About Ashby
Ashby has practiced in the firm’s Litigation section since 2003 where she specializes in general commercial litigation. She has handled a wide variety of business disputes (tort and contract) for both plaintiffs and defendants, and her clients range from individuals and small businesses to large national financial institutions, including banks, lenders, mortgage companies and insurance companies.
Ashby represents her financial services clients in a variety of consumer finance and real estate matters, including actions for wrongful foreclosure, predatory lending, consumer protection law claims and other state and federal lender liability claims. In representing her title insurance clients, Ashby has handled numerous matters which involve evaluating and litigating bad faith claims, boundary line and easement disputes, one-half interest defects, lost or unrecorded security instruments issues, disputes over damages and loss valuations and other issues that frequently arise in the title insurance industry.
Ashby has nearly 10 years of experience litigating in Georgia’s state and federal courts, and has tried cases (bench and jury trials) in both. Additionally, she has successfully, efficiently and cost-effectively resolved numerous disputes through effective settlement negotiation and/or participation in alternative dispute resolution mechanisms, including mediation and arbitration.
Outside of the office, Ashby serves on the Advisory Board of Atlanta Legal Aid. In 2008, Ashby founded Burr & Forman’s pro bono initiative with Atlanta Legal Aid’s Health Law Partnership (HeLP), an interdisciplinary community collaboration between Atlanta Legal Aid, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, and Georgia State University College of Law. HeLP’s mission statement is “Assisting Children and Their Families With Basic Civil Legal Problems.” Volunteer attorneys at Burr work with HeLP to assist families with ill and/or disabled children in obtaining guardianships over minors and incapacitated adults.
Professional Awards and Accomplishments
- Georgia Super Lawyers Rising Star (2010-2011)
Educational Awards and Accomplishments
Emory International Law Review, Notes and Comments Editor
Georgia Association of Women Lawyers’ Outstanding Law Student Award, Recipient
James H. and Frances Wilson Scholarship, Recipient
Legal Association for Women Students, President
Meyer S. Tenenbaum Scholarship, Recipient
Phi Alpha Delta Legal Fraternity, Member
Phi Beta Kappa, Member
Sports & Entertainment Law Society, President
Professional Memberships
- Atlanta Legal Aid, Advisory Board
Publications
- “Federal Trial Practice and Procedure,” Eleventh Circuit Survey for Mercer Law Review (2005-2011)