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title: Configure Legal Simple Privacy
description: Configure the foundation data to enable submitting a privacy impact assessment request to the legal department.
locale: en-US
canonical_url: https://www.servicenow.com/docs/r/australia/employee-service-management/legal-simple-privacy/setting-up-legal-simple-privacy.html
release: australia
product: Legal Simple Privacy
classification: legal-simple-privacy
topic_type: concept
last_updated: "2026-03-12"
reading_time_minutes: 2
breadcrumb: [Legal Simple Privacy, Legal Service Delivery Practice Applications, Legal Service Delivery, Legal and Contract Operations, Employee Service Management]
---

# Configure Legal Simple Privacy

Configure the foundation data to enable submitting a privacy impact assessment request to the legal department.

As an administrator, review the installed components and modify them or add new ones as applicable.

-   **[Create or modify a practice area](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/employee-service-management/legal-request-management/manage-practice-areas.md)**

    Set up the practice areas specific to law practices such as Intellectual Property, Privacy, or Compliance. Associate categories to the practice area and assign a legal department user as the practice area lead.

-   **[Create or modify a legal catalog category](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/employee-service-management/legal-request-management/add-catalog-categories.md)**

    Create catalog categories to group legal services that employees can use to find a specific legal service request on the Legal Service Portal.

-   **[Configure an external storage system for legal requests and legal matters](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/employee-service-management/legal-request-management/integrate-legal-ext-storage.md)**

    Configure an external storage system to store documents attached to the Legal Simple Privacy requests by the requester or the fulfiller, which enables your organization to have a centralized documentation management and retention policy.

-   **[Create or modify a response template for legal services](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/employee-service-management/legal-request-management/create-lsd-response-template.md)**

    Configure a response template with a reusable message that legal fulfillers can use to send users quick and consistent messages through work notes, comments, emails, or chat conversations.

    For chat response templates, you can specify a short name that can be used as a shortcut to present the response message to a user quickly.

-   **[Create an email notification](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/platform-administration/t_CreateANotification.md)**

    Create or modify email notifications that are sent when specific events occur,for example, when a request is assigned, closed, or canceled, or a message has been posted to request additional information.

-   **[Configuring the form layout](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/platform-administration/configure-form-layout.md)**

    To track dispositions from Legal Simple Privacy requests, add the Legal Disposition \[sn\_lg\_ops\_legal\_disposition\] table as a related list to any Legal Simple Privacy Request form.


-   **[Install Legal Simple Privacy](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/employee-service-management/legal-simple-privacy/install-legal-simple-privacy.md)**  
Install the a Legal Simple Privacy \(sn\_lg\_privacy​\) application if you have the admin role. The application includes demo data and installs related ServiceNow® Store applications and plugins if they aren’t already installed.
-   **[Reconfigure forms to use new components](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/employee-service-management/legal-simple-privacy/reconfigure-post-install-privacy.md)**  
As an administrator, after installing Legal Simple Privacy reconfigure forms to use the new privacy assessment record producer, catalog category, and content taxonomy.

**Parent Topic:**[Legal Simple Privacy](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/employee-service-management/legal-simple-privacy/legal-simple-privacy-landing-page.md)