Online Compliance Consortium

Welcome

The Online Compliance Consortium (OCC) has established itself as the standard bearer for online compliance training for law firms around the world.

As a licensor of innovative online compliance, training and management tools, the OCC builds solutions in response to the specific demands of its member firms sharing the costs and the benefits.

OCC Core Groups

Compliance and risk management can best be achieved when the leading businesses in the industry work together to set best practice standards.

The OCC took this collaborative approach a step further in the creation of the Core Group Model.

A number of groups of leading UK law firms have been established and they support the product development within the OCC. They are referred to as the 'OCC Core Groups'.

Groups

Anti-Money Laundering

Winner of the 2008 Legal Technology Award for Online Product of the Year, the OCC Anti-Money Laundering Courses for Fee Earners and Support Staff are highly engaging courses designed to teach what money laundering is all about and satisfy the mandatory requirement to provide ongoing training to all relevant staff.

What's New

OCC in the Media

As the OCC launches new Core Groups around the world, read some of the recent reports and articles published in the media:

Risk Management

The OCC Risk Management Suite comprises four 30 minute courses: Introduction to Risk Management, RM Conflicts, RM Client Engagement and RM Matter Management and a fifth course, email@risk, which deals with managing the risks of email usage in a corporate environment.

Online Training Portal

Whether you are a large firm looking to license the OCC Anti-Money Laundering course or a sole practitioner looking for a convenient way to complete CPD and Risk Management accredited courses, the OCC has solutions for you.

About the OCC

"Regulatory compliance and risk management is of vital importance, and law firms and their staff need to be completely on top of issues such as Anti-Money Laundering. We believe that our membership of the OCC will be important not only for us but will help develop something of value to the legal sector as a whole."

Chris Andrews, Director of Risk Management, Clifford Chance

VinciWorks

VinciWorks creates innovative online training for the world�s leading law firms and banks. VinciWorks prides itself on its ability to work with its clients to identify and develop solutions that address client-specific requirements.

Its products and services are based on a flexible development framework that is tailored to meet client needs.

Contact Us

The OCC has offices in the United Kingdom, Hong Kong and Australia. See links below for office details or email links for email contact worldwide.

Links

These links provide further information on the OCC and associated organisations plus additional links concerning compliance, anti-money laundering and risk management.

OCC Technology Solutions

The right technology solutions don't happen by accident. The OCC collaborative approach allows VinciWorks (the OCC's development partner) to develop tools that help its clients ensure they get the solutions and services they need and want, on time and to budget.

OCC Core Groups

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OCC Core Groups

Compliance and risk management can best be achieved when the leading businesses in the industry work together to create the necessary tools that set best practice standards. The OCC Core Group model allows leading firms to share time, money and intellectual resources to create solutions that directly target their combined requirements.

UK OCC Core Groups

Anti-Money Laundering Core Group In 2004, 14 leading law firms formed the OCC under the banner of collaborative development with the intention to create a benchmark for the industry and set best practice standards for the legal profession. They achieved this by pooling their knowledge, resources and costs to design appropriate exercises and tools to train lawyers in AML. These firms formed the Anti-Money Laundering Core Group.
Risk Management Core Group The success of the AML Core Group was replicated in 2006, when the Risk Management Core Group was formed to develop the online Risk Management courses. A new group of 16 leading firms tackled the larger task of raising the awareness of risk across their firms to improve their overall risk profiles.
email@risk Core Group Bird & Bird, Herbert Smith, Macfarlanes and Nabarros, supported the development of a specific course dealing with the risks of email usage in a professional setting. As email has become the primary communication medium these firms funded and oversaw the development of an innovative course training lawyers to mitigate the potential risks that email and Blackberry use,expose.

Hong Kong OCC Core Group

Anti Money Laundering Core Group
The Hong Kong OCC Core Group has responded to the Hong Kong Law Society’s July 1st 2008 mandatory requirements to implement anti-money laundering processes and procedures. The 12 firm Core Group’s new online AML courses allow Hong Kong firms to immediately, efficiently and cost-effectively comply with the mandatory training obligations. This 2 hour online course is accredited by the Hong Kong Law Society for 2 RME/CPD points

The HK Risk Management Review Course
The success of the UK Risk Management Course developed 16 leading UK firms lead to the localisation of the course for Hong Kong firms. Accredited by the HK Law Society for 2 RME/CPD points raises the awareness of risk within a law firm, improving a firm’s overall risk profile.

Sweden OCC AML Core Group

The Swedish OCC Core Group is led by Sweden’s largest firm Mannheimer Swarlting, together with the leading firms of Vinge and Hammarskiöld & Co. The Swedish Core Group firms created a Swedish version of the online AML course in response to the ongoing, mandatory, AML training requirements imposed by the Swedish Anti-Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Act (SFS 2009:62).

The course is now being offered to all other Swedish firms.