Ryan Q. Ashworth is an associate in the Firm's West Virginia office where his practice focuses on medical professional liability defense, transportation law and the defense of catastrophic injury cases. 

Mr. Ashworth has experience in a variety of litigation matters. Some of his experience includes:

• researching and drafting appellate argument before United States Supreme Court and West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals in Caperton v. A.T. Massey Coal, Inc., which led to the reversal of a $50 million verdict against client, A.T. Massey Coal, Inc. 
• obtaining multiple defense verdicts as first- and second-chair trial attorney.

Mr. Ashworth has also worked as an assistant prosecutor for the Kenton Prosecutor’s Office, located in Hardin County, Ohio. In that capacity, he worked with state and federal investigatory bureaus and departments in preparation for criminal litigation, as well as represented the State of Ohio as an assistant municipal prosecutor in various hearings and trials. While in the Kenton Prosecutor’s Office, Mr. Ashworth successfully litigated as second-chair trial attorney in a largely publicized criminal trial where the accused had publicly threatened to shoot down private airplanes due to alleged noise and privacy concerns. Additionally, Mr. Ashworth worked as a summer associate and a law clerk for law firms in West Virginia and Ohio, and was a law clerk for the Honorable Margaret Evans in the Gallipolis (Ohio)  Municipal Court.

Mr. Ashworth served six years in the United States Marine Corps where he reached the rank of Sergeant. He was a Combat Engineer, where he specialized in explosives and demolitions, as well as close-quarters battle. He was awarded numerous medals and achievements, to include a Navy Achievement Medal for Duty Overseas and Company Marine of the Year Honors for Alpha Company, 4^th Combat Engineer Battalion, 4^th Marine Division, U.S.M.C.  Mr. Ashworth has completed tours of duty in Panama and Estonia.

Mr. Ashworth is admitted to practice in West Virginia and Ohio.

He is the author of State v. Schmidt; A Case Review, 31 OHIO N.U. L. REV. 490-96 (2005).

In 2006, Mr. Ashworth earned a Juris Doctor, with honors, from the Ohio Northern University, Claude W. Pettit College of Law. He was the Ohio Review Editor for the Ohio Northern Law Review and was a member of The Willis Society, the highest academic honor society at the College of Law, which is restricted to the top 10 percent of the third-year class. He was a finalist in the Streetlaw Moot Court Competition and won CALI Book Awards in Contracts, Civil Procedure, and Bad Faith Litigation. In 2003, Mr. Ashworth received a B.A. in Criminal Justice/Legal Studies from Marshall University, College of Liberal Arts, located in Huntington, West Virginia.