Personal Injury

“Ashley Ricket’s practice focuses on personal injury litigation, representing plaintiffs specifically in the areas of nursing home abuse and neglect, medical malpractice, daycare abuse, and insurance bad faith. She has litigated cases in state and federal courts in Missouri, Illinois and Kansas; the Federal Court of Claims in Washington, D.C.; the Supreme Court of Missouri; and the Missouri Court of Appeals for the Western District of Missouri. Ashley went to trial in an elder abuse case in California over a period of 10 weeks in 2013 with co­-counsel Lesley Clement.

In 2012, Ashley was selected by Missouri judges and her peers to receive the Rising Star Award at the Women’s Justice Awards, awarded to women lawyers 40 or under or within the first 10 years of practice who have already made a difference in the justice system or the profession and who appear on a path toward even greater accomplishment. Also in 2012, Ashley was recognized by Missouri Lawyers Weekly as one of Missouri’s “Up & Coming” attorneys, and has been named to the National Trial Lawyers association Top 40 Under 40 list in 2012-­2015. Ashley has also been named to Kansas City Business Journal’s Best of the Bar for 2013 through 2016 and Super Lawyers for Missouri and Kansas for the years 2012-­2016. Ashley is licensed to practice in Missouri, Illinois and Kansas.

Ashley currently serves on the board of governors for the Missouri Association of Trial Attorneys and the Excecutive Committee for the Association for Women Lawyers of Greater Kansas City. Ashley is also a published author in the Journal of the Missouri Bar as well as the Missouri Association of Trial Attorneys’ magazine, Missouri Trial Attorney.

Ashley lives in the Kansas City area with her husband and two young toddler boys. She enjoys spending time with her family, playing golf, and running.”