Ashley P. Nichols
Of Counsel
Practices primarily in the areas of medical device litigation, product liability litigation and professional liability litigation. Has taken over 25 cases to trial in Georgia, Illinois, Ohio and Alabama, and handled cases throughout Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Alabama, Florida, Illinois, Texas, Pennsylvania, California, New Mexico, Mississippi, Arizona, Massachusetts, Virginia, Kentucky, Idaho, Kansas, New York, Ohio, Tennessee, New Jersey, Utah and Louisiana.
Representative Cases/Experience
- Serves as national coordinating counsel for international medical device manufacturer in pattern product liability litigation.
- Represented apartment complexes, hospitals, restaurants and hotels in cases involving allegations of violent crime and sexual assault.
- Represented multiple Fortune 500 companies in cases involving claims of traumatically induced brain injury.
- Represented several national healthcare companies in numerous wrongful death and personal injury cases and trials.
Professional Activities and Honors
- Named 2005, 2006 and 2010 Georgia "Rising Star" by Super Lawyers magazine
Professional Memberships and Affiliations
- State Bar of Georgia, Formal Advisory Opinion Board, 2004 and 2005
- Lawyers Club of Atlanta
- Defense Research Institute
- Atlanta Bar Association
Admissions to Practice
- State Bar of Georgia
- U.S. District Court, North and Middle Districts of Georgia
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit
Education
- B.A., cum laude, Vanderbilt University, 1993
- J.D., Emory University School of Law, 1996; Order of the Barristers