Ashurst Advance (Ashurst)

Christopher Georgiou, Co-head of Ashurst Advance, London

Hilary Goodier, Co-head of Ashurst Advance, Melbourne

Nathan Bellgrove, Head of Advanced Solutions, Ashurst Advance, Melbourne

Tara Waters, Chief Digital Officer, London

Partners: 4

Staff: 180+

Ashurst Advance is Ashurst's award-winning NewLaw division and a global leader in the delivery of innovative and digitally-enabled legal services to clients across all industries.

Ashurst Advance works seamlessly with the firm's legal and consulting experts to provide cost-effective, fully integrated solutions tailored to client needs and which address their most complex legal and business challenges. Ashurst is the only firm that brings together legal, consulting and NewLaw expertise to meet this need.

The group brings expertise and extensive capabilities in advanced delivery, legal managed services, digital, legal operations and flexible resourcing to:

• ensure the highest levels of quality and efficiency
• drive real value for their clients' businesses.

The firm has received widespread market recognition for the innovative solutions developed by Ashurst Advance and their positive impact on clients, including the highly prestigious Most Innovative Law Firm Award in both Europe and Asia at the FT Innovative Lawyer Awards 2022.

Contact: Christopher Georgiou, Co-head of Ashurst Advance, London; Hilary Goodier, Co-head of Ashurst Advance, Melbourne; Nathan Bellgrove, Head of Advanced Solutions, Ashurst Advance; Tara Waters, Chief Digital Officer; Helga Butcher, Associate Director – Ashurst Advance, Client Solutions EMEA/US); Tae Royle, Director – Ashurst Advance, Client Solutions APAC

Ashurst Advance's Advanced Delivery solutions use a powerful combination of cost-effective and flexible resourcing, technology, process design and project management to drive efficiencies and improve delivery for complex, high volume, process and data driven or resource intensive work. The team works with the firm's legal experts across the full range of contentious and transactional matters, such as disputes and investigations, banking and capital markets projects, real estate portfolio transactions, corporate M&A and infrastructure projects.

Contact: Nathan Bellgrove, Head of Advanced Solutions, Ashurst Advance; Jen McCormick, Director - Ashurst Advance, Advanced Solutions EMEA/US

Designed as an extension of clients' in-house legal teams, Ashurst Advance delivers cost-efficient, quality-assured, end-to-end Legal Managed Services for a range of work types including:

• regulatory compliance and change
• managed legal and document review
• contract lifecycle management
• real estate asset management
• claims assessment, management and remediation
• data managed services
• commercial contracting.

Contact: Nathan Bellgrove, Head of Advanced Solutions, Ashurst Advance; Jen McCormick, Director – Ashurst Advance, Advanced Solutions EMEA/US; Helga Butcher, Associate Director – Ashurst Advance, Client Solutions EMEA/US; Tae Royle, Director – Ashurst Advance, Client Solutions APAC

Ashurst Advance's digital solutions optimise the delivery of legal services and enhance clients' access to legal expertise to meet the challenges of a rapidly changing legal and regulatory landscape. With capabilities underpinned by a deep understanding and application of user-centric design principles and adaptive delivery methodologies, the team has significant experience:

• using automation, AI and data analytics to improve efficiency, accuracy and insights
• creating digital solutions and products which make legal advice more useful and accessible
• developing collaborative, cloud-based workspaces for legal and client teams.

Contact: Tara Waters, Chief Digital Officer; Sarah Chambers, Director - Digital Experience; Chris Boulter, Associate Director - Digital Products

Leveraging deep expertise across legal project management, legal process improvement and legal services transformation, the Legal Operations team works hand in hand with Ashurst Advance's digital and delivery specialists to help drive greater efficiency and transparency and cost certainty in legal matters. The team works with its clients to understand their strategic objectives and granular operational needs to help manage large or complex contentious and non-contentious projects.

Contact: Kate Bassett, Associate Director – Ashurst Advance, Legal Operations

Ashurst Reach gives clients access to a network of highly experienced contract lawyers and paralegals to:

• backfill leave
• meet internal demands
• assist with specialised projects
• provide cover during recruitment.

Reach legal consultants have a range of specialties and disciplines, including in-house experience. Usually alumni or people who are well known to the firm, Reach legal consultants are vetted using the same rigorous background checks as Ashurst’s permanent staff members.

Contact:Linda Grace, Director and Practice Head; Sarah Jaensch, Operations Manager; Ellé-Anne Barry Senior Manager (UK); Fiona Craig, Talent Manager (Australia)