Solicitors’ signatures on the declaration forms

You must sign all the declaration forms.

All signatures should be recognisable as your signature.

You can either sign and date the paper declaration forms that are printable from our website or add a “wet” signature to the LAOL “printable summary”, even where this has been pre-populated by the system.

You can use an electronic version of a paper form to apply a signature using a stylus (for example, iPencil) or other online signing platform such as DocuSign or Adobe Sign.

However, you must save the form and keep a copy of the PDF version in the file (whether paper or electronic).

We expect this for peer review and compliance audits where checks are made for the signed declarations in the files being reviewed.