About Ashling
Ashling Soares built a legal career that moves between public service and private practice. She appears at trial and in administrative proceedings. Colleagues say she blends courtroom experience with agency-side work.
She earned a J.D. from the University of Miami School of Law in 2011 after completing undergraduate studies at Boston College, where she received a B.A. in 2008. Her legal education placed her on a path into public defense and child welfare, and those threads have continued through her career.
Soares began practicing in 2011 as an assistant public defender in Broward County. There she represented clients in criminal matters and handled day-to-day litigation tasks typical of a county public defender’s office. In 2015 she shifted to government work as an agency lawyer at the Administration for Children’s Services. That role exposed her to the procedures and pressures of child welfare litigation and administrative hearings.
In 2017 she moved back into private practice as an associate at Maya Murphy, P.C. At the firm she handled client representation in court and advised on case strategy. A year later she launched her own practice, opening Ashling Soares Law in 2018. Since founding the firm she has managed a caseload that draws on both her trial background and her knowledge of agency processes.
Soares is admitted to practice in Florida, Connecticut and New York. She holds membership in the State Bar of New York and in the Fairfield County Bar Association. Those affiliations reflect the multi-jurisdictional reach of her work and the regional nature of many of the matters she accepts.
Clients and courtroom professionals describe Soares as thorough and persistent. She prepares cases for trial, appears in hearings and represents clients in administrative forums. Her writing and oral advocacy are regular parts of the practice she maintains.
Her office, Ashling Soares Law, handles matters that involve criminal defense and child welfare matters, among other contested legal issues. Her current practice concentrates on representing individuals in criminal and family-related proceedings across her admitted jurisdictions.
