The modern slavery reporting platform for the legal sector
Be part of shaping a consistent, sector-wide approach to modern slavery reporting in the legal profession.
Modern slavery reporting is becoming more complex across legal supply chains
Law firms operate within global and interconnected service ecosystems, including outsourced legal services, offshore processing, and technology vendors.
Legal organisations must:
- Collect reliable supplier disclosures across diverse service providers
- Assess risks linked to labour practices, offshore operations, and recruitment methods
- Respond to increasing ESG scrutiny from clients and regulators
- Produce clear, defensible reporting aligned to regulatory expectations
Clients are increasingly requesting modern slavery disclosures as part of panel appointments and ongoing engagement.
No organisation can solve these challenges alone.
Why the Legal platform exists
Shared challenges require shared solutions
Legal supply chains are diverse, global, and often opaque. Differences in how organisations collect data, assess risk, and report can lead to duplication, inconsistency, and limited insight. The legal sector is beginning to move toward a more consistent approach.
This platform enables law firms to:
- Establish a shared Modern Slavery Self-Assessment Questionnaire (SAQ) to reduce duplication
- Support capability uplift through shared learning and regular collaboration opportunities
- Deliver stronger evidence for internal and external reporting - with consistently better supplier disclosures
How the legal platform works
Collect, assess, and report on modern slavery risk through one connected platform built for compliance, transparency, and continuous improvement.
Establish your baseline
Upload your supplier list to instantly generate country and industry-based inherent risk ratings, giving you a clear baseline of modern slavery risk across your supply chain before deeper assessments begin.
Ratings informed by trusted data sources including:
- Global Slavery Index
- Corruption Perceptions Index
- Global Peace Index
- Social Progress Index
Engage suppliers with the shared SAQ
Assess modern slavery risk across key supplier practices:
- Organisational context, including structure, ownership and geographic footprint
- Governance and controls, including reporting, policies, training and accountability
- Worker protections, including grievance mechanisms and remediation
- Operations and employment practices, including labour hire, recruitment and migrant workers
- Supply chain visibility and sourcing, including higher-risk countries, goods and services and onboarding practices
- Identification and management of modern slavery risks and incidents
Suppliers only see questions relevant to them thanks to conditional logic.
Report & Improve
Automatically score SAQ responses to assess supplier, human rights, and modern slavery risk using configurable models.
Interactive dashboards, reports, and report builder tools give procurement, risk, and leadership teams shared visibility to prioritise action and track improvement across their supply chains.
Bring together internal ESG and supplier data including spend, risk ratings, and assessments in one secure platform. Integrate trusted intelligence sources such as Dow Jones, Dun & Bradstreet, and Sedex.
Move beyond reactive reporting to strengthen governance, improve supplier accountability, and embed modern slavery performance in decision-making.
When organisations act independently across the sector
These issues can arise:
- Reporting becomes repetitive and low value
- Risk scoring varies widely
- Duplication becomes entrenched
- Suppliers receive multiple, inconsistent requests
- Effort increases without better outcomes
A shared, sector-wide platform helps reduce duplication, improve consistency, and strengthen modern slavery risk reporting.
Collaboration advantage
A sector-wide working group that actually works
The platform is designed to bring together leading legal organisations to address modern slavery risks in a more coordinated way. Supported by expert facilitation from Robin Mellon, CEO of Better Sydney.
- ~100 resources to be circulated throughout 2026
- ~50 free learning resources to be embedded within the supplier assessment
- Ongoing refinement of the shared SAQ through industry collaboration
This collaboration keeps the platform aligned to real supply chain challenges and legislative expectations.
Developed alongside member firms from the Australian Legal Sector Alliance, the platform delivers a shared, industry-led approach to modern slavery reporting.
Drawing on experience across regulated industries including property and construction, water, and energy utilities, it helps align how the legal sector identifies, assesses, and reports on modern slavery risks across supply chains.
Designed for organisations across the legal sector, including:
- Large national and international practices
- Mid-sized and boutique firms
- Firms operating across both metropolitan and regional locations
- And more
Platform impact
Expected outcomes across the legal sector:
- Reduced duplication across supplier engagement and reporting
- More consistent and comparable supplier disclosures
- Improved visibility of modern slavery risk across legal supply chains
- Stronger, more defensible reporting aligned to regulatory expectations
- Increased supplier capability through access to shared guidance and resources
- Better alignment between procurement, ESG, and risk teams
See the platform in action
See how your organisation can streamline reporting, strengthen due diligence, and contribute to a more consistent approach across the legal sector.
