Mr. Ashmore's trial experience includes dozens of criminal trials as a Federal prosecutor. These cases include bankruptcy fraud, bank fraud and numerous drug offenses including multi-defendant conspiracy cases. Mr. Ashmore submitted numerous briefs to the Fourth Circuit and he has argued before the Fourth Circuit panel on three occasions. He has also argued before the South Carolina Supreme Court and obtained a reversal of a voluntary manslaughter conviction.

Mr. Ashmore has been in private practice since 1996 and has focused on criminal defense, personal injury, and bankruptcy. He has defended an international mining company against nine hundred and seventy-five individual federal lawsuits; an oil company that discharged one million gallons of diesel fuel into the Reedy River in a class action and related criminal case; and a trucking company in an eighteen million dollar settlement of three Federal wrongful death lawsuits. He has defended corporate defendants and their employees in criminal cases ranging from environmental crimes to obstruction of justice charges. He has also represented hundreds of individuals in State and Federal criminal courts.