Art, Steve

KC Ashmore is an associate with Chamblee & Ryan. KC strives to provide each of the Firm’s clients with the highest level of service, whenever their needs arise.

KC has defended a variety of businesses, designers, corporations, employers, and manufacturers in various litigation matters, including companies in the military contracting, automotive and heavy truck manufacturing, marine, power generation, HVAC, diesel, fluid engineering and control, and petrochemical fields. KC has extensive experience as an advocate briefing and arguing innovative points of law, including jurisdictional challenges, discovery disputes, motions for summary judgment, evidentiary challenges, third party liability claims, and trial briefs, as well as comprehensive investigation and deposition experience, including taking and defending complex fact, expert, party and non-party witness depositions in multi-party litigation.

KC has served as associate counsel, on a national level, defending various industrial, automotive, heavy equipment machinery manufacturers and military contractors against component part product-liability claims. KC’s experience in these personal injury and wrongful death cases has included nationwide participation in the discovery process, including document inspections and productions, site inspections, discovery disputes, and defending all aspects of these product related claims. KC has also served as an associate counsel, defending manufacturing plant landowners in negligence cases brought by contractors, as well as defending a national automotive parts distributor against employment related matters.

Before joining the Defense bar, KC had the distinction to serve two terms as a Judicial Clerk on one of Texas’ highest appellate courts, The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. At the Court, KC’s duties included analyzing voluminous appeals, including capital crimes, for constitutional error, researching and drafting court and scholarly memoranda regarding complex legal issues ranging from search and seizure, lesser included offenses, actual innocence claims, capital punishment, constitutional derivations from Miranda laws, jury selection, and punishment enhancements.

KC also had the privilege to serve as a law clerk at Texas’ 165th Civil District Court, managing the court’s dispositive motion docket and briefing each and every issue where relief was sought as a matter of law, developing a uniform briefing process, and memorializing rulings on specific issues to increase efficiency and conserve judicial resources.

KC is a proud veteran of the United States Coast Guard, Search and Rescue, Semper Paratus 1992-96.