Ashley L Vaughn

Advocating for people who have been mistreated or victimized is Ashley’s legal passion. At Dumas & Vaughn, Ashley’s practice focuses on representing victims of sexual abuse, sexual assault and harassment, and domestic violence. She handles all aspects of preparing cases for trial, including drafting legal motions on cutting-edge legal theories, arguing for her clients in court, and negotiating significant settlements. Ashley has tackled legal issues for her clients in federal and state courts in Oregon, Washington, California, Texas, Idaho, Montana, New York, and New Mexico.

Ashley graduated cum laude from Lewis & Clark Law School in 2011. During law school, she kept busy by clerking for the District Attorney’s office, where she worked on a wide range of criminal cases and took several cases to trial; volunteering with the National Crime Victims Law Institute, an organization at the forefront of developments in victims’ rights nationwide; and serving as a Lead Article Editor for the Lewis and Clark Law Review. After law school, she became an associate attorney at O’Donnell Clark & Crew LLP, where she gained substantial civil litigation experience in abuse and employment cases.

Ashley is an active member of the state and federal bars in Oregon, the Multnomah Bar Association, Oregon Women Lawyers, and the Oregon Trial Lawyers Association, an organization comprised solely of plaintiffs' trial attorneys. She does pro bono work for Legal Aid Services of Oregon and the Victims Rights Law Center, and volunteers as a coach for the We the People high school constitutional law program. She spends most of her free time hanging out with her pets and husband, reading, trying new recipes, and exploring Oregon’s outdoors.