Ashley D. Adams is an attorney with Adams & Associates PLC in Scottsdale, Arizona. Her practice includes Criminal Defense: General Practice and Criminal Defense: White-Collar matters, with a focus on representing businesses and individuals in federal and state investigations, criminal proceedings, regulatory matters, and health care qui tam cases.
Ashley Adams has been recognized by Best Lawyers since 2011 for her work in Criminal Defense: General Practice and Criminal Defense: White-Collar. The recognition is based on peer review within the legal profession. She also has been selected for inclusion in Arizona’s Best Lawyers, Southwest Super Lawyers since 2010, Arizona’s Finest Lawyers, and National Trial Lawyers Top 100 for Criminal Defense.
Before founding Adams & Associates PLC, Ms. Adams served as a United States Assistant Attorney and was previously a partner with The Phoenix Law Group and O’Connor Cavanagh. Her background includes handling complex white-collar criminal defense matters involving corporate and individual clients in both federal and state courts.
Ms. Adams earned her Juris Doctor from Arizona State University in 1991 and her undergraduate degree from the University of Oklahoma in 1988. She currently serves as co-chair of the American Bar Association’s Southwest Region Subcommittee on White Collar Crime and is a member of the ABA’s Health Care Fraud Subcommittee.

