About Ashurst Advance Reach
Ashurst Advance Reach allows our practice groups and clients to tap into a high-quality talent pool of qualified lawyers across a wide range of levels and specialities. Through strategic partnerships, Ashurst has access to highly capable lawyers who work on a flexible basis and can be engaged as an extension to our practice groups or to help clients secure technical expertise for secondments and special projects.
By engaging Ashurst Advance Reach, our clients can access high-quality lawyers at short notice on an as-required basis. This allows Ashurst to quickly scale up legal teams to meet client demands in a flexible and cost-effective way.
This new service offers several benefits to our clients:
- Flexibility – The ability to scale legal teams up and down more flexibly to respond effectively to the peaks and troughs of workflow, larger projects or matters to meet your deadlines
- Efficiency – Scaling up resourcing only when required so as to better manage legal spend
- High-quality service – Timely access to top-tier talent and skill sets as and when required
- Reduced turnaround times – Responding to requests for secondments from clients more quickly
- Price certainty – Competitive hourly, daily or fixed rate arrangements
Becoming a Reach Consultant
We understand that many legal professionals now demand more flexibility in the way they choose to work and Reach seeks to provide this. A key feature of the model is our focus on attracting and engaging Ashurst alumni to be part of our highly skilled and dedicated talent pool. If you are an Ashurst alumni working flexibly or considering this as a next step then we would love to hear from you.
The Ashurst Advance Reach service is initially launching in the UK & Australian markets but will be expanded globally in time. If you would be interested in learning more about our flexible resourcing network, either as a potential consultant or as a client, then please contact our Senior Operations Manager, Alexa Crawford.