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Karen Ashton

Professional Support Lawyer
Director of Professional Support

Karen Ashton is part of the practice group leadership team and as the PSL lead ensures knowledge and excellence are at the heart of everything we do.

Karen is Head of Professional Support for the Company Commercial Practice Group. Having practised as a transaction lawyer at the firm for over ten years she has now been a PSL for over 15 years, first focusing on international M&A and ECM, then heading up the Corporate PSL team and now the PSL team across the practice group.  Karen is part of our leadership team and works with partners and lawyers across our international practice to ensure knowledge remains a key part of our strategy for profitable growth.

Karen's work as a PSL is concentrated on improving our quality and our processes and ensuring our legal advisers are fully trained and up to date with legal developments. She leads our Precedent Forum looking at not only the content but the functionality and style of our documents ensuring they remain up to date and can be produced in as efficient a way as possible. Karen works closely with our legal technoligists, especially those looking at automation and AI. Her work, like that of the firm, is increasingly international, and she has delivered training to our teams in the Middle East and Paris and has developed a set of project management tools for use across all of our network.

In her spare time Karen runs a thriving Brownie pack, is a managing trustee for her local methodist church and enjoys traveling with her husband and two teenage daughters.

Karen is involved in client briefings, brochures and articles as either an author or an editor, and she regulalry presents to internal and external audiences.

Karen is a member of two national PSL networks and is on their working party for the use of e-sigantures in corproate transactions.

  • BA(Hons) Law, St Aiden's College, Durham 1989-1992
  • LPC, College of Law, Chester 1992-1993
Karen Ashton

Professional Support Lawyer

Director of Professional Support

Karen Ashton

Professional Support Lawyer

Director of Professional Support

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