10 Ways GLS Overflow™ Can Help Your In-House Team With Today’s Problems

Introduction

The in-house legal team that is too busy to spend time on strategies to become less busy will not prove effective in a future where in-house workloads are growing much faster than available resources.

In-house teams frequently find themselves struggling with “today’s problems” to such an extent that it prevents them from enhancing their readiness to deal with tomorrow’s problems.

Worse still, even where teams have prepared a transformation strategy, they often end up lacking capacity to implement it as they deal with the pressures of supporting today’s requirements.

Unfortunately, getting support to deal with today’s problems has not traditionally been easy. 

Freeing up your own capacity to focus on your team’s future – is one of the first steps of the critical success pathway for effective transformation.

Your Response To “Today's Problems” Determines Your Ability To Deal With Tomorrow 

The GLS Group recognises that unless you come up with ways to help you get through today – you will not be able to focus on creating a better tomorrow.

But solving a today problem is unique in that it typically requires rapid responsiveness, decisive action, resourcing scalability, internally aligned thinking, practicality and experience.  

Neither law firms nor temporary-manpower providers are able to align with the needs of your today problems – principally because they do not seek to operate as you do.

GLS Overflow™ is our scalable, on-demand and always-on in-house capacity solution that seeks to replicate the best features of your in-house team and operate as a seamless extension of your team.

GLS Overflow™ only takes a few short minutes to mobilise, and can help you to address “today’s challenges” like few other resources available on the market today. 

Here are 10 ways in which GLS Overflow™ can immediately help you to address:

1. Urgent Reviews: urgent contract reviews/reports delivered in hours

2. Urgent First Drafts: for when you need world class documentation instantly 

3. Immediate Negotiation Support: access instant negotiation support anywhere in the world

4. Urgent Team Coverage: if a team member is down at short notice, this gives you the capacity coverage you need

5. Expertise On Demand: instantly access the specialist knowledge and expertise you might need

6. Proof Reading: get your document right with rapid-turnaround legal proofing

7. Rapid Mobilisation: to support a new project / deadline 

8. Checklists: ensure you are asking the right questions on the issue you are looking at

9. Burst Capacity: access additional resources to support transactional work

10. Small Jobs: when it’s a small job, but you have far too many “small jobs” clogging up your desk 

More Than Just An Extra Set Of Hands 

GLS Overflow™ gives you access to not just to GLS’s lawyers, but also to the platform that we’ve built to allow them to operate at peak performance levels at a price point similar to your own internal cost. 

You will quickly discover that the manner in which we deliver GLS Overflow™ will represent opportunities to introduce a wide range of efficiencies into your wider legal team ecosystem. 

Our performance managed capacity solution is actively managed to ensure that it makes the most productive contribution to the efficient working of your in-house legal team. 

So, to ensure that you are able to get through today without breaking, and to free up capacity for more strategic things, including transforming your team, GLS Overflow™ is a ready-to-go resource.

To learn more about GLS Overflow™ you can download our GLS Overflow - Resource Overview or get in touch with us to discuss your requirements. 

Ready To Transform Your Legal Team?

Please check out the GLS solutions and know-how resources listed on the right side of this page – they might assist your legal team with the issues explored in this Blog. 

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