Ashley Armetta Hollan

Ashley Hollan Couch has been immersed in the arts her entire life, defining herself as an artist and advocate for the creative community.  By the time she reached high school, Ashley's visual artwork had been featured both at the High Museum of Art as well as at the twin towers of the Floyd Building in Atlanta, Georgia.​  Ashley attended college at Duke University where she earned a Bachelor of Arts with a double major in Public Policy and Visual Art/Art History and spent a semester studying art and art history in Florence, Italy at Studio Art Centers International (SACI).  Ashley then matriculated to law school at the University of Denver, where she held various positions to build her business and legal entertainment experience.  In law school, Ashley was the President of the Sports and Entertainment Law Society, Staff Editor for the Sports and Entertainment Law Journal, President of Phi Delta Phi legal ethics honors fraternity and Secretary for the Natural Resources and Environmental Law Society.  Her internships included work with two Duke University entities, a start-up company, the Fulton County Conflict Defender, the DeKalb County Public Defender, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service Realty Division, Rock the Earth, a nonprofit environmental advocacy organization that partners with the music industry, a concert promotions internship with AEG Live, an internship with top hockey agents at K.O. Sports, Inc., and work as an Associate with Tennessee Volunteer Lawyers and Professionals for the Arts.    She also served as an Intellectual Property Law Teaching Assistant for a close mentor, Professor Robert Sullivan of Loeb & Loeb, at Nashville School of Law.  

Ashley's extensive legal background as a licensed attorney includes work as a contract Metro Conflict Defender representing indigent clients charged with both complex and noncomplex felonies, a contractor for the Cobb County Circuit Defender representing indigent clients in both State and Superior Courts, employment at international law firm King & Spalding, and employment as General Counsel and Vice President of Business Development for a large chain of boat and recreational vehicle dealerships where she was responsible for both multi-state and international corporate divisions.  She is licensed to practice law in both Georgia and Tennessee. 

Ashley focuses her practice on entertainment, music and art clients and has served as a Volunteer Lawyer with Tennessee Volunteer Lawyers and Professionals for the Arts as well as Georgia Lawyers for the Arts and she currently works as a Consultant in Artist Rights Acquisition for Live Nation. She is active in multiple bar associations including the Georgia Bar Association where she is a member of the Sports and Entertainment Law Section and the American Bar Association, where she is a member of the Forum on Entertainment and Sports Industries, the Business Law section, the Intellectual Property section and the Litigation section.  She served as the Co-Chair and Content Editor for the American Bar Association Young Lawyers Division Committee on the Entertainment and Sports Industry 2015-2016 and was recently appointed to serve as the ABA YLD Vice Chair of Committees and Liaisons and Programming Manager 2016-2017.  Ashley has also held membership with the National Association of Record Industry Professionals and has excelled in her side coursework in the Berklee College of Music/ SNHU Music Business MBA program.  Her artwork may be found in silent auctions throughout the South benefiting various charities and online on her Couch Artist site, including her Control2Chaos 365 day art project, and a few of her pieces are for sale via the international modern art gallery The Carlos Reid Gallery.  Ashley has studied French, Spanish, and Italian aside from her native English language, and resides in Atlanta though she can be found in Atlanta, Athens or Nashville on any given day.​