How to Use Data Analytics in Legal Advisory & Regulatory Compliance

Introduction

Legal and compliance teams are increasingly expected to interpret complex data, identify emerging risks, and deliver evidence-led advice to senior stakeholders and regulators.

This new interactive virtual classroom seminar equips legal and compliance professionals with practical analytical tools to strengthen decision-making, advisory work, and regulatory compliance.

Designed for compliance officers, lawyers, and in-house counsel, this session focuses on real-world scenarios rather than technical theory and explores how analytics can be embedded into everyday legal and compliance activity, including investigations, risk assessments, conduct reviews, compliance monitoring, and board-level reporting.

On completion of this session, you will be able to:

• Interpret legally relevant datasets to identify risks, anomalies, and emerging trends
• Apply practical analytical techniques to compliance monitoring and investigations
• Use structured analytical frameworks to support evidence-driven legal advice
• Build simple dashboards and risk heatmaps for senior management and boards
• Translate technical insights into clear, persuasive legal narratives
• Strengthen documentation for regulatory submissions, audits, and supervisory reviews

What You Will Learn

This live and interactive session will cover the following:

• Why Analytics Matters in Legal and Compliance Work
• Regulatory shift toward evidence-based compliance
• Expectations from FCA, PRA, SRA, ICO regarding data use
• Limitations of intuition-only advisory
• How analytics improves audit readiness and reduces risk
• Foundations of Legal and Compliance Analytics
• Types of legal datasets - regulatory reports, case files, behaviour logs, contracts, KYC/AML data
• Identifying patterns, gaps, inconsistencies
• Understanding anomalies vs. normal variations
• Using data frameworks in legal reasoning
• Analytics for Compliance Monitoring and Investigations
• Early-warning indicators
• Behavioural risk analysis (emails, time logs, access logs)
• Data-led identification of conflicts of interest
• Using thresholds and triggers to prioritise risk
• How analytics supports whistleblowing investigations
• Data-Driven Legal Advisory and Document Drafting
• Integrating analytics into legal opinions and compliance memos
• Structuring advice using data evidence
• Using charts, tables, and visuals in legal reports
• Supporting board-facing recommendations with analytics
• How to avoid overreliance on quantitative outputs
• Data Visualisation for Legal Professionals
• Choosing the right visual (bar, line, histogram, heatmap)
• Highlighting key risks visually (traffic-light system)
• Building a risk heatmap in under 5 minutes
• Removing visual clutter to improve clarity
• Presenting Legal Insights to Senior Stakeholders
• Communicating complex risks simply
• Translating data findings for boards, GCs, and regulators
• Aligning insights with legal duties, SMCR accountability, and regulatory requirements
• Avoiding common presentation pitfalls

Recording of live sessions: Soon after the Learn Live session has taken place you will be able to go back and access the recording - should you wish to revisit the material discussed.