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Legal Ops Tools: The Contract Playbook

A “contract Playbook” is a legal function tool that helps a company (well its commercial,…

4 min • 11 Mar 23

GLS Legal Ops: 25 Signs Your Legal Team Needs to Transform

Legal Ops Essentials: 25 Signs Transformation Is Required Identifying legal team inefficienciesIn…

3 mins • 16 Feb 23

GLS Legal Ops Opinion: In-house legal teams must transform

GLS Legal Ops Opinion: In-house legal teams must transformWhy in-house legal teams must…

4 mins • 08 Feb 23

GLS Legal Operations: The 4 Stages of Legal Dept. Transformation

Stage 1: Assessing the Current State of your in-house legal team: Legal department leaders must…

5 mins • 17 Nov 22

GLS Legal Ops: 20 Tips for Blueprinting your Legal Team’s Transformation

Legal Operations Essentials: The Legal Team Transformation Blueprint Successful transformation…

5 mins • 17 Nov 22

Legal Team Efficiency: a Legal Operations Model that Works

Legal Team Efficiency: a Legal Operations Model that WorksA legal operations capability is a key…

12 mins • 18 Jul 22

What are Legal Operations?

What Are Legal Operations?They support the business’s legal function, taking a…

4 mins • 12 Jul 22

Legal Ops: A Simple Decision-Making Framework to Drive Legal Team Transformation

Legal Ops: Decision-making that drives legal efficiencyIn our recent Blog "What is legal…

9 mins • 23 Jun 22

Can legal operations benefit all legal teams?

Can legal operations benefit all legal teams?Legal ops is for all legal teamsLegal operations…

4 mins • 22 Jun 22

Top 10 In-House Legal Team Resolutions for a New Year

If you haven't set the goals for your legal team just yet, below are the Top 10 “New…

6 mins • 08 Apr 22

Legal Ops Essentials: 20 Tips to help you successfully implement your legal team transformation plan

20 Tips for the Successful Implementations of Legal Dept. Transformation PlansIn this Blog, we…

5 mins • 03 Apr 22

Legal Operations Essentials: The Legal Services Request Form

Legal Operations Essentials: The Legal Services Request FormThe gatekeeper to an effectively run…

15 mins • 04 Feb 22

How to avoid legal transformation project failure (Part K - GLS’s Ultimate Guide to Legal Operations)

Protect your legal team transformation project from failureIn this Blog, we share some of the…

5 mins • 03 Feb 22

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Legal Ops: Deploying an agile resourcing strategy for legal professionals

The resourcing of legal departments traditionally centered around full-time staff and more…

15 mins • 05 Dec 21

Legal Ops Essentials: Building Your Case For Legal Team Transformation

Building Your Case For Legal Team TransformationToo much work and not enough resourcesEvery GC we…

2 mins • 01 Dec 21

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Visualizing an Optimal In-House Legal Function (Part F - GLS’s Ultimate Guide to Legal Operations)

Legal Ops Essentials: Navigating an optimally performing legal teamAccess a vision of what you…

5 mins • 23 Nov 21

The In-House Leader’s Leadership Dilemma (Part E - GLS’s Ultimate Guide to Legal Operations)

Legal Ops Lesson: Managing Legal Team Transformation RiskThe In-House Leader's Dilemma -…

5 mins • 22 Nov 21

The Benefits of Effective Legal Operations (Part D- GLS’s Ultimate Guide to Legal Operations)

The Benefits of Effective Legal OperationsIf you have had prior dealings with GLS, you will have…

12 mins • 22 Nov 21

What is meant by Legal Operations (Part B - GLS’s Ultimate Guide to Legal Operations)

This is a sample chapter from the recently published ‘GLS Ultimate Guide to Legal Operations’…

15 mins • 21 Nov 21

Legal Team Skills: Rid Your Documents Of Typos

Rid Your Documents Of Typos With GLS Proofreading Tips9 mins • 27 Dec 22 Typos cause…

