Ashley M. Pavel
Associate
Ashley Pavel is an associate in O'Melveny's Newport Beach office and a member of the Financial Services Practice.
Prior to joining O'Melveny, Ashley worked as an intern at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an international non-profit digital rights advocate and legal organization based in San Francisco.
Illustrative Professional Experience
- Representing one of the nation’s largest servicers of subprime mortgages in a series of adversary proceedings alleging wrongful accounting and unreasonable assessment of fees
- Representing a manufacturer and supplier of audio, video, and computer equipment in a putative class action alleging consumer fraud, breach of warranty, and violation of the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act
- Representing an automaker in a putative class action alleging consumer fraud and breach of warranty
- Representing a manufacturer and supplier of landscaping materialsin a series of product liability disputes
- Representing a large subprime mortgage originator and servicer in a lawsuit alleging predatory lending brought by a state attorney general
- Representing a pro bono client in an immigration matter
Professional Activities
Extern, Honorable John Noonan, US Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
Author, "Reforming the Reproduction Right: The Case for Personal Use Copies,"
Berkeley Technology Law Journal (2010); "
Leegin v. PSKS: New Standard, New Challenges,"
Berkeley Technology Law Journal (2008); "The Stigma of Mental Illness and its Deleterious Effects on Psychiatric Treatment and Recovery,"
UCSB Law & Society Journal, winner of the Santa Barbara County Bar Foundation Paper Prize (2006)
Member, Orange County Bar Association
Languages, French