Legal Operations

Our highly experienced legal project managers and legal process improvement experts assist in the management of large or complex matters, re-engineer work streams to ensure efficiency and assist in reimagining your legal service delivery.

Our Services 

Legal Project Management

Effective scoping, planning and management are key to the successful delivery of any legal matter, particularly large matters with multiple workstreams or matters involving multiple jurisdictions or parties.

We are at the forefront of the market in providing a global legal project management (LPM) capability. Our team of dedicated Legal Project Managers come from a variety of backgrounds, and all have one thing in common - they apply project management discipline to our clients' matters to ensure they are delivered on time, and on budget. Our extensive experience and training programme means our team is able to work on any matter, regardless of type or scale.

This approach allows our core practice teams to concentrate on providing you with strategic advice in their areas of legal expertise.

Benefits

• Efficiency - Improved communication, matter management and cost-efficiency
• High-performing teams - Lawyers are free to concentrate on delivering the best strategic advice for clients
• Transparency and control – Our sophisticated management reporting, budgeting controls, project planning and contingency risk management ensure that our legal services are delivered on time and on budget

Legal Process Improvement

Our team of legal process improvement managers are experts at making legal service delivery more efficient. They offer you a framework and toolkit to capitalise on opportunities, enhance productivity and optimise performance by improving your processes.

Benefits

• Increased clarity - Well-documented processes provide greater clarity about the required actions, outputs and expectations, saving time and effort
• Improved consistency - Streamlined processes yield consistent outcomes
• Confident teams - Effective processes and systems give assurance that building blocks are in place and lawyer capacity is freed up for strategic activities

Legal Services Transformation

At Ashurst, we are on the same journey as our clients to transform our own legal service delivery model and embrace digital transformation. Legal services transformation involves Ashurst Advance using its tools, resourcing and methodology to work collaboratively with practice groups to review and change their legal service delivery. The aim is to improve client and lawyer experience and support prudent financial management through continual innovation and future facing ways of working.