document to review and sign
- Client data stays on this device
Start here
- AML risk assessment of a clientIs the matter covered by the AML law? If so, the client's risk level, the due diligence measures and a dated file note.ExampleA Belgian company buying an office building, its sole shareholder living in Monaco.Open
- Engagement letter and fee informationYour fee choices become an engagement letter and, for consumers, the fee-information sheet the CJEU requires (C-395/21).ExampleA consumer client met at home: €150 an hour for 8 to 12 hours, a provision and a 10 % result fee as a supplement.Open
- AI use policy for the firmYour answers become a written AI policy, each clause tied to the bar guidelines and the AI Act, with a one-page staff summary.ExampleA firm using a general chatbot and a legal research tool, with pseudonymised documents.Open
All tools
Anti-money laundering
- AML risk assessment of a clientIs the matter covered by the AML law? If so, the client's risk level, the due diligence measures and a dated file note.
- Annual AML questionnaire: readinessThe firm-wide AML obligations the bars ask about, checked one by one, with what is missing and its source.
- Firm-wide AML risk assessmentGuided questions on your practice, clients and countries; the overall risk assessment the law requires, as a document.
New client
Fees
Artificial intelligence
Data protection (GDPR)
- GDPR record of processing for a law firmThe typical processing of a law firm, pre-filled, plus your AI tools: the Article 30 record, ready to adapt and export.
- Privacy notices for the firmNotices for clients, third parties and the website, built from your answers and Articles 13 and 14 GDPR.
- Data subject requestsAccess, erasure and other GDPR rights: the deadline to answer, identity checks, the limits of professional secrecy and the reply.
- Data breach: the 72-hour clockWhen the 72 hours end, whether to notify the DPA and the people concerned, and the drafts to send.
- DPIA for an AI toolA data protection impact assessment for an AI tool used in the firm: when it is needed, the risks and the measures.
Deontology and training
Legal aid (pro deo)
Understand the obligations
One guide per obligation, with the texts, the bar rules and the tool that applies them.
- The AML law and lawyers: scope, due diligence and reportingWhen the Law of 18 September 2017 applies to a lawyer, what professional secrecy changes, the due diligence measures and reporting through the bâtonnier.
- Preparing the annual AML questionnaire for lawyersWhat the bars announced for 2026 and 2027, what is still unknown, and the firm-wide obligations to put in order before answering the questionnaire.
- Writing the firm's AI policyOVB/OBFG guidelines, the AI Act, professional secrecy and the GDPR: what a lawyer using AI must know, and what a firm's AI policy contains.
- Informing the client about feesHourly rates after judgment C-395/21, result fees, disbursements and VAT, withdrawal and fee disputes: what a lawyer must tell the client before signing.