Managed
Legal Operations
DBA Advisory builds and runs the legal infrastructure of your business — contract workflows, entity governance and compliance administration — converting unpredictable legal spend into a fixed-cost, high-velocity utility, wherever you operate.
What are managed legal operations (MLO)?
H2: What are managed legal operations (MLO)?
Managed legal operations is the outsourcing of routine legal workflow — contract drafting and review cycles, entity and register maintenance, board-minute and filing administration, compliance calendars — under documented processes and fixed fees. DBA Advisory delivers it to businesses internationally; unlike traditional legal process outsourcing, MLO optimises the workflow itself rather than just relocating the work.
Is your firm ready for AML/CTF Tranche 2?
Since 1 July 2026, accountants, lawyers, conveyancers and real estate agents providing designated services are AUSTRAC reporting entities — carrying financial-crime reporting obligations under the Australian regime. Enrolment, a risk-based AML/CTF program, customer due diligence and ongoing monitoring are now mandatory.
DBA Advisory designs, implements and runs working AML/CTF programs — not templates.
How DBA Helps
Six systems that make the routine legal layer fast, consistent and provable.
Contract Workflow Automation
Approved templates and risk thresholds enforced by the workflow itself, so routine contract cycles fall from weeks to hours and every document that leaves the business meets the standard your counsel set.
Entity Governance
Every filing, board minute and subsidiary milestone visible in one audit-ready framework — including ASIC registers for Australian entities and the equivalent corporate registry obligations in each other jurisdiction where you hold entities.
Regulatory Readiness
Obligations tracked to source, changes mapped to affected documents and processes, and updates landed once, centrally, rather than rediscovered by each team.
Knowledge Preservation
Precedents, positions and negotiation history captured in a permanent repository that stays with the business, not with whoever handled the file.
Continuous Defence Readiness
Version history, execution records and registers exist as a by-product of the workflow — retrieval, not reconstruction, when a dispute or regulator asks.
Fixed-Cost Managed Legal Operations
Billable-hour volatility converted into predictable, budgetable expenditure, with external counsel spend reserved for the judgement calls that genuinely need it.
Legal Services and Governance
Wherever You Operate
Specialised insights on legal services administration, corporate secretarial management, entity maintenance, and regulatory filing schedules across domestic and international jurisdictions. Every insight is dated, author-attributed, jurisdiction-tagged, and verified against active corporate law and regulatory standards.
About Legal Services and
Corporate Governance
Clear explanations of how we support corporate secretarial workflows, manage statutory registers, maintain director compliance, and coordinate directly with your appointed legal counsel.
DBA Advisory prices managed legal operations as a fixed monthly fee scoped to your document volumes, entity count and compliance calendar, quoted in the currency of the engagement. There are no billable hours; the fee changes only when the agreed scope does.
Managed legal operations is process, workflow and administration. DBA Advisory does not provide legal advice in a jurisdiction where it is not a licensed law practice, and an individual adviser’s admission as a solicitor does not make the firm a law practice or extend its entitlement to provide legal services. Our legal services division provides legal process and operations support rather than legal advice, and is led by a director admitted to practise in both Australia and the Philippines. Legal advice itself comes from admitted lawyers — your own counsel, or an appropriately qualified practitioner of your choosing.
LPO relocates work; MLO re-engineers it. We apply process design and automation to the workflow itself, then deliver it under SLAs with fixed pricing. The gain is structural rather than labour arbitrage, which is why it survives volume growth.
Yes. Company registers, officeholder changes, annual filings and board-minute administration are maintained on one compliance calendar with a verifiable audit trail — ASIC obligations for Australian entities and the equivalent registry obligations elsewhere, with local counsel or company secretarial providers engaged where a filing requires them.
High-volume, template-driven documents: vendor agreements, employment contracts, NDAs, engagement letters. Most organisations see manual touchpoints on routine documentation fall by well over half once workflows are standardised.
It strengthens it. Manual processes drift; automated workflows enforce your approved templates and risk thresholds on every document, with version history to prove it. When a position is challenged, you can show which template, which approval and which version.
Command your velocity
Stop letting legal admin interfere with the vision. Run the routine layer as a system — and spend your counsel budget on judgement, not paperwork.
Get in touch
Alquin Dagamina
Business Transformation and Technology Services, Manager
- Alquin.Dagamina@dbaadvisory.com
- 09158918379
