Attorneys
Areas of Focus
Ashley focuses her practice on workers’ compensation defense.
While in law school, she served as the Editor-in-Chief of the South Carolina Journal of International Law and Business and participated in mock trial. After law school, Ashley clerked for the Honorable Steven H. John of the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit. Ashley also co-chairs the summer law clerk program which offers law students the opportunity to develop professionally though legal work, networking, and an introduction to the firm culture.
- Represented self-insured employers in handling of South Carolina Workers’ Compensation.
- Developed exposure analysis to provide employers with comprehensive and realistic case expectations.
- Defended medical doctor depositions and provided employers with aggressive representation at same.
- Columbia Business Monthly Legal Elite of the Midlands
- Workers’ Compensation – Defendant (2023)
- Best Lawyers in America: Ones to Watch List
- Workers’ Compensation Law – Employers
- American Bar Association’s ‘ABA Free Legal Answers Pro Bono Leader’ (2021)
- Overall winner of the Judge J. Lyles Glenn, Jr. and Terrell L. Glenn, Sr. Mock Trial Competition (2013)
- Robert McCormick Figg, Jr. Trial Advocacy Award (2014)
- Judicial Clerk, The Honorable Steven H. John, Resident Circuit Judge of the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit (August 2015-August 2016)
Professional
- South Carolina Bar
- South Carolina Workers’ Compensation Educational Association
- South Carolina Women Lawyers Association
Community
- Junior League of Columbia
- Greater Columbia Chamber of Commerce
- South Carolina Chamber of Commerce
Bar Admissions
- South Carolina Bar
Education
- University of South Carolina School of Law, 2015
- North Carolina State University, 2012