Ashurst Advance
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Digital

Our expert team is dedicated to designing, developing and delivering transformative digital solutions that combine best-in-class technology with our world-class legal expertise.

We deploy technology and user design principles to streamline legal processes, optimise the delivery of legal services and transform legal data into legal outcomes. From collaboration platforms to AI driven contract review, document and process automation and obligations registers, our team create fit-for-purpose digital solutions that help drive efficiency, productivity and engagement.

Ashurst Advance Digital is the technology arm of Ashurst Advance. We are dedicated to designing, developing and delivering technology-based solutions that meet our clients' ever-evolving needs.

We offer clients a carefully curated and integrated suite of Digital Services and Digital Products underpinned by industry-leading own-built and third-party technologies.

 

Digital Services

Our digital services team can 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. Our team includes experienced technologists who will facilitate the use of a range of secure technology tools designed to enhance efficiency and accuracy.

Legal technology solutions

Our digital toolkit comprises of a wide range of applications, through which we have developed and regularly implement a wide range of innovative legal technology solutions for our clients including:

 

Document Automation: transforms frequently-used documents into intelligent templates, enabling anyone to create high-quality first draft documents by completing a simple online questionnaire.

 

AI-Powered Document Review and Due Diligence: quickly identifies and extracts relevant clauses and issues. Used appropriately, the time and cost savings are significant reducing days or weeks of manual work to a matter of hours.

 

Transaction Data Rooms our solutions are secure and easy-to use, and are available in a range of configurations tailored to our clients’ needs.

 

Client Platforms and Portals: technology-based platforms and portals that enable improved collaboration, centralised information sharing, work management and automation, project management and reporting.

 

E-Signing: enables documents to be signed electronically using virtually any device and in real-time using our cloud-based electronic signature platform.  

 

Our digital toolkit components, helping to streamline legal service delivery:

Case studies

  • LARGE RETAIL BANK (Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CBILS))

    Document automation - E-signatures - Collaboration

    Challenge: We needed to support a large retail bank with the swift preparation and completion of compliant and enforceable documentation to enable customers to participate in the UK Government’s Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme.

    Solution: We created a complete end-to-end solution using our digital toolkit that automated the production and signing of facility and security documentation - meaning deals were completed in hours not days.

  • MAJOR RETAILER (Corporate restructuring)

    Collaboration - Document automation - Contract analysis

    Challenge: As part of a large corporate restructuring, we were required to review 3,000 leases from multiple jurisdictions and prepare 550 subleases.

    Solution: We used our document automation tool to bulk generate 983 documents within 72 hours - delivering the client a 93% cost saving, if compared to a fully manual drafting process. We also helped accelerate the due diligence with our machine learning platform for contract anlaysis and also utilised online collaboration sites to give full matter dashboarding and real time reporting.

  • GLOBAL BANK (Business Banking Switch Scheme)

    Contract analysis - Document automation - Collaboration

    Challenge: We were retained by a global banking client to facilitate the processing and on-boarding of customers as part of the Business Banking Switch Scheme.

    Solution: Using bespoke code on top of our digital toolkit, we developed a solution to interpret and extract structured data from finance documents that fed directly into our document automation software. Over 3,000 unique loan and security documents were generated for over 600 new customers for our client.

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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. Our team is comprised of experts drawn from leading legal technology vendors and award winning legal innovation teams, who are passionate about deploying technology to create digital products that solve market challenges and create client value.

Recognition

Testament to the strength of our offering, Ashurst Advance is widely recognised in the market with a number of significant awards and accolades

  • 2022

    CHAMBERS ALTERNATIVE LEGAL SERVICE PROVIDERS

    Band 1 – Law Firm LPO – Global

  • 2021

    Law Awards of Scotland

    Innovation - Ashurst Advance

  • 2021

    The Lawyer Awards

    Best Client Service Innovation

  • 2021

    Legal Innovation Awards

    Future of Legal Services Innovation (Large Private Practice)

  • 2021

    Chambers Alternative Legal Service Providers

    Band 1 – Law Firm LPO - Global

  • 2020

    The British Legal Technology Awards

    Most Innovative Firm of the Year

  • 2020

    Excellence in Technology and Innovation

    Australasian Law Awards

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