About us

Caryn leads the Gilbert + Tobin Legal Service Innovation team and G+T Innovate. These teams provide specialised services to support our legal services delivery; and innovate to deliver new tools and services benefiting Gilbert + Tobin’s practice and our clients. Under Caryn’s leadership, Gilbert + Tobin has been recognised as a market leader, including most recently for: ‘Most Innovative Law Firm in the Asia-Pacific’ and ‘Innovation in Technology’ at the Financial Times Asia Pacific Innovative Lawyers Awards 2019, and ‘Most Innovative Firm’ in the 2020 AFR Client Choice Awards for the third year in a row. Caryn was awarded “Innovator of the Year” at the Lawyers Weekly Partner of the Year Awards 2021 as well as the Women in Law Awards 2020 and 2019.

Sam is responsible for the firm’s operational functions and plays a leadership role in the development and implementation of the firm’s overall strategy. With a focus on technology and innovation, he drives the firm to challenge the status quo, particularly in the delivery of legal services, as well as consulting directly to clients on critical initiatives. Sam is widely recognised as one of Australia’s leading legal innovators and in 2019 he was named Legal Innovator of the Year at the Financial Times Innovative Lawyers Awards, Asia-Pacific. Sam also represents the firm on the board of LegalVision, a technology-based legal start-up which is partly owned by Gilbert + Tobin.

Linda is the firm’s lead Agile and Design Thinking consultant. Linda is a highly experienced and commercially focused facilitator and project manager, with comprehensive legal practice and project management experience. She stands out from the market by embracing diversity and innovative thinking to foster a stimulating team environment. Linda has a demonstrated ability to continuously innovate, design and deliver desired transformational project outcomes. Linda holds a Master of Laws from the University of Cambridge, is an Admitted Advocate of the High Court of South Africa, a past member of the Association of Corporate Counsel, New Zealand; and a current member of the Australian Institute of Project Management (with CPPM). Linda is certified in Agile Project Management, Agile Coaching, Effective Stakeholder Engagement, and Prince2 Foundation. She is a Lean Bootcamp graduate, and has also successfully completed two Design Thinking Programmes. Linda was awarded “Legal Operations Professional of the Year” at the Lawyers Weekly Women in Law Awards 2021.

Lisa is the head of the national knowledge and practice innovation team, with expertise in leading a variety of knowledge, document automation and workflow automation projects. She is a knowledge management professional with significant expertise in information architecture design, legal technology and business process improvement. She also has experience in applying innovation methodologies such as design thinking, with training at Echos School of Design Thinking. Prior to working in legal knowledge management, she worked as a commercial lawyer at a top-tier law firm.

Mark is Director, Capability for G+T Innovate. He helps clients transform their legal functions to address the many challenges of today’s fast-moving and dynamic business environment. Mark began his career as a lawyer in Sydney and London, and has held roles such as General Counsel at the Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games. He has also worked in Silicon Valley where he led technology and media businesses, and for global management consulting firms, focusing on building capability in people and organisations. Mark’s expertise includes change and transformation, culture change, leadership development, innovation/design thinking, and individual and team development. An accomplished facilitator, Mark frequently works with C-Suite and other senior leaders to help them change and transform their businesses.

Kim works closely with matter teams and clients to project manage and streamline largescale projects, creating efficiencies and quality outputs for Gilbert + Tobin’s clients. Kim specialises in implementing artificial intelligence tools and legal technology, and has experience on the practical side of legal technology selection, piloting, roll-out and change management using iterative design thinking methodology.

Guy designs and delivers innovative solutions to Gilbert + Tobin’s clients utilising the latest in legal technology and change management methodology, that improves efficiency, reduces risk and enables legal teams to scale. He has a wealth of experience designing and implementing custom legal technology solutions for large companies across Asia Pacific, Europe, North America and Africa. Prior to specialising in legal technology, Guy practiced corporate and commercial law in South Africa where he is admitted as a solicitor.

Gareth is a corporate advisory legal knowledge management expert. He has worked for over 13 years in the legal knowledge management and solutions space, including in magic circle and top-tier global law firms. Gareth has a wealth of systems and solutions design experience and is a graduate of the Emeritus hosted MIT Sloan Design Thinking short course. He has deep document automation experience, gained over 8 years across multiple platforms and applications.

Matthew is Director of Legal Informatics and R+D at Gilbert + Tobin. He leads a specialised in-house multidisciplinary legal informatics team that utilises a variety of data analytics, eDiscovery, and other AI technology tools. These technology tools are used to facilitate large scale document/data production and review for commercial litigation, regulatory compliance (ATO, ASIC, ACCC) and due diligence for mergers and acquisition transactions. Matthew has more than 20 years of experience in the legal technology industry and is Chair of the Association of Litigation Support Managers (ALSM), NSW chapter, and an advisory board member of Information Governance ANZ.