Overview

Ashley focuses on labor and employment law, representing clients across a broad range of industries. She provides management strategic client-focused guidance in a range of issues including navigating discrimination and harassment allegations, negotiating and drafting contracts and agreements, drafting employment handbooks, employment policies and procedures, and employment-related audits.

Before joining Michael Best, Ashley was a partner and co-founder at Felton Banks, a Raleigh firm, where she practiced employment law as well as corporate and construction law. Earlier in her career, she was an Associate with a full-service Raleigh firm that served clients in the construction industry.

Experience

Solutions in action

Credentials

  • Campbell University, Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law, Juris Doctor (J.D.), 2013
  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Communication & Media Studies and English Literature, 2010

  • North Carolina
  • United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit
  • United States District Court, Eastern District of North Carolina
  • United States District Court, Middle District of North Carolina

  • Legal Elite, Employment Law, Business North Carolina Magazine, 2021–Present
  • Selected to Business & Corporate, Employment & Labor, Aviation & Aerospace Rising Stars, Super Lawyers®, 2019-Present
  • Legal Elite, Employment Law, US Business News, 2018

Engagement

  • Advocacy Coordinator, AUVSI-NC (Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International)
  • Member, American Bar Association
  • Member, Association of Uncrewed Vehicle System International (AUVSI)

  • Board Member, Triangle Chapter of American Red Cross

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