Gary Stanley

Gary Stanley is the President of Global Legal Services, PC, a Washington, DC-based law firm focusing on trade compliance issues. Mr. Stanley advises, among others, numerous U.S., Canadian, and European companies on export control issues, including preparing license applications and commodity jurisdiction requests, strengthening export control compliance programs, providing in-house training, and guiding ITAR and EAR voluntary disclosures. He has twice served as a Special Compliance Officer under 2004 and 2022 ITAR Consent Agreements, publishes the daily Defense and Export-Import Update newsletter, and frequently speaks at U.S. export control conferences around the world.

Besides representing private companies, Mr. Stanley has also served as a consultant to the U.S. Government and foreign governments, as well as industry groups. For example, he served as the principal outside subject matter expert on export controls to prime contractor Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. in Phase II of the Transatlantic Secure Collaboration Program. This program was a consortium of ten leading U.S., Canadian and European defense companies seeking to establish “best practice” guidelines for the electronic exchange of unclassified proprietary and export-controlled information. Mr. Stanley has also provided export control training to multiple Canadian Government agencies.

Mr. Stanley received his undergraduate degree from Emory University in 1975 and his law degree from Harvard Law School in 1978.