Usually, I have a pretty good sense of which articles on legalweek.com will garner attention, but I confess I didn’t foresee a low-key article about Ashurst articulating an expectation that partners should be doing at least 50 hours of work a week gaining the audience it did.
In many ways the stance, outlined in a 15-second burst at the firm’s partnership conference last November, would seem an entirely innocuous statement of fact for those taking on a gig currently paying £362,000 to £940,000 a year.
