Attorney Ashley Davenport is a highly-skilled, dedicated and zealous advocate for every client she serves. She works one-on-one with mistreated employees, prides herself on her personalized approach and attacks each case based on a client’s specific needs and goals.
Ashley has spent most of her nearly legal career practicing employment law and proudly advocating for employees and their rights. She represents individuals who have been subject to workplace harassment, discrimination or retaliation in severance negotiations, litigation, settlements and trial. Ashley has also been appointed by the Courts throughout Southern California as Class Counsel in wage and hour class actions to represent thousands of employees in claims of meal and rest breaks, payment for all hours worked, reimbursement of business expenses incurred, unpaid vacation time, and wage statement violations. She was also the attorney for the relator in a whistleblower case asserting four nursing home facilities’ misuse of government funds that resulted in a $6.9M settlement on behalf of the government.
Ashley graduated from the University of Southern California with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science. During her time at USC, she was a member of the crew team that competed at the Pac-10 Championships. She earned her law degree at Pepperdine University School of Law, where she also received a certificate from the Geoffrey H. Palmer Center for Entrepreneurship and the Law. Ashley was an editor of the Pepperdine Dispute Resolution Law Journal and her article on the role of forgiveness in the field of medical malpractice was selected for publication in the Spring of 2006. Forgive and Forget: Recognition of Error and Use of Apology as Preemptive Steps to ADR or Litigation in Medical Malpractice Cases; 6 Pepp. Disp. Resol. L.J. 81 (2006).
When not fighting employers on behalf of aggrieved employees, Ashley keeps busy with her two children, her husband’s craft beer bottle shop, and watching or playing sports.
