Saint Louis University School of Law,
J.D., magna cum laude, Woolsack Honor Society, 2020
Saint Louis University,
B.S. Health Management, summa cum laude, 2017
Missouri
Illinois
Judge Robert G. Dowd Senior Appellate Advocacy Award
Academic Excellence Award
Legal Research and Writing I & II
Thomas F. Eagleton Scholar
2017-2018
Thompson Coburn LLP
Associate, 2021-Present
Ashton is a perceptive litigator with experience in health care litigation, tort and product liability, and complex commercial disputes.
She demonstrates adaptability across a number of industries as she helps to develop and execute strategy at all stages of litigation. She provides invaluable assistance to the national trial team in a multi-district litigation medical device action and has experience in railroad litigation, pharmaceutical litigation, and federal health care compliance.
Additionally, Ashton represents hospitals and health care providers in reimbursement disputes and provides support on matters relating to ERISA, False Claims Act, and anti-kickback statutes. She drafts motions and memoranda before state and federal trial courts and has provided assistance on various appellate matters.
During law school, Ashton served as Editor-in-Chief of the Saint Louis University Journal of Health Law & Policy. She was also a student attorney in the Civil Litigation Clinic and competed on the law school's trial advocacy and national moot court competition teams. In her final year of law school, Ashton argued in the national championship round of the New York City Bar Association's National Moot Court Competition.
NOTICE.
Although we would like to hear from you, we cannot represent you until we know that
doing so will not create a conflict of interest. Also, we cannot treat unsolicited
information as confidential. Accordingly, please do not send us any information
about any matter that may involve you until you receive a written statement from
us that we represent you (an ‘engagement letter’).
By clicking the ‘ACCEPT’ button, you agree that we may review any information you transmit to us. You recognize that our review of your information, even if you submitted it in a good faith effort to retain us, and, further, even if you consider it confidential, does not preclude us from representing another client directly adverse to you, even in a matter where that information could and will be used against you. Please click the ‘ACCEPT’ button if you understand and accept the foregoing statement and wish to proceed.