GwG · Lawyers · Level 3 of 5

GwG for lawyers: Professional

Expert: Distinguish reporting issues and legal professional confidentiality

You structure demanding mandates and examine the relationship between due diligence, professional confidentiality and possible reporting obligations. You separate the basic facts, the exceptions and their limits on the basis of the respective source of information.

Training offer for Germany

Planned training time: 4 hours
Additional test: Voluntary · planned +45 minutes
After participation: Participation certificate and participation Badge

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Non-binding request to Timo Winkelbach. You can only select the additional exam if you wish.

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Format and price for this level

Live online training

199 €

excluding VAT per participant and course

This level is offered as live online training.

Online examination included in the price

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Up-to-date training materials

Certificate of attendance and digital badge

The final examination is optional and takes place online. One attempt and one retake are included in the course price. Examination time is additional to learning time.

We use teaching case studies based on real practical questions. Individual advice on ongoing client matters is not provided during training.

Does this step fit you?

Who is the training for?

For experienced lawyers, money-laundering agents and professional contact persons in law firms.

What prior knowledge do you need?

Secure knowledge of the mandate review and risk assessment; advanced level or comparable experience.

Your concrete added value

You can prepare a difficult question in such a way that the competent law firm's function detects factual basis, sources and open decision points. Flat-rate appeals to secrecy are replaced by a targeted, comprehensible audit.

Prepare assessment decisions supported by robust reasoning

That's what you're working on in this training.

Origin of information and context of mandate
You order information according to when, by whom and in connection with what activity they became known. In different mandates, you check the importance of this assignment before assessing a possible exception or further action.
Reporting verification with exceptions and limits
You process § 43 para. 1 and 2 GwG on the original text and demarcates questions of obliged property from it. In a case variation you examine which additional fact changes the legal examination and why the exact level of knowledge must be documented.
Communication and decision-making
You will investigate the prohibition of information sharing and legal exceptions based on planned discussion content. Then you formulate an internal decision template with options for action, responsibilities and open questions; an explained evaluation makes justification gaps visible.

Your learning goals

In this context, it is important to stress the need for a common approach to information.
separate verification of the reporting underlying event, exceptions and withdrawals.
Investigate planned information transfer at the relevant legal framework.
Create a decision-making note with clear limits of evaluation.

From knowledge to a well-founded case solution.

Fictional practice case · Lawyers

New information shortly before enforcement

In a company mandate, conflicting information on the financing is announced shortly before completion. Parts come from consulting discussions, others from transaction documents. Arrange the sources of information and explain which issues need to be decided separately for care, reporting and communication.

In focus: To examine the source of information and scope of occupational exceptions in the concrete mandate.

Your Exercise

You compare two variants of an ongoing advisory mandate. For each variant you justify the necessary examination steps and formulate an appropriate internal transfer.

Your work result and proof of participation

A differentiated proposal on reporting, confidentiality and further action in the concrete mandate context. After completing the training, you receive a participation certificate and a participation Badge for your sector and level.

How this relates to your daily work

You practice the professional preparation of sensitive law firm decisions. The focus is on clean factual work, appropriate source allocation and communication, whose legal requirements have been explicitly examined.

Planned: 4 hours of training. With space for application.

The planned pure training time is 240 minutes. It includes knowledge transfer, application at the practice case and joint evaluation. Breaks are added. The data are planning values; we coordinate the concrete process before the training.

Knowledge & Classification: 90 minutes
Exercise & Application: 135 minutes
Evaluation & Transfer: 15 minutes

If you choose the optional additional exam, come 45 minutes The planned total time with examination is then 4.75 hours, plus breaks.

The final examination is optional and takes place online. One attempt and one retake are included in the course price. Examination time is additional to learning time.

Voluntary additional option · planned +45 minutes

You decide if you're going to take an additional exam.

Training is also possible without additional final examination. After completing your training you will receive a certificate of participation and a badge of participation. A proof of passing an examination requires successful participation in the voluntary supplementary examination.

Test format

Optional examination: Reasoned case decision with communication examination

Your exam task

You create a decision proposal for a new situation and additionally check the intended content of a client message.

This is what the evaluation depends on.

Existence and exceptions cleanly separated
State of knowledge and information source documented
Communication boundaries taken into account in case-by-case

Documentation of the test performance

After passing the optional assessment, you receive a record of achievement for this level explicitly identified as an assessment credential.

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Participation and examination performance remain recognizable.

The personal proof explicitly indicates whether the participation or a passed voluntary supplementary examination is confirmed. The badge graphic shows the industry and level of learning; it is not in itself a proof of performance.

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Legal bases and technical sources at this stage

The training works with the following sources. They shall help to justify the practice decisions on the basis of the relevant rules.

Interested in GwG for lawyers: Professional?

Your contact for the training request is Timo Winkelbach. You can reach him by e-mail to info@eu-aml.com or via the pre-filled request form.

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