Appeals
When a case needs an appeal.
Appellate evaluation, research, and brief drafting, from pre-trial rulings to state supreme courts.
Bring Ashley in for the brief, the deposition, or the appeal.
Ashley Vaughn is a contract and appellate attorney in Portland. She gives solo and small-firm lawyers partner-level help, by the project or by the case.
Help at any stage of a case
Strategy and pleadings
- Case strategy
- Initial pleadings
- Demand packages and negotiation letters
Discovery
- Discovery review and responses
- Witness preparation
Depositions
- Preparing for, taking, and defending depositions
Motions
- Research and drafting, including summary judgment
- Anti-SLAPP motions and responses
- Arguing motions
Resolution and trial
- Negotiation and mediation
- Pre-trial and trial pleadings
Appeal
- Appellate evaluation
- Research and brief drafting
Short-term projects or long-term, leave-based assignments, in Oregon state and federal courts.
When you need another litigator, fast.
Contract Lawyer Services
As a boutique litigation firm owner and partner since 2019, Ashley understands that caseloads wax and wane, and that when you need additional support, you need it fast.
She can step in on a per-project or per-case basis, without the cost of hiring and training a full-time associate.
Anti-SLAPP Litigation
When an anti-SLAPP motion is coming, or should be.
Filing an anti-SLAPP motion, defending against one, or unsure whether your case qualifies.
Co-Counseling
When your case needs an extra lawyer on it.
Co-counsel in select cases, for lawyers in Oregon and across the country.
15 years of complex, high-stakes litigation.
Ashley has practiced plaintiff-side civil litigation for her entire career. As one of two lawyers in a boutique firm, she has taken on large law firms in complex, high-stakes cases.
She weighs a case’s strengths and weaknesses from both sides. Plaintiff and defense lawyers alike have recommended her as a judge pro tem in Multnomah County.
Licensed in OregonIn state and federal courts.Washington, California, Texas, Idaho, Iowa, Montana, New York, and New Mexico
Previously admitted pro hac vice for cases in these states.
- On the bench
- Judge pro tem, Multnomah County, hearing summary judgment motions
- Amicus work
- Amicus Committee, Oregon Trial Lawyers Association
- Education
- J.D. cum laude, Lewis & Clark Law School; Lead Article Editor, Lewis & Clark Law Review
Working with Ashley
- Self-directed
- She directs her own work, keeps the case moving, and does not need to be managed.
- Research and writing
- Legal research and writing are the core of her practice, and her work product is precise.
- Opposing counsel
- She gets along with opposing counsel, which tends to move cases toward resolution.
- Adaptable
- Co-counseling across the country has made her quick with new procedural rules, areas of law, and working styles.