Government Legal Department lawyers will in future be able to perform ‘virtually any role within GLD, at any level’ from any of its UK-wide locations, the department has promised. The pledge forms part of one of three headline ambitions in a strategy for 2024-27 published yesterday.
The department, one of the country’s largest legal organisations, aims to become a ‘national GLD’, treasury solicitor Susanna McGibbon states in a foreword to the organisation’s nine-page strategy document.
GLD, which employs over 3,000 staff, including 2,500 lawyers and paralegals, provides a legal service to most Whitehall departments.
GLD’s national estate in London, Manchester, Leeds and Bristol will provide staff with ‘modern, flexible offices so we all experience the benefits of efficient in-person working, and virtually any role within GLD, at any level, can be performed successfully from any of our locations’. GLD’s technology ‘will support seamless hybrid working, smoothly connecting our people with each other, clients, and stakeholders, wherever they are working’.
As part of its second strategic objective – ‘rewarding careers for all’ – GLD will invest in learning opportunities to build a diverse cohort of highly skilled professionals and leaders, including senior civil servants based in all of its locations.
Its third strategic objective – an ‘environment fit for the future’ – will see GLD be ‘proactive and strategic’ in how legal services are delivered, including how external lawyers and technology are used.
McGibbon said GLD wanted to ‘go from being a great department to an outstanding one’.
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