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New · September 2026

The SRA Sectoral Risk Assessment and the confidence gap I see

The SRA's August update is not the risk. It's the prompt. Four questions to test whether your firm could actually prove it's on top of its risk, and what the pause before you answer tells you. Read it →

Guides

Practical, plain-English guides to the risk topics firms actually wrestle with. More landing here fortnightly.

Coming soon

The pre-renewal checklist

What your broker will ask, what the insurer will see, and what to fix first.

Coming soon

What should you get from an audit?

What good looks like, what a report should let you do next, and the questions to ask before you commission one.

Coming soon

File reviews that find real risk

Why most reviews find tidy files instead of problems, and how to change that.

Writing, published elsewhere

Law Society

Risk & Compliance Microcredential

Eloise is a contributing author to the Law Society's risk and compliance micro-accreditation, which launched on 1 September 2026, the same day as this firm. See the course

Law Society

Portion of interest

Proposals for the MoJ to take a share of client account interest caused an outcry. What it actually means, broken down. Read the feature

Law Society

My compliance career: nine things I've learnt

Nineteen years in, the lessons that survived. Read the feature

In conversation

Podcast

Humanising compliance

On making compliance human, and building a voice on LinkedIn. Listen

Podcast

A day in the life of a compliance manager

The UNCOVER Pod, from the Lester Aldridge years. Listen

Interview

A day in the life: senior associate, risk & compliance

With AJ Fox Compliance, from the Foot Anstey years. Read it

Worth your time

Reading Eloise rates: the Law Gazette on the compliance and reputational headache of a media frenzy, the Gazette's report from the Law Society risk and compliance conference on putting AI on the risk agenda, and the Women Who Will 2026 report from the Next 100 Years project.

Eloise Butterworth
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