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Ashley is an associate attorney practicing in the areas of plaintiffs’ civil rights and personal injury litigation, product liability defense, commercial litigation, and employment law.Ashley has represented the interests of both plaintiffs and corporate defendants in federal court, second chaired a jury trial on behalf of a corporate defendant in the U.S. District Court-District of Minnesota, Reuben v. Invensys, Inc., 2008 WL 5971202, and assisted a national financial institution in obtaining a favorable result from a FINRA arbitration panel on a trade secret and restrictive covenant case. Edward D. Jones v. Ronald F. Ducharme et al., FINRA Arbit. No. 09-00659, Order dated March 16, 2009.
Ashley joined Flynn, Gaskins, & Bennett in September of 2008 after clerking for the Hon. Thomas J. Kalitowski at the Minnesota Court of Appeals. While attending law school, Ashley served as Supervising Editor of the Minnesota Journal of Law, Science, & Technology and Student Director of the UMN’s Child Advocacy Clinic. Representative Experience : Publications and Presentations
Author, Subordinating Sound Medical Findings to Moral and Political Agendas, J. Legal Medicine, 27: 459-76 (2006).
Coauthor, The Effect of Substance Use and Relationship Closeness on Jurors’ Perceptions of Victims in Cases of Alleged Sexual Assault, Sex Roles 54: 547-55 (2006).
Presented Senior Honors Thesis at the 2004 National American Psych Law Society (APLS) conference. Memberships :
- Hennepin County Bar Association
- Minnesota State Bar Association
Women in the Legal Profession Committee, 2008-Present
New Lawyers Section, Member, 2007-Present
- American Bar Association
- Minnesota Women Lawyers
Court Admissions : Minnesota, 2007
U.S. District Court, District of Minnesota, 2008 Civic Involvement :
- Park Avenue United Methodist Church, Board of Trustees and Finance Committee
- Children’s Law Center, Volunteer Attorney
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