5 mins • 06 Dec 20

GLS Legal Ops Masterclass 6 - Legal Tech: Embracing it Safely

GLS Legal Ops Masterclass 6 - Legal Tech: Embracing it SafelySpeakers This seminar will draw upon…

45 mins • 30 Jul 20

GLS Legal Ops Masterclass 5: The Future Ready Lawyer

GLS Legal Ops Masterclass 5: The Future Ready LawyerSpeakers This seminar will draw upon the…

1 hr • 25 Jun 20

GLS Legal Ops Masterclass 4: Legal Team Performance - Data Analytics & Tracking Tangible Outcomes

GLS Legal Ops Masterclass 4: Legal Team Performance - Data Analytics & Tracking Tangible…

75 mins • 28 May 20

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GLS Legal Ops Masterclass 3 - Leveraging Legal Department Resources (A Case Study)

GLS Legal Ops Masterclass 3 - Leveraging Legal Department Resources (A Case Study)Speakers This…

80 mins • 23 Apr 20

Legal Ops Tools: The Simple Checklist

A checklist is a potent knowledge technology that is drastically under-utilized by the legal…

5 mins • 02 Apr 20

GLS Legal Ops Masterclass 2: Foundational Legal Department Policies & Prioritization Theory

GLS Legal Ops Masterclass 2: Foundational Policy Legal Department Policies & Prioritization…

80 mins • 30 Mar 20

GLS & The Middle East Legal Awards 2020

GLS was successful in being recognized by its legal industry peers in winning the Middle East…

2 mins • 24 Mar 20

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Legal Ops Tools: The Legal Department Service Charter

Legal Ops Essentials: The Legal Department SLAAre you happy with how the performance of your…

10 mins • 11 Feb 20

Contracting Policies: Eliminate weakness in your contracting function

GENTLE INTRODUCTIONThe Contracting Policy ("CP") is perhaps the simplest and most…

15 minutes • 20 Jan 20

Performance Managing Your External Legal Counsel

In-house legal teams (IHL) have for years universally agreed that law firms must drastically…

15 minutes • 15 Jan 20

GLS Legal Docs

Think about the quality of cars, air travel, TVs, mobile phones, clothing, medicine - they’ve…

1 min • 12 Sep 19

What A.I. means for the Legal Industry

Well, it is at least true to say that “Legal Tech” is a theme that has been dominating the…

15 mins • 01 Aug 19

GLS Legal Ops Masterclass 1: In-House Legal Team Challenges and a Framework for Legal Ops decision making

GLS Legal Ops Masterclass 1: In-House Legal Team Challenges and a Framework for Legal Ops…

1 hr • 17 Jul 19

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Top 10 Rules For Developing A World Class Legal Template Library

One of the greatest sources of inefficiencies (and frustration) inside an In House Legal…

10 mins • 09 Jul 19

In-House legal documents and online legal precedents

So you think in-house lawyers are not important?

In-house lawyers (“IHLs”) must verifiably deliver far more with far less, and in an overall…

8 minutes • 13 Jun 19

Top 10 Legal Docs - The Work Horses

Ten foundational legal documents underpin the majority of the vital processes present in most…

15 minutes • 13 Jun 19

Recognising Innovation

Journalist Cat Rutter Pooley of the Financial Times wrote some incredibly kind words about GLS…

5 minutes • 22 May 19

Create a custom Services Agreement with GLS

Why do I need a Services Agreement?

What is a Services Agreement?The Services Agreement is the “work horse” legal agreement of…

7 minutes • 17 May 19

GLS Quick Quotes

Few would argue that costs are a huge barrier to accessing external legal support. However, those…

7 minutes • 16 May 19

RPLV: Transformative Decision Making

The vocational journey of the in-house lawyer has long since ceased to be an attractive safe…

15 mins • 13 May 19

How to Avoid a High-Tech Train-Wreck

The recent proliferation of legal technology ("Legal Tech") related headlines suggests…

14 mins • 29 Jan 19

GLS Launches GLS Legal Templates

Contracts are the essential record of what parties agree and yet most end up signed, filed and…

