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Ashia Crooms-Carpenter

Ashia Crooms-Carpenter

Of Counsel

301 S. College Street
23rd Floor
Charlotte, NC 28202
ashia.carpenter@nelsonmullins.com

Ashia practices in the areas of commercial litigation, civil litigation, and class action defense.  She represents clients in various industries, including the automotive, food and beverage, interior design, and rideshare industries.  Ashia also takes her commitment to pro bono service seriously and has handled a broad range of matters, including land-lord tenant, civil rights, license...

Ashia practices in the areas of commercial litigation, civil litigation, and class action defense.  She represents clients in various industries, including the automotive, food and beverage, interior design, and rideshare industries.  Ashia also takes her commitment to pro bono service seriously and has handled a broad range of matters, including land-lord tenant, civil rights, license restoration, child custody, and estate planning.

Ashia Crooms-Carpenter

restoration, child custody, and estate planning.

Ashia practices in the areas of commercial litigation, civil litigation, and class action defense.  She represents clients in various industries, including the automotive, food and beverage, interior design, and rideshare industries.  Ashia also takes her commitment to pro bono service seriously and has handled a broad range of matters, including land-lord tenant, civil rights, license... restoration, child custody, and estate planning.

Experience

The following is a selected sampling of matters and is provided for informational purposes only. Past success does not indicate the likelihood of success in any future matter.

  • Defended consumer class actions involving various industries (e.g., automotive industry and food and beverage industry) and issues (e.g., contract, warranty, tort, false advertising, wage and hour) in state and federal courts

  • Represented public entity in an investigation by the Federal Trade Commission

  • Assisted with multiple internal investigations for a Fortune Global 500 company

  • Defended manufacturers in state and federal court and before state agencies

Internship

  • Judicial Intern, The Honorable Terry L. Wooten, Chief United States District Judge for the District of South Carolina (2014)

Education

  • University of South Carolina School of Law, JD, cum laude (2016)
    • Order of the Wig and Robe
    • Recipient, Diversity Scholarship, Columbia law firm (2014)
    • Production Editor, ABA Real Property, Probate, Trust & Estate Journal
    • Children’s Law Program, Certificate of Concentration
    • Student Ambassador
    • Historian, Black Law Students Association
  • Wingate University, BA, English, magna cum laude (2012)

Admissions

  • North Carolina
  • South Carolina
  • U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina
  • U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina
  • U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina
  • U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina

Practice Areas

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  • South Carolina Bar Association

  • South Carolina Black Lawyers Association

  • South Carolina Women Lawyers Association

  • North Carolina Bar Association

  • 26th Judicial District Bar

  • Volunteer, Carolina Film Festival (nonprofit organization)