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LMS for Law Firms

Tribal Habits LMS for law firms

Keep CPD, compliance and matter knowledge on track across every office.

Every solicitor has annual CPD obligations that differ by state. Since 1 July 2026, firms providing designated services also sit inside the AML/CTF regime, with staff training attached.

Tribal Habits LMS for law firms
Industry Reality

The biggest training challenges in law firms

Legal practice runs on current knowledge, evidenced compliance and consistency, often across multiple offices and jurisdictions where the rules are not the same.

01

CPD has to be tracked and evidenced yearly.

CPD has to be tracked and evidenced, every year.

Every solicitor must complete a set number of CPD units every year across four categories and keep records, with the details differing by state.

Across jurisdictions, that’s an evidence problem, not just a learning one, and a missed requirement puts a practice at risk.

02

AML/CTF applies to every practitioner in your firm.

Since 1 July 2026, firms providing designated services are reporting entities under the AML/CTF Act for the first time, and must train staff, run customer due diligence and report to AUSTRAC.

That makes AML/CTF training a standing requirement, not a one-off. The library has anti-money laundering modules ready to use, so you can assign, track and evidence it now.

03

Knowledge and processes live in people's heads.

How your firm opens a matter, handles trust and manages conflicts sits with experienced staff, not in structured training. When they leave, it goes with them.

Tribal Habits enables you to easily turn internal knowledge into training for new starters, lateral hires and refreshers, so onboarding doesn’t restart every time.

04

Training has to stay consistent across offices.

Practitioners rarely train at the same time or under the same state rules, so gaps build up quickly between offices, teams and new hires.


Tribal Habits assigns training by role, team or jurisdiction, keeps every office on the same version, and makes completion visible across the firm.

Our legal industry clients

Industry Reality

The complete training system for law firms

Start with existing content where it helps. Build the training that is specific to your firm. Manage CPD, compliance and records from the same platform.

Pre-built Training

Editable Training Library

Start with the hundreds of editable modules in the training library, including AU/NZ compliance, workplace conduct, psychosocial safety, leadership and workplace skills. Add your own policies, and firm-specific content as you need it, without waiting on a specialist to build it for you.

Build your own

Interactive Course Builder

Turn your processes, procedures, induction steps and internal know-how into structured, engaging modules using interactive building blocks and Sage AI. Add blended elements for supervised, on-the-job sign-off, and customise courses, certificates and branding to match your firm.

Training Management

Full LMS Features

Automate enrolments, reminders and CPD and compliance pathways. Integrate with your HRIS or practice systems. Full reporting including completions, assessment scores, and CPD and certification expiries. Give office and practice-group managers visibility over their own team only.

It makes setting up and growing a learning and development program from scratch simple to do, with a great user interface and terrific learning modules off the shelf or bespoke

Sally - Law Firm Director Strategic Communication

Rated 5 out of 5
The Difference

What a better legal training system looks like

The same organisation. A completely different training operation.

Before Tribal Habits

With Tribal Habits

CPD records sit across spreadsheets, provider certificates, inboxes and individual practitioners' own tracking.

CPD activity, points and categories are tracked in one place and can be evidenced per practitioner when a certificate renewal or audit requires it.

Supervisors and HR repeatedly walk new starters and lateral hires through the same induction, trust and matter-management basics.

Core induction and role training can be assigned consistently, leaving senior staff to focus on practice-specific supervision.

Evidence of mandatory and AML/CTF training has to be pulled together from different places when an auditor or regulator asks.

Completion, progress and assessment records are available through the LMS and can be filtered or exported when required.

A changed policy, precedent or obligation creates another email, PDF or all-staff memo that has to find its way through the firm.

The relevant training can be updated inside the platform and delivered to the people who need the new information.

Different offices and states run their own training, and no one has a clear firm-wide view of what is outstanding.

Training is assigned by role, team or jurisdiction, with firm-wide reporting on what is complete, due or overdue.

Pre-Built Training Library

Training built for how Australian & New Zealand law firms run

Firm-wide obligations covered, your products and advice built by you

The library includes 500+ editable modules spanning workplace topics, among them AU/NZ compliance, conduct, privacy, information security, leadership and people management. Start with what’s built, then tailor it to your products, licence and roles.

Modules referencing AU/NZ legislation are reviewed by external legal firms as required, including McCullough Robertson, LegalVision and Dentons.

For the CPD and training unique to your firm, use the course builder and Sage AI to turn products, advice processes, policies and internal expertise into structured, trackable training that updates as regulation and products change.

