Ashley M. Simonsen

Partner, Covington & Burling LLP

Ashley Simonsen is a litigator whose practice focuses on defending complex class actions in state and federal courts across the country, with substantive experience in the three hotbeds of class action litigation: New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.

Ashley represents clients in the technology, consumer brands, financial services, and sports industries through all stages of litigation, including trial, with a strong track record of success on early dispositive motions. Her practice encompasses advertising, antitrust, product defect, and consumer protection matters. Ashley regularly advises companies on arbitration clauses in consumer agreements and related issues, including mass arbitration risks and issues arising under McGill v. Citibank, N.A. And she is one of the nation’s leading experts on “true lender” issues and the related “valid when made” doctrine.

Ashley was named a “Class Action MVP” by Law360 in 2021 and earned a 2021 “Top Verdict” recognition from The Daily Journal. She was also named a “Top Attorneys Under 40” by Law360 and a Leader of Influence: Litigators & Trial Lawyers by the Los Angeles Business Journal in 2020. Before practicing law, Ashley was an associate at Lehman Brothers in New York where she advised banks on balance sheet management and interest rate hedging strategies.

(Source: Covington Website)

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