12 minutes • 04 Jan 19

GLS Invests in Automio

GLS Group, the world’s leading legal industry disruptor, focuses on disrupting the traditional…

5 minutes • 29 Dec 18

GLS Goes Back to School

GLS’s mission, since its inception, has been to disrupt the second half of that statement and…

4 minutes • 13 Dec 18

Traditional Law is Broken (Part 2)

The true cost of the hourly rateGLS believes that more than 95% of businesses globally are unable…

12 minutes • 20 Jul 17

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Un-breaking the law

The hourly rate is no longer an effective meeting point for those that need legal support and…

2 minutes • 06 Apr 17

Traditional Law is Broken (Part 1)

The traditional law firm model (“TradLaw”) as we know it is broken; but fortunately, a new…

5 minutes • 14 Jul 16

Focus on kids

Without strong, healthy and educated children our sustained future is questionable. Yes there are…

3 minutes • 13 May 15

What makes GLS Law so accessible

GLS Law will only offer support where we know that we can do so in a way that represents a…

4 minutes • 29 Apr 15

Traditional Law: Why has law run off the track?

For those who are wondering what has happened to the traditional legal industry, please take a…

1 minute • 31 Dec 14

We visit hospital No. 2 in Gorlovka, Ukraine

Today was without doubt one of best days of my professional life for it was surely work in the…

4 minutes • 26 Nov 14

Focus on kids

Without strong, healthy and educated children our sustained future is questionable. Yes there are…

3 minutes • 13 May 15

We visit hospital No. 2 in Gorlovka, Ukraine

Today was without doubt one of best days of my professional life for it was surely work in the…

4 minutes • 26 Nov 14

Legal Ops Tools: The Contract Playbook

A “contract Playbook” is a legal function tool that helps a company (well its commercial,…

4 min • 11 Mar 23

GLS Legal Ops: 25 Signs Your Legal Team Needs to Transform

Legal Ops Essentials: 25 Signs Transformation Is Required Identifying legal team inefficienciesIn…

3 mins • 16 Feb 23

GLS Legal Ops Opinion: In-house legal teams must transform

GLS Legal Ops Opinion: In-house legal teams must transformWhy in-house legal teams must…

4 mins • 08 Feb 23

GLS Legal Operations: The 4 Stages of Legal Dept. Transformation

Stage 1: Assessing the Current State of your in-house legal team: Legal department leaders must…

5 mins • 17 Nov 22

GLS Legal Ops: 20 Tips for Blueprinting your Legal Team’s Transformation

Legal Operations Essentials: The Legal Team Transformation Blueprint Successful transformation…

5 mins • 17 Nov 22

Legal Team Efficiency: a Legal Operations Model that Works

Legal Team Efficiency: a Legal Operations Model that WorksA legal operations capability is a key…

12 mins • 18 Jul 22

What are Legal Operations?

What Are Legal Operations?They support the business’s legal function, taking a…

4 mins • 12 Jul 22

Legal Ops: A Simple Decision-Making Framework to Drive Legal Team Transformation

Legal Ops: Decision-making that drives legal efficiencyIn our recent Blog "What is legal…

9 mins • 23 Jun 22

Can legal operations benefit all legal teams?

Can legal operations benefit all legal teams?Legal ops is for all legal teamsLegal operations…

4 mins • 22 Jun 22

Legal Ops Essentials: 20 Tips to help you successfully implement your legal team transformation plan

20 Tips for the Successful Implementations of Legal Dept. Transformation PlansIn this Blog, we…

5 mins • 03 Apr 22

Legal Operations Essentials: The Legal Services Request Form

Legal Operations Essentials: The Legal Services Request FormThe gatekeeper to an effectively run…

15 mins • 04 Feb 22

How to avoid legal transformation project failure (Part K - GLS’s Ultimate Guide to Legal Operations)

Protect your legal team transformation project from failureIn this Blog, we share some of the…

5 mins • 03 Feb 22

Legal Ops: Deploying an agile resourcing strategy for legal professionals

The resourcing of legal departments traditionally centered around full-time staff and more…

