About Ashley Mitchell

Ashley Mitchell grew up in East Amherst, New York. She received a bachelor's degree from New York University in 2011, where she was part of the figure skating team, then earned her Juris Doctor from Brooklyn Law School in 2015. Before joining William Mattar, she worked as a law clerk at a criminal defense firm on a high-profile second-degree murder case and with RICO specialists and civil litigators in federal courts in New York, Delaware, and California. She also served as a judicial intern for the Honorable Hope Schwartz Zimmerman in Nassau County Supreme Court. Mitchell was admitted in New York in 2016 and focuses on personal injury cases, advocating for clients whose injuries were caused by the negligence of others.

Proven verdicts and settlements at William Mattar Law Offices

These results are credited to William Mattar Law Offices. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.

$900,000Verdict

A jury awarded $1.2 million in pain and suffering to a retired 69-year-old woman struck by an unmarked Town of Cheektowaga police vehicle as she crossed legally in a crosswalk, with the Fourth Department unanimously affirming the verdict on appeal.

Supreme Court, Erie County, NY · 2018Car AccidentsRead the full story →
Verdict

William Mattar, P.C. won a landmark ruling for a postal carrier bitten by a dog, convincing New York's highest court to abolish the 2006 'Bard v. Jahnke' precedent that had barred negligence claims against domestic animal owners for 19 years.

New York Court of Appeals · 2025Premises LiabilityRead the full story →

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Education

Brooklyn Law School
J.D., 2015
New York University
Undergraduate, 2011

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