SPEAKING
AML supervision, risk and professional judgement, from the regulator's perspective.
Michelle Clement speaks to law firm leaders, MLROs, COLPs and compliance teams on how AML supervision works in practice, how regulatory expectations are applied, and where professional judgement matters most. Her perspective draws on five and a half years in the SRA's AML Directorate, inspecting firms, contributing to regulatory guidance and making supervisory decisions, alongside her work advising firms today.
SRA COLP/COFA Compliance Conference
Speaker, 2022, 2023 and 2024
Law Society Economic Crime Conference
Speaker, 2025
PREVIOUS APPEARANCES
The AML Clinic Podcast
Host
The Law Society Risk Assessment webinar
Speaker, 2026
TALK TOPICS
Sessions tailored to your audience.
Each topic can be delivered as a keynote, panel contribution, workshop or in-house session, and adapted for UK or international audiences.
AML supervision, risk and professional judgement
How AML supervisors assess whether a firm's framework works in practice, and what makes risk-based decisions defensible under scrutiny.
What effective AML supervision looks like in practice
How supervisors test AML frameworks, assess evidence and effectiveness, and identify weaknesses that may be difficult to see from inside a firm.
Global AML frameworks, local regulatory expectations
How international firms navigate the interaction between group-wide AML frameworks, local regulatory requirements, governance structures and supervisory expectations.
The MLRO role: responsibility, escalation and organisational support
The practical demands of the MLRO role, including difficult judgements, escalation, challenge and the governance and support needed to make the function effective.
Source of funds and source of wealth: evidence, judgement and challenge
How firms can approach financial information proportionately, identify the questions that require further investigation and document the reasoning behind their conclusions.
What the SRA looks for on an AML inspection
A practical insight into how SRA AML inspections are approached, what inspectors test and the issues that can emerge when a firm's arrangements are examined in detail.