Current relevant library topics include (we are regularly adding more)
01

Anti-bullying & anti-harassment

02

Sexual harassment awareness

03

Equal employment opportunity

04

Ethics: Employees and workers

05

Managing professional boundaries

01

Anti-money laundering - Essentials / Advanced (AU)

02

Anti-money laundering - New reporting entities (AU)

03

Conflict of interests (AU & NZ)

04

Fraud & corruption awareness & prevention (AU & NZ)

05

Anti-bribery in practice (AU & NZ)

06

Whistleblowing awareness (AU & NZ)

07

Receiving and managing whistleblower reports (AU)

08

Contract management series (AU)

01

Privacy in the workplace (AU & NZ)

02

Information Security: Employee awareness (AU)

03

Information Security: Phishing awareness

04

Preventing accidental data breaches (AU)

01

Psychosocial hazards (employees and managers)

02

Office and workspace ergonomics (AU & NZ)

03

The right to disconnect (AU)

04

Strategies to manage burnout

05

Strategies to manage stress in the workplace

06

Maintaining resilience in trauma-exposed professions

01

Managing staff underperformance (AU & NZ)

02

Coaching and developing staff

03

Mentoring series

04

Transitioning from employee to manager

05

The fundamentals of great leadership

Pricing

Transparent pricing, based on who actually trains

Most staff don’t do training every month, which is why Tribal Habits charges on monthly active users (someone who logs in at least once during the month). This means you only pay for the people who log in and train each month.

How Monthly active user pricing works

You only pay when someone actually trains

Most LMS platforms charge per seat, whether the user logs in or not. Tribal Habits uses Monthly Active User pricing, so you only pay for a solicitor, paralegal or support staff member when they log in and train that month. Store your full headcount, including casuals and contractors, at no extra cost.

View Tribal Habits Pricing here!

How Monthly active user pricing works

What it looks like in practice

A firm with 120 staff across two offices commits to a 60 MAU plan. In a given month, active users might include new starters completing induction, solicitors completing CPD and mandatory training, staff completing AML/CTF refreshers, and managers reviewing updated policies. In a mandatory-training push, usage may rise for a month; extra users are charged at the plan rate. In quieter months, stored users who do not log in do not count toward usage.

What matters beyond the training content

Why do legal teams choose Tribal Habits?

CPD, mandatory and AML/CTF training, induction, trust and matter processes, and your own internal courses can all sit in one learning platform.

Training can be assigned by role, team, office or jurisdiction, with reporting that shows what has been completed, what is still due, and where follow-up is needed before a renewal or audit.

Pricing
Pricing

Pay for who trains, not stored users

Monthly active user pricing means casuals, contractors and seasonal staff only count when they log in. No per-seat fees for people who aren't using the platform. 

Support
Support

Australian-based support team

No offshore helpdesks. Our Customer Support comes from a local Australian-based team who understands how firms operate in ANZ and the compliance environment they work in. 

Security
Security

Australian hosted, ISO 27001 certified

Your training data, and the data of all the people connected to it, stays in Australia. ISO 27001 certification gives you the security expected when handling staff and client-adjacent information. 

Integrations
Integrations

Works with your existing tools

HRIS and practice systems, SSO, and thousands more via Zapier or the Public API. Automate enrolments and keep learner data in sync across offices without manual admin. 

The reporting process is also simple to use and great that users can monitor their own progress as well as managers and any other stakeholder required.”

Michelle - Policy, Risk and Compliance Manager

Rated 5 out of 5

Frequently Asked Questions

Can we use Tribal Habits to track CPD for our solicitors?

Yes. Internal training completions are logged automatically and external certificates can be uploaded, so activity can be grouped by CPD category, recorded as hours or points, and reported per practitioner for a renewal or audit. Because CPD rules differ by jurisdiction, training can be structured by state and role.

Can Tribal Habits help with our AML/CTF Tranche 2 training obligation?

Yes. The library includes anti-money laundering modules, including versions for new reporting entities, which you can assign, track and evidence, and you can add your own firm-specific procedures in the course builder. The platform manages the training and the records; it is not an AML/CTF transaction-monitoring or reporting system. Library modules are general information, not legal advice, and a module your firm edits is no longer in its reviewed form.

Can we create training for our own trust, matter and precedent processes?

Yes. This is one of the strongest legal use cases for Tribal Habits. Your team can build training around firm-specific processes using the integrated course builder, and existing documents, videos and templates can be incorporated into the training.

Do we need an instructional designer to create our own courses?

No specialist authoring software is required. Tribal Habits uses a guided course-building process designed for internal subject-matter experts, HR and operations staff, not only L&D specialists. Sage AI provides additional assistance during content creation.

Can different practitioners and offices receive different training?

Yes. Enrolment rules, groups, teams and learning pathways control which training different learners receive, including by role, office or jurisdiction.

Can we assign training automatically when someone joins?

Yes. Enrolment automation means new starters and lateral hires can be enrolled into induction and role-based training without someone assigning it manually each time.

The Tribal Habits library includes relevant compliance, conduct, safety and workplace-skills modules. It is not positioned as a library of substantive-law or practice-specific CPD content. Those firm- and practice-specific topics can be created using your own knowledge and documentation.

Can our training be updated when an obligation or policy changes?

Yes. Content created in Tribal Habits can be edited inside the platform. Copied library content is also editable. Note that editing a library compliance module means it is no longer legally verified in its original form.

Where is Tribal Habits hosted?

Tribal Habits data is hosted in Australia. The platform is ISO 27001 certified.

How does pricing work?

Tribal Habits primarily uses Monthly Active User pricing. Users count toward usage when they log in during a calendar month. Your firm can store users who are not currently training without paying for them as active users.