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What Legal Compliance Check is for
Legal Compliance Check reads a company's records and, for the country, jurisdiction and city you choose, works out which laws apply and what each one requires. It is a one-off analysis you can run whenever you need it; for ongoing tracking of a company's obligations, use Compliance Tracking in Entity Management.
Who it's for
In-house counsel and compliance teams
A first map of the laws and requirements for a new entity, market or business line, ready for review.
Founders and advisers
A plain list of what a company must do, and what is at stake, before setting up or expanding somewhere new.
What it solves
Knowing which laws actually apply
A business can answer to federal, state and city rules at the same time. The check maps the company's activities to the laws at each level, so an obligation isn't missed because it sits at a different level.
Turning a statute into a to-do list
Each law comes back as concrete requirements: how often it applies, by when, what happens if it is missed and how to resolve it.
A report you can hand over
Download the whole analysis as a Word file to share with management, a client or outside counsel, and keep every run in one history.
How to use Legal Compliance Check
Each step shows the real screen. Hover a numbered marker — or the matching note — to see what every control does.
Open Compliance and start a new analysis
Click Compliance in the top navigation. The page opens ready for a new analysis, with your earlier runs listed on the left. Add the company's records from your computer, or pick files you already keep in LinkinLegal.
- Upload PDF, PNG, JPG, JPEG or WEBP files — Word files need converting to PDF first.
- Select From Dashboard opens your Vault folders; click files to select them, then Done.
- Up to 12 documents and 80 MB in total per run, 50 MB per file.
On this screen
Choose where the company operates
Under Legal Location, pick the country, then the jurisdiction and city if you know them. Add any context that would change which laws apply, then click Analyze & Generate Compliance Report.
- Country is required; jurisdiction and city sharpen the state and city laws that are found.
- Where a country has no listed states, type the jurisdiction and city instead.
- Each document in the run counts as one unit of your plan's compliance allowance.
On this screen
Tip: Use Additional Context for changes the records don't show yet — a new market, online payments, a new line of business.
Let the analysis run in the background
The run works through three stages: it reads the documents to build a company profile, finds the laws that apply, then extracts the requirements of each law. The page updates on its own.
- Each law has its own status: Pending, Processing, Completed or Error.
- You can leave the page; reopen the run from Recent Activity at any time.
- LinkinLegal also emails you when the report is ready to review.
On this screen
Check the results and the company profile
When the run completes, Analysis Results shows how many laws were analyzed and how many completed or failed. Below it, the company profile shows what was understood from your documents.
- A warning appears if any law failed during extraction.
- Retry Failed queues every failed or pending law again; completed laws are kept.
On this screen
Tip: Read the company profile first. If the industry or business nature is wrong, start a new analysis with clearer records or more context.
Review the laws at each level
Laws are grouped by level: Country / Central, State / Jurisdiction and City / Local. Each group shows how many of its laws completed, and each law shows its own status.
- Click a group or a law to open or close it; several can be open at once.
- A law with Error explains what went wrong and has its own Retry button.
On this screen
Read each requirement and download the report
Open a law to see its compliance requirements. Each one explains what to do, how complex it is, how often and by when, the consequence of missing it and how to resolve it — with the sources used listed under the law.
- Complexity is rated LOW, MEDIUM or HIGH.
- Download Report saves the whole run as a Word (.docx) file.
On this screen
Tip: Need deadlines, owners and reminders for a company? Set up Compliance Tracking for it in Entity Management.
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Everything Legal Compliance Check can do
The building blocks behind the walkthrough, and what each one does for you.
Laws that apply, level by level
From the country, jurisdiction and city you choose, the analysis finds the laws that apply and groups them as Country / Central, State / Jurisdiction and City / Local.
Requirements you can act on
Every law is broken into requirements with complexity, frequency, timeline, consequence and resolution.
Reads your records
Upload PDFs or images, or pick files from your Vault with Select From Dashboard.
Company profile
Name, industry, location and business nature, with PII and financial summaries, drawn from the documents.
Runs in the background
Follow each stage and law as it completes, or leave and come back when it's done.
Retry what failed
Run one law again, or every failed law at once, without starting over.
Word export
Download Report saves the full analysis as a .docx file to share or annotate.
Every run in one history
Recent Activity lists each run with its status and how many laws completed.
Tips for getting it right
Country is the only required field
Add the jurisdiction and city whenever you know them — that is what brings state and city laws into the report.
Convert Word files to PDF first
The check accepts PDF, PNG, JPG, JPEG and WEBP. Files in other formats can't be picked from your Vault or uploaded.
Stay within the limits
A run takes up to 12 documents and 80 MB in total. If you go over, you'll see “Please review the input and try again.” — remove a few files.
Retry rather than start over
If a law shows Error, retry that law or use Retry Failed. Completed laws and their requirements are kept.
Check it before relying on it
The report is an AI-assisted analysis of your documents. Open the sources under each law and confirm with counsel before acting on it.
Ongoing tracking lives elsewhere
This check is a one-off snapshot. To track a company's obligations with deadlines, owners and evidence, use Compliance Tracking in Entity Management.
Statuses you'll see
Work that runs in the background always shows where it stands — here is what each label means.
- In ProgressThe run is reading documents, finding laws or extracting requirements.
- CompletedThe run has finished. For a single law, its requirements are ready to read.
- FailedThe run couldn't produce a report. Open it to see why and retry.
- PendingA law has been found and is waiting for its requirements to be extracted.
- ProcessingRequirements are being extracted for this law right now.
- ErrorThis law's requirements couldn't be extracted. Use Retry on the law.
Legal Compliance Check is a one-off analysis: upload records, choose a location and get the laws that apply with their requirements. Compliance Tracking lives inside a company in Entity Management and keeps an ongoing checklist with deadlines, owners, evidence and reminders.
PDF, PNG, JPG, JPEG and WEBP files, uploaded from your computer or picked from your Vault with Select From Dashboard. A run takes up to 12 documents and 80 MB in total, with no file over 50 MB.
No. The analysis runs in the background. Reopen it from Recent Activity whenever you like — LinkinLegal also emails you when the report is ready.
Up to 15, grouped by country, state or jurisdiction, and city. Each law lists its requirements with complexity, frequency, timeline, consequence and resolution, plus the sources that were used.
It shows Error with a short explanation, and the report warns you. Use Retry on that law, or Retry Failed to run every failed or pending law again — completed laws are kept.
Yes. Each document included in a run counts as one unit of your plan's compliance allowance.
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- Where to find it
- Top navigation → Compliance