Kyle
Gribben

The Digital Services Group comprises four teams under Kyle’s leadership: Legal Process Optimisation, which manages the firm’s internal technologies, including document automation; Client Solutions, which works alongside Matheson’s legal teams to deliver technology-enabled projects directly to clients; a dedicated Software Development team building both internal and client-facing software; and Legal Innovation, which carries out research and development, manages the firm’s AI implementation, and delivers bespoke projects and consultancy to clients on legal delivery and legal technology.

Kyle has worked directly with legal technology and on legal technology projects since 2015. He has been responsible for devising and implementing Matheson’s generative AI strategy and deployment, including the development of the firm’s AI governance framework — with a human-in-the-loop policy aligned with Law Society of Ireland guidance and the EU AI Act — and firm-wide AI education initiatives.

A former practising barrister, Kyle specialised in criminal defence, civil litigation, and judicial review before moving into legal technology. From 2015 to 2018 he worked at Herbert Smith Freehills, including a period on secondment with Lloyds Bank in London.

Kyle has lectured at various third-level institutions and speaks widely at conferences throughout Europe and the United States on legal technology, innovation, and change management. He sits on the board of the Centre for Legal Technology at Ulster University, and holds an LLB in Law with Politics from Ulster University and a Postgraduate Diploma in Professional Legal Education from Queen’s University Belfast.