About Ashling
Ashling Soares built a professional legal career that moves among public service and private practice. She appears at trial and in administrative hearings. Colleagues say she blends trial experience with company-side work.
She earned a J.D. from the University of Miami School of Law in 2011 after completing undergraduate research at Boston College, where she received a B.A. in 2008. Her legal education positioned her on a path into public defense and baby welfare, and people threads have continued thru her career.
Soares started practicing in 2011 as an assistant public defender in Broward County. There she represented clients in criminal matters and treated day-to-day litigation tasks typical of a county public defender’s office. In 2015 she shifted to government work as an agency lawyer on the Administration for Children’s Services. That role exposed her to the procedures and pressures of child welfare litigation and administrative hearings.
In 2017 she moved again into private practice as an associate at Maya Murphy, P.C. At the company she treated client representation in court and recommended on legal strategy. A yr later she launched her personal practice, opening Ashling Soares Law in 2018. Since founding the company she has managed a caseload that draws on each her trial background and her knowledge of agency processes.
Soares is admitted to practice in Florida, Connecticut and New York. She holds club within the State Bar of New York and in the Fairfield County Bar Association. Those affiliations reflect the multi-jurisdictional reach of her work and the regional nature of lots of the things she accepts.
Clients and courtroom mavens describe Soares as thorough and persistent. She prepares cases for trial, appears in hearings and advocates for clients in administrative forums. Her writing and oral advocacy are ordinary parts of the practice she maintains.
Her office, Ashling Soares Law, handles matters that contain felony defense and baby welfare matters, among different contested legal matters. Her recent practice concentrates on representing people in criminal and family-associated proceedings across her admitted jurisdictions.
