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Legal risk and compliance, built for law firms

GRC for law firms: data privacy, ISO 27001 and client trust in one platform.

Law firm clients increasingly want proof of your security and privacy practices before they instruct you, and regulators are paying closer attention to how firms handle data. SureCloud brings legal risk and compliance into one cloud-based platform: legal governance risk management and compliance across data privacy, ISO 27001 and client trust. It's GRC for law firms and legal sector GRC for teams without a large GRC function. Pre-built frameworks and automated evidence collection let a small team run the programme.

GRC Software for the Legal Sector

Client trust depends on your risk and compliance programme.

Build one that holds.

Law firms and legal services organisations face intensifying data privacy obligations and client-driven security due diligence. Managing these legal and compliance risks takes a programme, and SureCloud gives you the programme and the evidence.

Clients are asking harder questions. Regulators are following close behind:

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ISO 27001

Enterprise clients want evidence of ISO 27001, GDPR compliance you can demonstrate, and a clear view of how you manage supplier risk and what happens to their data if something goes wrong. That makes legal compliance and risk management a client-facing job as well as an internal one. Security questionnaires arrive before contracts are signed, and answers held in spreadsheets and inboxes turn each request into a scramble. Our guide to preparing for a customer security questionnaire shows how to build the evidence once, and SureCloud's ISO 27001 certification software keeps it current. 
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GDPR

UK GDPR lets the Information Commission, which succeeded the ICO on 30 September 2026, fine up to £17.5 million or 4% of worldwide annual turnover, whichever is higher. Subject access requests need a response without undue delay and within one month, extendable by two further months for complex requests. SureCloud runs DSAR workflows on Orchestrate, and our UK GDPR compliance software page covers the detail. 

Legal sector GRC: what SureCloud covers for law firms

These ten areas cover the legal risk and compliance services law firms ask about most, delivered as software on one platform, with the plan that includes each.

Area

What it does for a law firm

Plan

Link

Data privacy and GDPR

Runs DPIAs and processing records as a managed programme that replaces spreadsheets, with DSAR workflows on Orchestrate.

Add-on on Automate; per-app on Orchestrate

Data Privacy Management

ISO 27001, SOC 2 and Cyber Essentials

Maps controls once and collects evidence as you go, so certification and renewal take less effort each cycle.

Core of Assure

ISO 27001 certification software

Client-facing trust

A Trust Centre shows clients your security posture before they ask.

Included in Assure; available on Automate and Orchestrate

Trust Centre

Third-party and vendor risk

Assesses and tracks suppliers in one register, with vendor tiering and contract management on Orchestrate.

Base app on Automate

Third-Party Risk Management

Internal audit

Holds audit projects, working papers and findings in one place, so a client or regulator request starts from one source.

Add-on on Automate; per-app on Orchestrate (not in Assure)

Internal Audit

Continuous controls monitoring

Tests controls continuously, so you can show your posture today.

CCM Basic in Assure; add-on on Automate; per-app on Orchestrate

Continuous Controls Monitoring

Multi-framework compliance management

Applies one control set across ISO 27001, GDPR and client-driven frameworks.

Automate

Compliance Management

Enterprise and operational risk

Keeps one risk register across the firm.

Orchestrate

Risk Management

AI governance (ISO 42001)

Tracks and governs AI use across the firm, with a register of AI use cases.

Add-on on Automate; per-app on Orchestrate

AI Governance

Gracie AI

Gracie AI, the virtual GRC team, runs as Gracie AI Agents with Personas and Skills that perform the evidence-gathering and mapping activities a larger team would otherwise do by hand, with your team signing off. AI operates the role. Humans lead the programme. IDC's June 2026 Market Note headlines Gracie AI as “The Industry's First Cross-Domain Agentic Platform”.

Gracie Basic on Assure; Gracie Advanced on Automate and Orchestrate

Gracie AI

Which plan fits a law firm?

Plan choice often follows where the pressure is coming from.
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Assure: Risk & Compliance on Autopilot

Assure suits firms whose clients are asking for ISO 27001 or SOC 2. It's a fixed package for teams without dedicated GRC staff, with ten named users, pre-built support for ISO 27001, SOC 2 and NIST CSF 2.0, a control library, evidence templates, risk registers, basic continuous controls monitoring, a Trust Centre and Gracie AI (Basic). It can go live as fast as one week. 
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Automate: From Spreadsheets to AI-Assisted Workflows

Automate suits firms outgrowing spreadsheets across privacy, compliance and supplier risk. You pick two base apps from third-party risk, risk or compliance, then add continuous controls monitoring, internal audit, data privacy, business continuity and automated evidence collection as the programme grows. Named users are unlimited, Gracie AI includes its advanced capabilities, and QuickStart takes about four weeks.

