Ashley L. McDonough

Ashley McDonough represents clients in complex litigation, product liability matters, investigations, regulatory challenges, and enforcement actions. Working across multiple continents and jurisdictions, Ashley helps clients navigate shifting government priorities and difficult legal issues, developing strategies informed by each client's business objectives, risk tolerance, and operational needs.

Ashley recently completed an international secondment with a Fortune Global 500 company, where she advised business leaders on regulatory and litigation risks and collaborated with legal and business teams on risk mitigation.

Ashley's litigation experience spans product liability matters, multidistrict litigation, class certification proceedings, and constitutional and statutory challenges to laws and regulations in the United States and around the world. She has served on 12 trial teams in high-stakes multimillion-dollar cases and obtained multiple complete defense verdicts as part of Jones Day's nationwide representation of R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company in smoking and health lawsuits. Her experience covers all phases of litigation, including discovery, taking and defending expert and fact witness depositions, motion practice, trial, and appeal. She has also conducted extensive fact investigations involving the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

Ashley maintains an active pro bono practice. As part of Jones Day's Border Project, she successfully secured a complete dismissal of a client's removal case.