WHAT WE DO
Leading Innovation In Legal Solutions
GLS Group is a leading global legal industry innovator and disruptor whose goal is to help in-house legal teams address their capacity issues and performance enhancement requirements in typically resource constrained environments.
We do this through 7 business units which develops and distributes force multiplying legal team solutions. Our innovative technology-enabled legal solutions facilitate more efficient access to, and delivery of, a wide range of common legal support scenarios to businesses globally.
Of note, the GLS Legal Operations Centre, the Group's flagship offering, delivers 24/7/365 access to the world's largest and most comprehensive online legal department resource stack of tools, templates, trainings and capacity solutions.
OUR STORY
Behind The Vision
Big Law Tech Lawyers
Our founders were partners at major law firms such as DLA Piper and Linklaters, and served as Chief Legal Officers in various in-house roles.
Vision For Tech-Enabled Law Firm
As tech law experts, it was frustrating for our founders to be part of a business that resisted embracing technology and innovation.
Founding Of GLS
Our founders started GLS in 2014 as a boutique law firm committed to tech-led efficiency and it worked. We were incredibly busy.
Clients Wanted Access To Our Tech Stack
In response to client demands, we launched the GLS Legal Operations Centre, giving them direct access to the tools and technology we used but they needed.
Becoming An Industry Leader
Today, the GLS Legal Operations Centre is the largest and most comprehensive online in-house legal team resource stack.
VISIONARIES
Our Leaders
Matthew Glynn
Matthew Glynn is the Group Managing Director of the GLS Group. A former Big Law technology lawyer, Matthew has been responsible for the development of hundreds of technology-enabled tools that extend what in-house legal resources can achieve. He is an industry leader when it comes to helping in-house teams achieve far greater performance outcomes with fewer resources. Matthew also regularly implements productivity solutions to legal teams of all sizes across the globe and routinely helps them achieve external legal budget compression ratios in excess of 1:10 and time task compression that exceed 1:20.
Simon Bryan
Simon Bryan is a Managing Director of the GLS Group. As a former partner in Big Law, and as a former GC / CLO of some of the largest organisations in the MENA region, Simon was an early agitator for change within the legal services industry and is a driver of new law solutions and the implementation of legal operations-led strategies to deliver legal support solutions to clients with verifiably proven outcomes (i.e. better, faster and cheaper). Simon works with clients to increase, measure and demonstrate the performance and productivity of their legal functions whilst simultaneously reducing the resource demands of the same.
