INNOVATION Ashurst ADVANCE

Who are we?

Ashurst Advance is our NewLaw division meeting our clients’ needs for cost-effective and efficiency-driven legal service delivery. We combine lower cost resourcing, process professionals and industry-leading technology with Ashurst’s legal experts in an integrated, quality assured package. This combination allows us to offer you legal excellence with efficient delivery and digital enablement.

Our holistic methodology, focusing on process, resource and technology, allows us to tailor our approach to the matter in hand, ensuring the relevant specialists from each area are assigned to the right tasks. If you would like to know more about how each specialist team supports our lawyers, please click on the teams' homepages, listed in the left column.

What can we do?

We apply our NewLaw expertise to help solve our global clients' business challenges across all industries and geographies – ranging from the cost-effective delivery of large-scale regulatory change or documentation remediation projects to the provision of legal managed services and outsourcing solutions. Our solutions are aimed at reducing time and costs and increasing efficiencies throughout the matter lifecycle, or providing increasing utility through digital enablement. We customise our services to your needs, deploying the full extent of the Ashurst Advance platform as required, seamlessly embedded into our standard working practices.

Why use us?

We save you money: We recognise that it is not necessary or efficient to use qualified lawyers to perform every task on a matter. We focus on using the right person (or technology) to do the right task without sacrificing quality. We have a range of flexible and scalable lower cost resourcing options, including our teams of high calibre legal analysts and strategic partnerships with leading law companies.

We speed things up: Our process improvement specialists analyse, design and optimise work flows. We also use industry-leading technology, including contract automation, document review with machine learning, collaboration tools and document execution software, to deliver solutions to you that improve the speed, accuracy and consistency of outcomes.

We see legal delivery through a digital lens: We recognise the huge potential that digital transformation offers the legal industry and our clients. Ashurst Advance invests in and creates technology-enabled solutions, in collaboration with our clients, our lawyers and leading technology providers, which not only increase efficiencies, but will also transform the way you can access legal and regulatory expertise in the future.

We provide you with more transparency and control: Our legal project management professionals provide you with sophisticated management reporting, budgeting controls, project planning and contingency risk management. They ensure that our legal services are delivered to you on time and on budget. We can also put our technology directly into your hands, giving you more seamless and efficient access to our services.

We are one team: Ashurst Advance combines our alternative resourcing, process and technology teams into a single integrated division with continuous communication and a holistic approach. This ensures that our clients receive the best solution with optimal efficiency, cost effectiveness and digitally innovative legal service delivery.