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Orchestrate: Intelligent GRC for the Enterprise

Orchestrate suits firms that run risk at scale with dedicated expertise in individual domains. Each app is licensed separately, named users are unlimited, and Gracie AI's advanced capabilities run across every domain. Implementations are scoped with a dedicated implementation manager and usually take four to eight weeks.

Pricing is built around your GRC programme and follows the plan and products you choose. Request pricing and the team will send the pricing guide, then scope a plan to your firm. You can also book a personalised demo to talk through the plans.

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50% faster DSAR completion
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80% less time finding evidence during audits and regulatory requests
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75% faster time to insight

Common Questions from Law Firms and Legal Teams

Is SureCloud a good fit for legal sector GRC?

Yes. SureCloud covers data privacy, ISO 27001, internal audit, continuous controls monitoring and third-party risk for law firms on one platform. Firms under client due-diligence pressure get one programme and one evidence trail, with plans that run from a fixed compliance package to enterprise GRC.

Is SureCloud a good fit for data privacy and GDPR management in a law firm?

Yes. SureCloud manages DPIAs and processing records as a programme, runs DSARs on Orchestrate, keeps records, decisions and evidence together, and customers complete DSARs 50% faster. It's included in Forrester's The Privacy Management Software Landscape, Q2 2025. See Data Privacy Management.

How do we choose a GRC platform for a law firm?

Look for four things: privacy and ISO 27001 in one platform, evidence you can hand to a client, a fit for the size of your team, and a quick route to go-live. Ask each vendor to answer one of your own client questionnaires from live data. Our comparison of ten data privacy management platforms shows how the leading options differ.

Can a DPO consolidate legal sector GRC into one platform?

Yes. One system holds privacy, ISO 27001 evidence, audit and supplier risk, so a DPO works from one control set and one evidence trail. Processing records and DPIAs sit alongside the risk register, with DSARs on Orchestrate. Our guide to DSAR redaction and secure delivery covers third-party data and safe disclosure. 

Does SureCloud cover internal audit for law firms?

Yes. Internal Audit holds audit projects, working papers and findings in one place, so a client or regulator request starts from one source. It's available from Automate upwards, as an add-on on Automate and a per-app licence on Orchestrate.

Does SureCloud do continuous controls monitoring for law firms?

Yes. SureCloud replaces point-in-time control tests with automated monitoring and gathers evidence along the way, so you can show a client your posture today. CCM Basic comes with Assure, and it's an add-on on Automate and a per-app licence on Orchestrate. See Continuous Controls Monitoring.

How do we manage ISO 27001, GDPR and SRA obligations together?

Run ISO 27001, UK GDPR and Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) obligations as one programme, with shared controls, shared evidence and one view of what each requires. These often run as separate workstreams, which duplicates evidence and effort. Book a personalised demo to walk through your own set-up.

How is SureCloud priced for law firms?

Pricing is built around your GRC programme and depends on the plan, products and compliance objectives you choose. Automate and Orchestrate include unlimited named users, and Assure includes 10. Request pricing and the team will send the pricing guide, then scope a plan to your firm, or compare plans first.

How do we shortlist a GRC platform for a law firm?

Start from your last three client questionnaires, list the evidence each one asked for, and shortlist vendors that can produce every item from live data. Check team-size fit and time to go live next. Our guide to answering customer security questionnaires shows what good evidence looks like.

How quickly can a legal business implement a GRC platform?

Assure can go live as fast as one week. On Automate, QuickStart, SureCloud's structured implementation, takes about four weeks at your pace, and larger Orchestrate programmes usually take four to eight. Gracie AI drafts the configuration and your admins approve it. See how Gracie AI configures compliance in minutes.

Do we need a large GRC function to run SureCloud?

A small team can run it. Assure is built for teams without dedicated GRC headcount, and Gracie AI takes on repetitive evidence and mapping activities while your team reviews and signs off. AI operates the role. Humans lead the programme.

We're running on spreadsheets. How do we move to a GRC platform for ISO 27001:2022?

 Start with the controls you've already evidenced and map each one once. The platform then collects evidence from your connected systems as the work happens, so spreadsheets stop being the source of record. Our guide to automating ISO 27001 and SOC 2 evidence collection walks through the steps. 

We've become far more efficient and have made substantial time savings by using the SureCloud Platform, as many of the larger solutions would have taken years to implement. — Global legal and insurance services

We felt working with SureCloud would enable us to provide a single snapshot of our security posture at any given time. — Mid-market UK legal and business services firm

Helpful supplier reminders and strong reporting speeds up our security assessments. — Large law firm specialising in advisory services and disputes

 

 

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