Ashley Davis

Ashley Davis is a partner at MichieHamlett in Charlottesville. She is a legal strategist and litigator who focuses her practice on complex litigation, products liability, wrongful death, explosions and fires, food poisoning, federal practice, and appellate advocacy.

Ashley is a member of the prestigious Boyd-Graves Conference, an invitation-only conference of the Virginia State Bar that brings together lawyers from all regions of the state specializing in different practice areas to meet and discuss ways to improve the law, which makes recommendations to the Supreme Court of Virginia and the Virginia General Assembly. In 2025, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia appointed Ashley to the Virginia Model Jury Instructions Committee, which is responsible for drafting the model jury instructions that are used in criminal and civil cases.

She was named an “Influential Woman of Law” and a “Go To Lawyer for Appellate Law” by Virginia Lawyers Weekly. She is a “Super Lawyer,” is listed in the Top 50 Richmond Super Lawyers and Top 100 Virginia Super Lawyers, and she has been included in the “Ones to Watch” list in Best Lawyers in America since 2021.

Ashley is an adjunct professor who teaches trial advocacy at the University of Richmond’s T. C. Williams School of Law, and she a former instructor of Legal Research and Writing for the Paralegal Studies program at Virginia Commonwealth University. She is a sought-after public speaker and has given lectures nationwide on a variety of litigation topics including sovereign immunity, products liability, premises liability, foodborne illness, federal procedure, corporate depositions, insurance, e-discovery, trial techniques, motions practice, legal writing, legal ethics, and effective techniques for handling out-of-state litigation. She has been asked to speak by the American Association for Justice (AAJ), the Virginia Trial Lawyers Association (VTLA), the Virginia Association of Defense Attorneys (VADA), the Wyoming Trial Lawyers Association, the Federal Bar Association (FBA), the Richmond Bar Association (RBA), the Henrico County Bar Association (HCBA), the Metropolitan Richmond Women’s Bar Association (MRWBA), NALA (the National Association of Legal Assistants), the Richmond Paralegal Association, the Institute for Paralegal Education, Strafford, and the National Business Institute.

She serves on the Board of Governors for the VTLA and is active in the legislative efforts of that organization.  She is an active member of the Amicus Curiae Committee and she regularly writes briefs to the Supreme Court of Virginia, the Virginia Court of Appeals, and the federal Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals promoting justice and access to courts on behalf of injured people. She is a member and former chair of VTLA’s Continuing Legal Education Committee, Pro Bono Committee, and Women’s Caucus.

Ashley is active in pro bono and serves on the Board of the Legal Aid Justice Center (LAJC), the Board of Directors for the Greater Richmond Bar Foundation (GRBF), and she is the former chair of the Richmond Bar Association’s Pro Bono Committee.

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 she pursued a Ph.D. in Anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh.

She is fluent in Spanish, and before attending law school, she lived and worked as an archaeologist in Mexico and the Caribbean.

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