Ashley Ricket

Ashley Ricket is a Kansas City attorney focusing on nursing home abuse, nursing home neglect, medical malpractice, daycare abuse, insurance bad faith, wrongful death, catastrophic injury, brain injury, truck crash, and sexual abuse claims. Her work supports vulnerable clients and families facing harm, loss, and difficult questions about care failures. She helps clients investigate facts, review records, identify responsible parties, and pursue accountability through litigation and settlement.

Ashley earned a law degree from the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law. She also attended the University of Kansas. Her education supports legal research, trial preparation, written advocacy, and client counseling. She uses that background to analyze medical records, nursing home regulations, expert opinions, facility policies, staffing issues, insurance disputes, and damages involving abuse, neglect, malpractice, and preventable injuries.

Ashley has handled hundreds of nursing home abuse and medical malpractice cases. She has litigated matters in Missouri, Illinois, Kansas, the Federal Court of Claims, the Missouri Supreme Court, and the Missouri Court of Appeals for the Western District. Her trial work includes a California elder abuse case resulting in a judgment exceeding $23 million for a family whose loved one died from neglect-related pressure ulcers.

Ashley Ricket helps clients pursue justice after abuse, neglect, medical errors, institutional failures, and serious injuries. Her work often seeks compensation and policy changes to prevent future harm. She is licensed in Missouri, Kansas, and Illinois. Recognized by Women’s Justice Awards, Missouri Lawyers Weekly, Super Lawyers, and the National Trial Lawyers, she brings litigation experience, regulatory knowledge, and advocacy to complex injury cases involving vulnerable people.

Law Office Affiliations

• Founding Member, Ricket Law Firm LLC
• Member, State Bar of Kansas
• Member, Missouri Bar Association
• Member, Missouri Association of Trial Attorneys, Board of Governors, Amicus Committee, Women’s Caucus
• Board Member, Association for Women Lawyers for Greater Kansas City
• Member, American Association for Justice
• Member, Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association
• Member, Hope House

Licensed State

• Kansas
• Missouri

Education

• University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law
  Juris Doctor (JD)
• University of Kansas
  Bachelor of Arts (BA)

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