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S. Jeramy Ashton
Associate
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Overview
Jeramy Ashton focuses his diverse practice on developing and implementing effective dispute resolution strategies to help clients efficiently and beneficially resolve legal matters in a manner that mitigates and minimizes monetary and reputational damage. In particular, he utilizes a background as a health care worker, consultant, and policy staffer to defend health care professionals and systems in various healthcare and employment matters.
With a proven commitment to collaborative approaches, Jeramy coordinates with all key stakeholders to advocate for businesses and individuals in venues across the country before mediators, arbitration panels, judges, and juries.
Prior to entering private practice, Jeramy gained valuable experience as a law clerk working in civil rights litigation. He later served as a Public Health Law Fellow for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Legal Fellow for the U.S. House Judiciary Committee, Research Fellow for the National Agricultural Law Center, and Judicial Extern for Judge Wilson in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas.
For outstanding service with the federal court, the International Association of LGBTQ+ Judges selected Jeramy as a 2023 recipient of the Honorable Paul G. Feinman Scholarship.
While earning his Juris Doctor, Jeramy became the founder and president of the Health Law and Policy Society (HeLPS) and published multiple scholarly articles pertaining to health equity, including work presented before the U.S. House Judiciary Committee and later offered publication with the American Bar Association.
Credentials
Education
- University of Arkansas at Little Rock, William H. Bowen School of Law, 2023 (J.D.)
- Utah Valley University, 2019 (B.A.), magna cum laude
Court Admissions
- U.S. District Court for the District of Utah
- Utah Bar Association, Health Law Section; Employment Law Section
- Salt Lake County Bar Association
- The National LGBTQ+ Bar Association
- Daivd K. Watkiss-Sutherland II Inn of Court
- “An Association Between Black Farm Workers in Rural Areas and Access to Broadband Internet,” The Arkansas Journal of Social Change and Public Service, September 2022
- “World AIDS Day: Perseverance in a Pandemic of Prejudice,” The Arkansas Journal of Social Change and Public Service, November 2021
- “Conscience Discrimination: The Hippocratic Oath and Anti-LGBT Legislation,” The Arkansas Journal of Social Change and Public Service, March 2021