15 mins • 05 Dec 21

Legal Ops Essentials: Building Your Case For Legal Team Transformation

Building Your Case For Legal Team TransformationToo much work and not enough resourcesEvery GC we…

2 mins • 01 Dec 21

Visualizing an Optimal In-House Legal Function (Part F - GLS’s Ultimate Guide to Legal Operations)

Legal Ops Essentials: Navigating an optimally performing legal teamAccess a vision of what you…

5 mins • 23 Nov 21

The In-House Leader’s Leadership Dilemma (Part E - GLS’s Ultimate Guide to Legal Operations)

Legal Ops Lesson: Managing Legal Team Transformation RiskThe In-House Leader's Dilemma -…

5 mins • 22 Nov 21

The Benefits of Effective Legal Operations (Part D- GLS’s Ultimate Guide to Legal Operations)

The Benefits of Effective Legal OperationsIf you have had prior dealings with GLS, you will have…

12 mins • 22 Nov 21

What is meant by Legal Operations (Part B - GLS’s Ultimate Guide to Legal Operations)

This is a sample chapter from the recently published ‘GLS Ultimate Guide to Legal Operations’…

15 mins • 21 Nov 21

Legal Team Skills: Rid Your Documents Of Typos

Rid Your Documents Of Typos With GLS Proofreading Tips9 mins • 27 Dec 22 Typos cause…

5 mins • 06 Dec 20

GLS Legal Ops Masterclass 6 - Legal Tech: Embracing it Safely

GLS Legal Ops Masterclass 6 - Legal Tech: Embracing it SafelySpeakers This seminar will draw upon…

45 mins • 30 Jul 20

GLS Legal Ops Masterclass 5: The Future Ready Lawyer

GLS Legal Ops Masterclass 5: The Future Ready LawyerSpeakers This seminar will draw upon the…

1 hr • 25 Jun 20

GLS Legal Ops Masterclass 4: Legal Team Performance - Data Analytics & Tracking Tangible Outcomes

GLS Legal Ops Masterclass 4: Legal Team Performance - Data Analytics & Tracking Tangible…

75 mins • 28 May 20

GLS Legal Ops Masterclass 3 - Leveraging Legal Department Resources (A Case Study)

GLS Legal Ops Masterclass 3 - Leveraging Legal Department Resources (A Case Study)Speakers This…

80 mins • 23 Apr 20

Legal Ops Tools: The Simple Checklist

A checklist is a potent knowledge technology that is drastically under-utilized by the legal…

5 mins • 02 Apr 20

GLS Legal Ops Masterclass 2: Foundational Legal Department Policies & Prioritization Theory

GLS Legal Ops Masterclass 2: Foundational Policy Legal Department Policies & Prioritization…

80 mins • 30 Mar 20

Legal Ops Tools: The Legal Department Service Charter

Legal Ops Essentials: The Legal Department SLAAre you happy with how the performance of your…

10 mins • 11 Feb 20

Contracting Policies: Eliminate weakness in your contracting function

GENTLE INTRODUCTIONThe Contracting Policy ("CP") is perhaps the simplest and most…

15 minutes • 20 Jan 20

Performance Managing Your External Legal Counsel

In-house legal teams (IHL) have for years universally agreed that law firms must drastically…

15 minutes • 15 Jan 20

GLS Legal Docs

Think about the quality of cars, air travel, TVs, mobile phones, clothing, medicine - they’ve…

1 min • 12 Sep 19

What A.I. means for the Legal Industry

Well, it is at least true to say that “Legal Tech” is a theme that has been dominating the…

15 mins • 01 Aug 19

GLS Legal Ops Masterclass 1: In-House Legal Team Challenges and a Framework for Legal Ops decision making

GLS Legal Ops Masterclass 1: In-House Legal Team Challenges and a Framework for Legal Ops…

1 hr • 17 Jul 19

Top 10 Rules For Developing A World Class Legal Template Library

One of the greatest sources of inefficiencies (and frustration) inside an In House Legal…

10 mins • 09 Jul 19

So you think in-house lawyers are not important?

