About Ashley
Ashley practices in the firm’s Litigation section and represents management in all areas of labor and employment law. She handles all aspects of federal and state court litigation involving discrimination, harassment, wage and hour, family and medical leave and other employment related issues. She also represents employers in investigations and proceedings by governmental agencies such as the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Department of Labor, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the National Labor Relations Board. Ashley has also handled appeals to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and the Supreme Court of Alabama.
Ashley is a member of the American Bar Association, the Alabama State Bar and the Birmingham Bar Association. She serves on the Executive Board of the Women Lawyers Section of the Birmingham Bar Association and is a Past Chair of the Labor and Employment Section of the Alabama Bar Association. She is also a Vice-Chair of the Employment Law and Litigation Committee of the TIPS Section of the American Bar Association.
Ashley is also a member of the Birmingham Business Journal’s 2007 class of “Top 40 Under 40” honorees and a recipient of the 2006 “Best of the Bar” award in the Labor & Employment category. She was named an Alabama Super Lawyers “Rising Star” in 2010 and was selected as an Alabama Super Lawyer in 2011 and 2012 including being listed in the “Top 25 Women” in 2012. Ashley also serves on the Firm’s Diversity, Marketing, and Recruiting Committees.
Ashley received her B.A., summa cum laude, from Auburn University and her J.D., magna cum laude, from the University of Alabama School of Law. During law school, she was an editor for the Alabama Law Review and a member of the Order of the Coif. She also received the Hugo L. Black Scholar Award and the Dean Leigh Harrison Award for academic achievement.
What is your favorite thing about the law?
I love learning about clients’ business operations. To represent a client well, you have to know what they do and how they do it, and that is fascinating to me.
What are your hobbies?
I love to spend time with my husband and our girls, who are 5 and 6 years old. Our activities vary with their imagination - some days we are ballerinas, some days we are racecar drivers.