Overview

Ashley represents contractors, subcontractors, suppliers, and owners in the construction industry, advising on contract matters, risk mitigation, and dispute resolution.

She drafts, reviews, and revises construction contracts, subcontracts, purchase orders, and related documents, and counsels clients on bond, claim, lien, and prompt payment issues. Ashley also handles litigation arising out of construction disputes.

Before rejoining McNees, Ashley served as corporate counsel for a Lancaster-based family of food-service equipment and supply companies. She negotiated commercial, distribution, supply, and lease agreements and worked with the company’s specialty construction businesses on claims, warranty, and project matters. Her prior construction and insurance practice also informs her work with clients on contract and dispute issues.

Ashley is a co-member-in-charge of McNees’ Lancaster office. She speaks and writes on construction-related issues and participated in the American Bar Association Forum on Construction Law Trial Academy.

  • Construction trade organization: Obtained preliminary injunction against Pennsylvania Department of General Services’ use of a mandatory public labor agreement for the $300 million state-funded Norristown Hospital construction project in Montgomery County, Pa.
  • Heavy and highway contractor: Represented a national contractor in prosecuting a delay and inefficiency claim against the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation in the Commonwealth Board of Claims on a highway project that was impacted by design and permitting issues related to endangered species.
  • Material supplier: Represented asphalt supplier in dispute with the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission relating to asphalt mix design and the removal and replacement directive.
  • Heavy and highway contractor: Represented a contractor in prosecuting a delay claim against the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation in the Commonwealth Board of Claims in a rock scaling project in western Pennsylvania.
  • Telecommunications contractor: Represented national contractor in prosecuting a construction claim against the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission that included issues relating to delays and differing site conditions for the placement of fiber optics.
  • Construction trade organization: Obtained preliminary injunction against Pennsylvania Department of General Services’ use of a mandatory project labor agreement for the state-funded Joint Labs construction project in Dauphin County, Pa.
  • Construction contractor: Successfully defended a contractor as a landowner in dispute with a property neighbor relating to stormwater runoff.
  • Pennsylvania State University Dickinson School of Law, J.D.
  • Susquehanna University, B.S., accounting, magna cum laude
  • Pennsylvania
  • Supreme Court of the United States
  • U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
  • U.S District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania
  • U.S District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania
  • One to Watch, Best Lawyers (Construction Law), 2026
  • Rising Star, Super Lawyers (Construction Litigation: Business), 2019-2021
  • Lancaster County Bar Association, Women in the Profession, past committee chair
  • Lancaster Conservancy, board member
  • Lancaster Chamber
  • The Lancaster County Board of Elections, Judge of Elections (appointed)
  • Yet Another Chance to Curtail the Powers of the King, Highway Builder, Spring 2026
  • The Ties that Bond Us: The Realities of Surety Bonding, Highway Builder, Fall 2025
  • Pay-if-Paid Payment Provisions are no Longer an Iron-Clad Defense, Highway Builder, Spring 2025
  • Manufacturers, Regular Dealers, and Distributors – Oh My: How DOT’s Revamp of the DBE Program can Impact You, Highway Builder, Fall 2024
  • Working on the Highway: Spencer and the Cost of Doing Business, Highway Builder, Summer 2024
  • Using Prompt Payment Laws to Fill the Voids Created by Lien Waivers, Construction Executive, Oct. 2018
  • Applying the Procurement Code: Problem Areas and the Need for Future Direction, The Pennsylvania Bar Association Quarterly, Oct. 2014
  • Pennsylvania Prompt Payment Act Update 2022, Pennsylvania Bar Institute, Feb. 2022
  • Avoiding Waiver – How to Preserve Claims for Appellate Review, Lancaster Bar Association, May 2018

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