Founder and principal of Adams & Associates, Ashley D. Adams, PLC is a former prosecutor with the United States Attorney's Office with over 30 years experience.
Ms. Adams specializes in white collar criminal defense cases, representing corporate and individual clients in federal and state criminal trials, investigations, health care qui tam cases, and regulatory and administrative matters. Ms. Adams is a former United States Assistant Attorney, and a former partner of the law firms of The Phoenix Law Group, and O'Connor Cavanagh. She received her J.D. from Arizona State University in 1991 and her undergraduate degree from the University of Oklahoma in 1988. Ms. Adams currently serves as the American Bar Association's co-chair for the Southwest Region's Subcommittee on White Collar Crime, and is a member of the ABA's Heath Care Fraud Subcommittee. She also has been selected as one of "Arizona's Best Lawyers" and "Southwest's Super Lawyers" Since 2010. Ms. Adams was recently selected to be a member of "Arizona's Finest Lawyers", and by National Trial Lawyers as one of the "Top 100" in Criminal Defense.
J.D., Sandra Day O'Connor School of Law, Arizona State University, 1991
Outstanding Graduation Oral Advocate
Best Brief, Best Oral Advocate, Best Overall Advocate - Canby Competition
Winner of Jenckes Cup Closing Argument Competition
Winner of Trial Advocacy Competition
Represented ASU in Regional Competition
Member of ASU National Moot Court Team/Winner of Regional Competition
Order of the Barristers
Executive Moot Court Board Chairperson-1990-1991
B.A., University of Oklahoma, 1988
G.P.A. 4.0
Phi Beta Kappa
Outstanding Senior in The College of Arts and Sciences
Golden Key Honor Society Outstanding Senior
Dean Bass Memorial Scholarship
Scholarship Chairperson and Treasurer of Delta Delta Delta Sorority
RYAN RAPP & UNDERWOOD, Phoenix, AZ, Partner, July 2007-August of 2009. Practiced in the areas of white collar criminal defense, governmental investigations, quasi-governmental investigations, administrative securities matters, corporate internal investigations, and complex civil litigation. Obtained a large verdict following a jury trial in a discrimination case which arose out of the clients' dispute with their Home Owner's Association.
THE PHOENIX LAW GROUP OF FELDMAN, BROWN, WALA, HALL & AGENA, Phoenix, AZ. Member, February 2005 to July of 2007
Practiced in the areas of white collar criminal defense, governmental investigations, quasi-governmental investigations (BOMEX and nursing board), administrative securities matter, corporate internal investigations, and complex civil litigation.
UNITED STATES ATTORNEY'S OFFICE, Phoenix, AZ. Assistant United States Attorney, June 1999 - January 2005
Prosecuted False Claims Act matters including health care and defense procurement fraud and well as fee fraud in National Parks and Forests. Obtained the largest recorded settlement for the District of Arizona against Boeing/McDonnell Douglas in a False Claim Act case. Prosecuted white collar crime matters including tax evasion and tax fraud, investment fraud, and securities fraud. First chaired two complex criminal health care fraud trials.
O'CONNOR, CAVANAGH, ANDERSON, KILLINGSWORTH & BESHEARS, Phoenix, AZ. Member, December 1996 - June 1999; Associate, September 1991 - December 1996
Practiced in the area of insurance defense, commercial litigation, and Indian law litigation.
Best Lawyers, White Collar Criminal Defense, 2010 & 2011
Phoenix Business Journal, Forty Under Forty Award, 2006
American Bar Association, Member
American Bar Association, Criminal Justice Section Member
American Bar Association Criminal Justice Section, Health Care Fraud Subcommittee Member
Speaker-American Bar Association Annual Meeting, Criminal Justice Section, Health Care Fraud Update-August, 2011, Toronto, CA
Co-Chair, American Bar Association Southwest Region White Collar Crime Committee, 2009-present
Co-Chair, White Collar Crime Update 2010-2011-Arizona State Bar
Speaker, White Collar Crime Update 2008-2009-Arizona State Bar
Speaker, FCA/Qui Tam Litigation Update, San Francisco, CA, 2009
Speaker, CLE by the Sea
Cambridge's Who's Who 2010-2011
Better Business Bureau Accredited Law Firm
Arizona Attorneys for Criminal Justice Member
Adjunct Professor at Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law
Criminal Justice Act Panel Member-representing indigent defendants
Columnist, So Scottsdale
Columnist, Scottsdale Health
University of Oklahoma Alumni Association
Fiesta Bowl Committee Member and Coach 2002-2009
Fiesta Bowl, Rookie of the Year Award, 2002
Head Soccer Coach for Scottsdale Soccer Youth Association-girls 9-10
Founder of "Maddie's Daddy" Charitable Foundation