Benchmark Arbitrator Ashley Evans
ARBITRATION EXPERIENCE
Panel of Arbitrators, Benchmark Arbitrations, Inc., 2021
ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION TRAINING
Advanced Alternative Dispute Resolution, 2020;
The Ethics of Negotiation, 2017;
ADR/Family Law Sections Panel on Arbitration, 2016;
The Ethics of Mediation, 2016;
Family Mediation Training, 2014;
Basic Mediation Training, 2013;
ADR Case Law Update and Ethics, 2007
EXPERIENCE
Gilbert Mediation Group, Dallas, TX
Attorney/Mediator
January 2017 – Present
- Full-time service as neutral mediator in a wide variety of cases involving personal injury,
products liability, UM/UIM, construction, automobile and trucking claims, employment
torts, business torts, breach of contract and other disputes. Typical case volume is
approximately 250 cases per year.
Gammon Mediations, Dallas, TX
Attorney/Mediator for Personal Injury and Family Law
January 2014 - December 2016
- Mediated hundreds of personal injury and family law cases to settlement, including
premises liability, UM/UIM, construction, debt collection, automobile and trucking claims
Walters, Balido & Crain, L.L.P., Dallas, TX
Partner, December 2010 - December 2013
Litigation Associate, January 2006 - December 2010
- Practice areas included personal injury defense, premises liability, commercial litigation,
construction defect, and commercial vehicle/trucking litigation
- Substantial experience in all aspects of civil litigation from case intake through final
disposition at trial, including party and expert depositions, discovery, mediation and trial
- Handled heavy caseload in a busy litigation practice, often managing more than 50
cases in litigation at one time
- Served as lead trial attorney and second chair attorney, and tried numerous cases to
successful verdict in the State of Texas and Federal Court
- Licensed in all Courts of the State of Texas, and the United States District Court for the
Northern District of Texas
- In addition to trials, oral advocacy and courtroom experience includes advocating for
clients in hearings and resolving countless cases in mediation
- 2014 Texas Rising Star
Touchstone, Bernays, Johnston, Beall, Smith & Stollenwerck, L.L.P., Dallas, TX
Litigation Associate, August 2004 - January 2006
Summer Associate, May 2003 - July 2003
Personal injury litigation, motor vehicle, products liability and premises liability
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND RECOGNITION
- State Bar of Texas, Admitted 2004
- Admitted to practice in the Northern District of Texas
- Dallas Bar Association
- Speaker, "Trucking Liability: How to Keep Your Company from Facing a Lawsuit"– ProPickup Expo 2013–Dallas Convention Center
*Certified Mediator by the State of Texas
**Certified Mediator in Family Law by the State of Texas
***Texas Rising Star ADR 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
- Volunteer for Dallas Children's Advocacy Center
- Volunteer for Dallas Dispute Resolution Center, 2013 – 2017
- Elizabeth Toon Charities, Former Committee Member
- Kappa Kappa Gamma Alumnae Group
- Junior Group of the Marianne Scruggs Garden Club, Committee Chair
EDUCATION
Texas Tech University School of Law, Lubbock, TX Juris Doctor, 2004
Texas Tech Law Review, 2002-2004
Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX Bachelor of Arts, Public Relations, 2001
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