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LIFESTYLE SECTION
Introducing our Corporate Partners, Ashurst – a global law firm committed to thinking outside the box and making a difference. Have you ever wondered what it would be like to work in the legal sector? Here 5 Ashurst employees give an insight into their roles and offer advice on nontraditional legal careers – could one of them be for you?
Alexa Crawford – Senior Operations Manager, Ashurst Advance Reach
Naomi Jones - Legal Project Manager, Ashurst Advance
What is your role?
I have been working as a legal project manager for around 18 months and thoroughly enjoy the role.
What do you enjoy about your role?
I really enjoy the variety and the challenges the role offers – no two days are the same and I get to work with a range of different people and clients.
What advice would you give on pursuing this type of role?
I would encourage people not to be put off if you don’t have a legal background – sometimes it can be a benefit as you can bring in different perspectives and experience to the role! 6
What is your role?
Ashurst Advance Reach is the firm’s dedicated flexible legal resourcing platform, part of the Alternative Resourcing offering of Ashurst Advance, enabling us to offer flexible resourcing solutions to our clients and our own legal teams. I joined Reach at its launch phase and so in many ways it has been like launching and running a new business, so my role has developed and changed as the business has grown.
What do you enjoy about your role?
The variety. I speak to many different people every day and I enjoy that. I also get a sense of satisfaction from solving people’s problems and offering them solutions. The best part is when a consultant is really excited about a new role and you have helped create that opportunity for them.
What advice would you give on pursuing this type of role?
You don’t need any formal qualifications to apply for a recruitment role, but you do need to be able to demonstrate that you have people skills, strong communication skills, that you are organised and probably fairly resilient as things don’t always go to plan!
You don’t need any formal qualifications to apply for a recruitment role, but you do need to be able to demonstrate that you have
people skills, strong communication skills”
