Practice Expertise

  • Aviation Litigation
  • Arbitration and Mediation
  • Commercial Litigation
  • Construction and Engineering Litigation

Areas of Practice

  • Arbitration and Mediation
  • Aviation Litigation
  • Commercial Litigation
  • Construction and Engineering Litigation
  • Discovery and E-Discovery
  • Energy
  • Energy and Environmental Litigation
  • Energy Litigation
  • Energy Transition
  • Environmental
  • Land Use
  • Litigation
  • Oil & Gas Disputes
  • Real Estate Litigation
  • Securities Litigation and SEC Enforcement
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Profile

Ashley is a trial lawyer in the Litigation section of the firm’s Houston office.

Ashley’s practice includes complex commercial litigation, with an emphasis on oil and gas litigation, technology and internet disputes, construction litigation, and business disputes. She has advised and represented clients in all stages of litigation, including pre-suit matters, discovery (depositions and written discovery), motion practice, trial, and appeals.

Her representative experience encompasses a broad range of industries, including the technology, energy, oil and gas, chemical, construction, investment, and manufacturing industries. She has represented clients in state and federal court, as well as in alternative dispute resolution settings. She has tried numerous jury trials to verdict and served as a municipal court prosecutor in the City of Houston's Volunteer Prosecutor Program.

Ashley’s cases frequently involve claims for emergency and injunctive relief and attract media attention, including coverage in the Houston Chronicle, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal. She frequently tackles cutting-edge legal issues of first impression in Texas and has experience concerning internet liability and technology disputes.

Since 2021, Ashley has been recognized as One to Watch by the Best Lawyers in America in commercial litigation, energy law, and construction law.

Representative Experience

  • Lead trial counsel for energy company facing claims of fraud, quantum meruit, breach of contract and suit on a sworn account. Plaintiff nonsuited all claims against energy company on eve of trial.
  • Lead trial counsel for bank facing claims of DTPA violations, breach of contract, negligence and fraud. Negotiated nonsuit of all Plaintiffs’ claims against bank.
  • Trial and appellate counsel for global social media company in defense of multiple actions alleging statutory and common law liability for content published by users of platform.
  • Trial counsel for largest Texas municipality in action to validate city ordinance adopting increase in water and sewer service rates pursuant to the Texas Expedited Declaratory Judgment Act.
  • Trial and appellate counsel for an exploration and production company in a dispute arising from alleged breaches of an area of mutual interest agreement and a joint operating agreement covering acreage in the Delaware Basin.
  • Trial counsel for an international oil and gas company in a dispute over an alleged farmout brokerage agreement.
  • Trial counsel for a publicly-traded construction company in a whistleblower suit involving alleged violations of Sarbanes-Oxley and Dodd-Frank brought by former executives.
  • Trial counsel for a midstream company in two arbitrations involving claims that the contractor breached the parties’ contract by failing to construct gas storage and processing facilities in accordance with the parties’ agreement.
  • Trial counsel for an oil and gas operator in a surface use dispute relating to alleged trespass, conversion and excessive use claims, as well as breach of contract claims regarding the oil and gas operator's rights of access and groundwater usage.
  • Trial counsel for a helicopter designer, manufacturer, and seller in a wrongful death/products liability suit arising from a helicopter crash in College Station, Texas. Resulted in summary judgment disposing of lawsuit.
  • Trial counsel for transportation business bringing claims for theft of trade secrets, breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, and tortious interference against a competitor.
  • Trial counsel for investment fund manager in action alleging breach of fiduciary duty and negligence in management of Texas limited partnership.

Education
BS, Northwestern University, Journalism, 2010

Areas of Practice

  • Arbitration and Mediation
  • Aviation Litigation
  • Commercial Litigation
  • Construction and Engineering Litigation
  • Discovery and E-Discovery
  • Energy
  • Energy and Environmental Litigation
  • Energy Litigation
  • Energy Transition
  • Environmental
  • Land Use
  • Litigation
  • Oil & Gas Disputes
  • Real Estate Litigation
  • Securities Litigation and SEC Enforcement

Professional Career



Articles

  • Applying Omnicare: The Second Circuit Weighs in on Statement of Opinion Liability Post-Omnicare
  • SCOTUS Limits Protections for Whistleblowers
  • What Oil and Gas Practitioners Need to Know about the Application of the Discovery Rule and the Fraudulent Concealment Doctrine in the Oil Patch

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