In-house lawyers (“IHLs”) must verifiably deliver far more with far less, and in an overall…

8 minutes • 13 Jun 19

Top 10 Legal Docs - The Work Horses

Ten foundational legal documents underpin the majority of the vital processes present in most…

15 minutes • 13 Jun 19

Why do I need a Services Agreement?

What is a Services Agreement?The Services Agreement is the “work horse” legal agreement of…

7 minutes • 17 May 19

GLS Quick Quotes

Few would argue that costs are a huge barrier to accessing external legal support. However, those…

7 minutes • 16 May 19

RPLV: Transformative Decision Making

The vocational journey of the in-house lawyer has long since ceased to be an attractive safe…

15 mins • 13 May 19

How to Avoid a High-Tech Train-Wreck

The recent proliferation of legal technology ("Legal Tech") related headlines suggests…

14 mins • 29 Jan 19

GLS Launches GLS Legal Templates

Contracts are the essential record of what parties agree and yet most end up signed, filed and…

12 minutes • 04 Jan 19

GLS Goes Back to School

GLS’s mission, since its inception, has been to disrupt the second half of that statement and…

4 minutes • 13 Dec 18

Traditional Law is Broken (Part 2)

The true cost of the hourly rateGLS believes that more than 95% of businesses globally are unable…

12 minutes • 20 Jul 17

Un-breaking the law

The hourly rate is no longer an effective meeting point for those that need legal support and…

2 minutes • 06 Apr 17

Traditional Law is Broken (Part 1)

The traditional law firm model (“TradLaw”) as we know it is broken; but fortunately, a new…

5 minutes • 14 Jul 16

What makes GLS Law so accessible

GLS Law will only offer support where we know that we can do so in a way that represents a…

4 minutes • 29 Apr 15

Traditional Law: Why has law run off the track?

For those who are wondering what has happened to the traditional legal industry, please take a…

1 minute • 31 Dec 14

Have Your Say

Inherently in-house lawyers will often work in a more isolated environment than their private practice counterparts. As such, chances to share experience, cross fertilize ideas and benefit from new learnings have traditionally been unfortunately restricted.

The ambition of the GLS 10,000 IN-HOUSE VOICES project is to use technology to start to change that dynamic. So we regularly survey the in-house community and freely share the results / consolidated wisdom gathered.

Each survey is free and open to any in-house lawyer to contribute to. The results of every survey are consolidated, and are free to anyone that would like to learn from the data gathered.

Thank you for contributing your input and interest to this project, and helping to strengthen the in-house community.

Welcome to the GLS Legal Ops Community.

Technology Demonstration

Visualizing an Optimal In-House Legal Function (Part F - GLS’s Ultimate Guide to Legal Operations)

Legal Ops Essentials: Navigating an optimally performing legal teamAccess a vision of what you…

5 mins • 23 Nov 21

Technology Demonstration

What A.I. means for the Legal Industry

Well, it is at least true to say that “Legal Tech” is a theme that has been dominating the…

15 mins • 01 Aug 19

Technology Demonstration

How to Avoid a High-Tech Train-Wreck

The recent proliferation of legal technology ("Legal Tech") related headlines suggests…

14 mins • 29 Jan 19

Legal Ops Tips

Legal Ops Tools: The Contract Playbook

A “contract Playbook” is a legal function tool that helps a company (well its commercial,…

4 min • 11 Mar 23

Top 10 In-House Legal Team Resolutions for a New Year

If you haven't set the goals for your legal team just yet, below are the Top 10 “New…

6 mins • 08 Apr 22

GLS & The Middle East Legal Awards 2020

GLS was successful in being recognized by its legal industry peers in winning the Middle East…

2 mins • 24 Mar 20

Recognising Innovation

Journalist Cat Rutter Pooley of the Financial Times wrote some incredibly kind words about GLS…

5 minutes • 22 May 19

GLS Launches GLS Legal Templates

Contracts are the essential record of what parties agree and yet most end up signed, filed and…

12 minutes • 04 Jan 19