Ashley Davis is an Attorney in the Richmond, VA office of Allen & Allen. Ashley plays an integral role in the large and complex personal injury cases of the firm by identifying, analyzing and addressing legal issues that affect our clients' cases. Before joining Allen & Allen, Ashley spent ten years representing defendants and insurance companies in cases involving personal injury, wrongful death, medical malpractice, products liability, automobile and trucking accidents, brain injury, premises liability and toxic exposures. Her background as a defense lawyer gives her valuable insight into how insurance companies and their litigators handle personal injury claims. This understanding is an asset to Allen & Allen clients who benefit from her working knowledge of the defense.
Ashley is an adjunct professor who teaches trial advocacy at the University of Richmond's T. C. Williams School of Law. She has given lectures on a variety of litigation topics including the Medicare Secondary Payor Act, litigation in Virginia state courts, effective techniques for handling out-of-state litigation and the Freedom of Information Act. She has been asked to speak by the Women’s Caucus of The Virginia Trial Lawyers’ Association, the Virginia Association of Defense Attorneys, the Institute for Paralegal Education and the National Business Institute. Ashley graduated with High Honors in the top 10 of her law school class from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She graduated magna cum laude with a B.A. from the College of William and Mary and was advanced to candidacy for a Ph.D. in Anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh.
Ashley is fluent in Spanish. Before pursuing law school, Ashley lived and worked as an archaeologist in Mexico and the Caribbean.
Jurisdictions Admitted to Practice
Virginia
Since 2004
U.S. Supreme Court
Since 2010
Professional Experience
2014 - Current
Allen, Allen, Allen & Allen, P.C.
Attorney
2008 - Current
T.C. Williams School of Law, University of Richmond
Adjunct Associate Professor of Law, Lawyering Skills III
2004 - 2014
McGuireWoods LLP
Attorney – Complex Products Liability and Mass Tort Litigation Department
Meet Allen & Allen attorney Ashley Davis and hear why she decided to make the transition from working for large corporations and insurance companies to helping injured persons.
Transcript- My name is Ashley Davis, and I am an attorney with Allen and Allen. For many years I represented large corporations and insurance companies, and it was my job to make sure that they did not pay claims. And if they did have to pay, it was my job to make sure that they paid as little as possible. Over the years I met a lot of people who were injured… I can’t count the number of family members that I have met who have lost a loved one. And in every one of those cases it was my job to sit across the table and to keep them from getting the compensation that they deserved, and over time, it became very difficult for me to do that. And I realized that rather than work for the insurance companies, I wanted to work for people, who needed help, and to make a difference in their lives.
My role at Allen and Allen is a little different because I don’t handle individual cases. My job is to help each and every one of our clients, because I spent so many years working for defendants and for insurance companies I understand the legal arguments that they raise in cases. I understand their strategies; I understand how they make decisions. And so my job is to anticipate the legal defenses that they are going to raise in a case, and to respond to those arguments.
The reality is that large corporations and insurance companies have teams of attorneys that are working for them, and their entire job is to protect the companies’ bottom line. For many people who are injured, this is their very first time in the legal system, and if they do not have the experience and attorneys who are helping them through that process they are at a tremendous disadvantage in the legal system. We’re Allen and Allen, call us.
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