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Ashley M. Teesdale
Ringstad & Sanders, LLP
Newport Beach, CA
Associate
Ashley M. Teesdale practices insolvency law and business litigation at Ringstad & Sanders, LLP in Newport Beach, California. Ms. Teesdale’s experience includes representing debtors, trustees, and creditors in Chapter 7 and 11 cases and related litigation, including adversary proceedings regarding objection to discharge, non-dischargeability, and preferential and fraudulent transfer actions. Ms. Teesdale served a two-and-a-half year term as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Scott C. Clarkson, United States Bankruptcy Judge for the Central District of California and also served as a full time volunteer law clerk for the Honorable Mark S. Wallace, United States Bankruptcy Judge for the Central District of California.
Ms. Teesdale earned her juris doctorate degree from American University Washington College of Law, where she was a Note and Comment Editor for the Business Law Review and a Line Editor for the Criminal Law Brief. She graduated from Dickinson College with a Bachelor of Arts in English and minors in mathematics and Spanish. She is a member of the American Bankruptcy Institute, Orange County Bar Association, Commercial Law and Bankruptcy Section, and the Orange County Bankruptcy Forum, where she currently serves as a Member of the Board of Directors.
COURT ADMISSION
Supreme Court of California
United States District Courts for the Central, Eastern, and Northern Districts of California.
SPEAKING AND EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES
Co-Program Chair & Moderator, The Harried and Hassled Attorney: Combating Stress Through Understanding Brain Science, Embracing Adversity and Other Strategies, Orange County Bankruptcy Forum
Co-Program Chair, Judges’ Night: A Virtual Roundtable Discussion, Orange County Bankruptcy Forum
Program Producer, California Bankruptcy Forum Annual Insolvency Conference 2022
Consumer Co-Chair, California Bankruptcy Forum Annual Insolvency Conference 2023
HONORS
Best Lawyers in America: Ones to Watch 2021-2023
Selected to participate in the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges Next Generation Program, 2022