Ashley L. McDonough

Ashley McDonough represents clients in high-profile regulatory and litigation matters, investigations, and enforcement actions. Working across multiple continents and jurisdictions, Ashley helps clients navigate shifting government priorities and complex legal issues with her strategic thinking to deliver business objectives and provide risk mitigation.

Ashley is currently on an international secondment with a Fortune Global 500 company where she draws on her extensive industry knowledge to advise on regulatory matters and litigation risk management.

Ashley's experience includes constitutional and statutory challenges to federal, state, and local laws and regulations in the United States and around the world, such as tobacco flavor bans and graphic warning mandates on cigarette packages. She has participated in a dozen jury trials in high-risk multimillion dollar cases, obtaining multiple complete defense verdicts in Jones Day's nationwide defense of smoking and health lawsuits brought against R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company. She has experience in many aspects of discovery and trial preparation, including taking expert and fact witness depositions, preparing expert witnesses, and drafting significant pretrial, post-trial, and appellate briefing. Ashley also has developed extensive experience in multidistrict litigation and class certification proceedings and has conducted fact investigations in Department of Justice (DOJ) and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) matters.

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.