Ashley E. Ratliff

Associate

Ashley Ratliff focuses on public agency litigation and transactional and advisory work for public and private clients, often regarding labor and employment matters, as an associate in the Municipal Law and Labor & Employment practice groups at Best Best & Krieger LLP.

Recently, Ashley assisted a client city facing bad faith bargaining charges filed with the Public Employment Relations Board and has assisted in the defense of a private client against unfair labor practice charges before the National Labor Relations Board. Ashley also assists client cities respond to Pitchess motions seeking confidential peace officer personnel records.

Ashley also helps research and draft local regulations and ordinances regarding a variety of issues, including emerging issues related to the “sharing economy,” such as transportation network companies and “home-sharing.” She has analyzed and advised cities and special districts on issues ranging from conflict of interest to grant deeds and public rights-of-way.

Prior to joining BB&K, Ashley worked as a summer and post-bar law clerk at the League of California Cities in Sacramento. While there, Ashley assisted with the League’s amicus program and analyzed a wide variety of legal and legislative issues presenting statewide significance for California cities, including prevailing wage, legislative invocations and anti-SLAPP actions.

Ashley obtained her law degree magna cum laude from the University of San Francisco School of Law. While in law school, Ashley externed at the First District Court of Appeal for the Hon. James A. Richman. Ashley also worked as a legal intern for the San Francisco City Attorney’s Office in the Complex and Special Litigation Department. Ashley served as the executive director of the USF Moot Court Program, managing the eight-member student executive board and overseeing the program’s first-year moot court exercise and intercollegiate advocacy teams. As a first-year law student, Ashley worked at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, a joint United Nations and Cambodian special tribunal prosecuting the senior-most leaders of the Khmer Rouge regime.

Education

• University of San Francisco, School of Law, J.D., magna cum laude
• University of Southern California, B.A., cum laude

Bar Admissions

• California

Awards

• Academic Achievement Award, USF School of Law
• McAuliffe Honor Society Member & Scholarship Recipient

Memberships

• Sacramento County Bar Association, member
• Women Lawyers Association of Sacramento, member

Leadership

• Executive Director, USF Moot Court Program (2013-2014)