Plan
Download the LOCS:23 Certification Standard and understand the controls and associated requirements needed for certification. (available as free PDF or hard copy booklet)
Legal Services Operational Privacy Certification Scheme
Helping Law Firms, Solicitors, Barristers, In-house Council and other providers of legal services become approved or certified to the only Article 42, Certification mechanism for the Legal Sector.
Our approved LOCS:23 Assessor/Implementor is Chris Roberts.
Your advantage of being approved or certified:
- Promote Client confidence by demonstrating you are certified to protect their personal data.
- A competitive advantage
- Officially recognised
- Apply a recognised, measurable and auditable data protection standard across the organisation
- Save time and resources completing Client data protection questionnaires
- May be used as a ‘supplemental measure’ for international transfers
- Mitigate against ICO enforcement action (Art 83)
- Compliments the ISO 27001 standard for information security
- Continuously updated with emerging ICO guidance and input from LOCS:23 fellows
- Simplify procurement process with LOCS:23 certified vendors
The LOCS:23 Standard
The LOCS:23 Standard describes the scope and process for certification and details the controls required to be in place to achieve certification.
There are 34 controls covered by the following 5 sections
- 8.1 ORGANISATIONAL AND CLIENT FILE GOVERNANCE
- 8.2 CLIENT RIGHTS
- 8.3 OPERATIONAL PRIVACY
- 8.4 THIRD PARTY SERVICE PROVIDERS AND DATA SHARING
- 8.5 MONITOR & REVIEW
The LOCS:23 Approved Solutions
We’d be happy to directly connect you to the suppliers but if you do contact them directly, please mention Cybata
3 Steps to LOCS:23 Certification
Get Approval
Ensure you have the LOCS:23 required policies, processes and training in place. Engage with us one of the approved to provide a gap analysis, assist you in planning for certification and confirm you are ready for certification.
Check out the Approved Solutions that have demonstrated their ability to assist with meeting one or more controls in the LOCS:23 standard and may help you in your certification journey.
Certify
Optionally certify yourself or a team member as a LOCS Practitioner.
The approved independent Certification Body will audit your firm’s data protection framework for compliance with LOCS:23
