Ashley McLachlan

Bar Admissions

• California

Education

• Loyola Law School (J.D., cum laude, Order of the Coif)
  • A.B.A Moot Court Team, Oralist
    • San Francisco Regional Champions, Best Advocate, Best Brief
    • National Awards for Second-Best Brief
  • Federal Bar Association Thurgood Marshall Moot Court Team, Oralist
  • Loyola of Los Angeles, International & Comparative Law Review
    • Staffer
    • Chief Research Editor
• University of California, Los Angeles (B.A., Anthropology with honors, magna cum laude)
  • Dean’s Honor List
  • UCLA Kappa Alpha Pi, Fundraising Chair and Historian
  • Academic Scholarship Recognition Award

Previous Professional Experience

• United States District Court, Central District of California, Law Clerk (2022)
• Honorable Milan D. Smith, Jr., Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, Judicial Extern (2020)
• Snell & Wilmer
  • Associate (2021-2022)
  • Summer Associate (2019)
• Honorable Andrew J. Guilford, Federal District Court Central District of California, Judicial Extern (2018)
• Kathleen D. Crane, A Law Corporation, Legal Assistant (2013-2017)
• Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office, Intern (2013)

Professional Memberships and Activities

• Loyola Law School Women’s Law Association, Member (2017-2020)

Community Involvement

• Loyola Law School Orange County Alumni Counsel, Member (2021-Present)

Representative Presentations and Publications

• “Non-Competes Are Not Only Void in California But Can Now Subject Employers to Liability,” Co-Author, Snell & Wilmer Legal Alert (September 15, 2024)
• “Employees in California Get a Bump in Paid Sick Leave,” Co-Author, Snell & Wilmer Legal Alert (October 6, 2023)
• “California Raises Minimum Wage – Again,” Co-Author, Snell & Wilmer Legal Alert (August 31, 2023)
• “Back From the Dead: California Legislature Resurrects the Industrial Welfare Commission,” Co-Author, Snell & Wilmer Legal Alert (July 31, 2023)
• “California Revives COVID-19 Supplemental Paid Sick Leave,” Co-Author, Snell & Wilmer Legal Alert (February 10, 2022)
• “Are Your Academic Institution’s Athletes “Employees” Under NLRA? The NLRB General Counsel Thinks So.,” Co-Author, Snell & Wilmer Legal Alert (November 9, 2021)
• “A Recent Supreme Court Decision Impacts Union Organizing for Agricultural Workers in California,” Co-Author, Snell & Wilmer Legal Alert (July 9, 2021)
• “A Recent Supreme Court Decision Impacts Union Organizing for Agricultural Workers in California,” Co-Author, Snell & Wilmer Labor and Employment Law Blog (July 9, 2021)
• “Affinity Groups and Labor Laws,” Co-Author, Snell & Wilmer Legal Alert (May 12, 2021)
• “California’s New COVID-19 Supplemental Paid Sick Leave—Senate Bill No. 95,” Co-Author, Snell & Wilmer Legal Alert (March 24, 2021)
• “The American Rescue Plan Act: How the New Legislation Affects Employers,” Co-Author, Snell & Wilmer Legal Alert (March 16, 2021)