Meet your appellate advocate

Ashley is passionate about working with her clients to ensure they have an active role in their representation as well as fully understanding all options available to them to resolve their case. Ashley’s practice focuses on appellate advocacy and post judgment/conviction relief. She tackles every appeal and post judgment relief motion with the same zealous advocacy that she practices in her trial level cases. Ashley has been involved with several appeals which have resulted in published opinions that are regularly discussed and relied upon throughout the North Carolina legal community.

When Ashley is not out fighting for you and challenging legal precedent, you can find her out training for her next 5k,10k, or half. Ashley puts as much devotion into your case as she does her run training. Ashley enjoys the challenge of a good puzzle, whether it be crossword, jigsaw or the intracies of a legal argument.

If you are looking an honest, dedicated, and zealous advocate for your case, contact us to schedule with Ashley to discuss what Round 2 Legal can do for you.

admitted.

North Carolina State Bar, 2012

Supreme Court of the United States of America, 2024

U.S. District Court, Western District of North Carolina, 2022

U.S. District Court, Eastern District of North Carolina, 2022

educated.

J.D., Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University, 2012
Certificate in Family Law Studies
Associate with the Center for Children, Families and the Law Juvenile Justice Clinic Intern
Managing Editor of Articles for Family Court Review Vol. 50

B.S., Tulane University, 2009
Dean’s List
Phi Sigma Pi National Coed Honor Fraternity

experienced.

Ashley has been practicing law since 2012 where, upon graduation from law school she returned home to Charlotte to grow her career in her hometown. She began her career in the real estate field. She honed her skills as a litigation and appellate attorney at a mid-sized firm where her practice was focused on family law cases, appellate cases in both civil and criminal matters, as well as post judgment relief matters. Ms. Crowder was board certified as a specialist in Family Law in 2021.

Ashley is passionate about working with her clients to ensure they have an active role in their representation as well as fully understanding all options available to them to resolve their case. She tackles every appeal and post judgment relief motion with the same zealous advocacy that she practices in her trial level cases.

local.

Ashley Crowder is a native Charlottean. While growing up in Charlotte, she attended Paw Creek Elementary, Piedmont Open Middle School and graduated from West Mecklenburg High School as salutatorian. She left North Carolina to pursue undergraduate studies at Tulane University of New Orleans, where during her freshman year Hurricane Katrina devastated the city of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, forcing her to return home for the fall semester. While back in North Carolina, Ms. Crowder attended Belmont Abbey College for a semester before returning to Tulane.

Ashley returned home in 2012 and has been building her law practice gaining a wealth of experience across multiple areas of law.

Published.

  • Pelc v. Pham (USCIS Form I-864 Affidavit of Support and Foreign Money Judgments)

  • Sullivan v. Woody and Woody (2022) (Attorney Fees, Mandate of Court of Appeals)

  • Sullivan v. Woody and Woody (2020) (Attorney Fees)

  • In the Matter of: L.M.M. (Termination of Parental Rights)

  • Walker-Snyder v. Snyder (DVPO, Competent Evidence of Substantial Emotional Distress)

  • Sinclair v. Sinclair (Subject Matter Jurisdiction)

honored.

Board Certified Specialist, Family Law, 2021

  • Super Lawyers Rising Star, 2020

  • Super Lawyers Rising Star, 2021

  • Super Lawyers Rising Star, 2022

  • Super Lawyers Rising Star, 2023

  • Super Lawyers Rising Star, 2024

dedicated.

These experiences coupled with completing a degree in Psychology with a focus on children and adolescent psychology, lead Ms. Crowder to pursue a developing passion for working with families in law school. During her law school tenure Ms. Crowder received a Public Justice Foundation Fellowship that allowed her to intern at the Nassau County Department of Social Services. During her time interning at Social Services, Ms. Crowder encountered many families in crisis and developed a strong ability to empathize as well as assist in problem solving to get at the root of a family’s problems rather than just treating the symptoms of an underlying conflict.