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Digital risk for SA businesses

POPIA compliance, LPC conduct rules, website security and AI visibility - explained for South African professionals.

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Articles published
7 risk pillars
Topics covered
6 min
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Law FirmsFeatured·7 min read

What SA law firms get wrong about their website

How to review law firm publicity, privacy and security signals, distinguish observations from conclusions, and identify questions for qualified advisers.

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Law Firms6 min

The LPC Code of Conduct and your law firm website

A practical introduction to LPC publicity and specialist claims, the supporting facts to verify, and the limits of a public website review.

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Law Firms7 min

Why your law firm doesn't appear in AI search

How AI-generated search answers are constructed, why most SA law firms are invisible in them, and the structured content changes that fix it.

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Law Firms8 min

POPIA and client data: what every SA law firm must have in place

Questions to review with your Information Officer about client information, operators, retention and safeguards beyond a public website scan.

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Law Firms7 min

Law firm website checklist: POPIA, PAIA and LPC

A POPIA website checklist for SA law firms: privacy notice, PAIA manual, forms, tracking, HTTPS, requests, retention and transfers, plus LPC publicity basics.

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Law Firms2 min

LPC publicity rules: what to check on your site

How to review law firm website publicity against Part II paragraph 7 of the LPC Code: which claims need supporting facts, and what a review can't show.

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Law Firms2 min

Cookie banners and POPIA: test what they do

A cookie banner proves little on its own: test what a law firm website loads before and after a visitor chooses, and what POPIA asks where consent applies.

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Law Firms7 min

Data subject access requests: is your firm's website ready?

What a POPIA access, correction, or deletion request looks like in practice, the response timeline, and the process most SA firm websites don't have.

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Law Firms6 min

When a compliance audit means a new website

Six signals that a law firm's website has outgrown patching - and how to tell what an audit can fix today versus what only a redesign resolves.

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Law Firms7 min

What we find auditing SA law firm websites

The recurring pattern across LPC conduct, POPIA, security, SEO, and AI readiness findings from structured audits of SA law firm websites - no firm named.

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Law Firms8 min

Law firm website mistakes: 22 sites reviewed

Law firm website mistakes on 22 Somerset West, Strand, Gordon's Bay and Stellenbosch sites: expired certificates, demo pages, bad email links, and the fixes.

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Law Firms8 min

Why your law firm website isn't getting enquiries

Why a law firm website isn't getting enquiries: we tested every email, phone, WhatsApp and form route on 22 Western Cape firm sites. What broke, and the fixes.

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Law Firms11 min

Law firms on Google Maps: where clients get lost

Google Business Profile for law firms: we searched Google's map data for 31 Western Cape firms and followed each journey to the enquiry. The gaps, and fixes.

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Law Firms6 min

What a law firm's privacy notice must include

What POPIA section 18 asks a law firm's website privacy notice to tell visitors: the matters in section 18(1), when they apply, and a 15-minute check.

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