NewLaw

Over the past two decades, the way in which lawyers work has changed dramatically and the pace of change is accelerating. New ways of delivering legal services have emerged and new legal service providers have been established.

In 2013, to remain at the forefront of this industry change, we created Ashurst Advance, the firm's dedicated full service NewLaw division that delivers innovative and holistic legal and business solutions across five core NewLaw capabilities: Advanced Delivery, Legal Managed Services, Digital, Legal Operations and Flexible Resourcing.

What we do

Ashurst Advance is fully integrated with the global firm, collaborating with all our legal divisions to solve complex legal and business challenges, leveraging a combination of highly trained cost-effective resourcing together with the latest in digital tools and process design to deliver high quality, efficient outcomes for the firm's international and domestic clients.

What do we look for?

We look for creative and collaborative individuals who are passionate about innovation and challenging the status quo. You’ll be someone who is committed to delivering excellent quality of service and have an instinct for problem solving. You will work effectively with others towards a common goal, and support your colleagues with openness and respect.

What can we offer you?

The diversity of our people and their experience sets us apart and is a key driver of our success. We are committed to investing in their personal growth. We created a unique NewLaw career development framework which provides our people with a progression pathway built around defined role expectations and stages to help the next generation of legal professionals grow and excel in their careers.

The Ashurst Advance Pathway Programme also offers an enriching and challenging career in law with a range of opportunities to work with some of the most agile and incisive thinkers in the legal and business sectors while maintaining life-work balance.

Our teams

Want to see where you could fit in? Here is a snapshot of our teams within Ashurst Advance.

• Advanced Delivery Services: Our Advanced Delivery Services team comprises of various roles including practising lawyers and legal analysts.
  
  The legal analyst role combines elements from tasks historically undertaken by junior lawyers, trainees and paralegals brought into a high-performing and flexible team gaining exposure to a wide variety of work from across our global offices, and with a new type of legal career path. 
  
  In addition to developing a highly varied skill-set, the legal analyst role also presents opportunity to enter onto the Ashurst Advance Pathway Programme.
• Legal Project Management: We believe that effective planning and organisation is key to the efficient management and successful delivery of any project, including legal matters.
  
  Our specialist legal project managers have proven experience in successfully delivering projects of complexity and scale. They act as a central point of contact and use internationally-recognised project methodology and techniques to ensure that work is delivered seamlessly, on time and on budget.
• Legal Process Improvement: Our dedicated legal process improvement professionals facilitate change in ways of working to enable more efficient delivery of legal services. They offer our clients a framework and toolkit to capitalise on opportunities, enhance productivity and optimise performance through process improvement.
• eDiscovery: Our eDiscovery capability combines cutting-edge technology with market-leading expertise. Fully integrated with our legal teams, our eDiscovery experts provide defensible and cost efficient reviews and productions to clients throughout the Ashurst global network using the latest eDiscovery tools and big data and AI driven technologies.
• Digital Services: Our digital services team help optimize and simplify complex processes through the use of our best-in-class technology – enhancing the value of our legal services through efficient, cost-effective and transparent delivery.
• Digital Products: The digital products team create direct-to-client solutions - leveraging our powerful technology toolkit to build products that meet the challenges of a rapidly changing legal and regulatory landscape.
• Ashurst Advance Reach: Our Ashurst Advance Reach flexible resourcing service utilises expert talent systems, resources and process to provide contract legal professionals across a wide range of levels and specialities when and where our clients and practice groups need them – to temporarily augment in-house legal teams, provide cover for unexpected absences or to assist with peak workflows or specialised projects.