Ashley M. Crooks

  • Partner
  • New York
she / her / hers
  • acrooks@hausfeld.com
  • +1 646 518 9126
  • https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashley-m-crooks/
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OVERVIEW

Ashley is a Partner in Hausfeld’s New York office with a practice focus in cybersecurity and data privacy litigation.

As a member of Hausfeld’s pioneering cybersecurity practice, Ashley is committed to advancing the law on issues surrounding technology, privacy, and data security. Ashley is well-versed in both sides of complex litigation, with experience representing both individual and corporate clients in a variety of high-stakes commercial, mass tort, and data privacy matters. Ashley began her legal career at a large international law firm, where she served on national counsel teams in consolidated mass tort proceedings and multidistrict product liability litigation. Prior to joining Hausfeld, Ashley also worked for a litigation boutique in Brooklyn, NY, specializing in commercial and financial disputes.

Since joining the firm, Ashley has been personally appointed to plaintiffs’ leadership in numerous data privacy and technology-related class actions in state and federal courts across the country. She has extensive experience in nearly every phase of complex litigation, from initial investigations and pleading to discovery management, dispositive motion practice, settlement negotiation, fact and expert witness development, trial, and appeal. She also has significant experience in early assessment and resolution of cases, including group settlement administration.

Ashley earned her J.D. from Georgetown Law in 2015, where she served as a Legal Research and Writing Fellow and Articles Editor for the American Criminal Law Review.

EDUCATION

Georgetown University Law Center, J.D., cum laude, 2015

The University of Texas at Austin, B.A., high honors, 2010

BAR ADMISSIONS

New Jersey

New York

Texas

AFFILIATIONS

American Bar Association, Member (2023 - present)

National Asian Pacific American Bar Association, Member (2023)

New York State Bar Association (2020)

State Bar of Texas (2015)

WHAT OTHERS SAY

National Law Journal

  • Elite Trial Lawyers, Hausfeld wins Privacy/Data Breach category in 2024

EXPERIENCE

Technology & Data Breach

  • In re Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center Data Breach Litigation, Case No. 23-2-24266-1 (Wash.) (Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee)
  • Bianucci, et al. v. Rite Aid Corporation, Case No. 2:24-cv-03356-HB (E.D. Pa.) (Co-Lead Counsel)
  • In re Hot Topic Data Breach Litigation, Case No. 2:24-cv-09215-MEMF-AS (C.D. Cal.) (Co-Lead Counsel)
  • In re RetailMeNot Browser Extension Litigation, Case No. 1:25-cv-01420-JLR (S.D.N.Y.) (Co-Lead Counsel and Liaison Counsel)
  • Pannozzi v. Deloitte Consulting LLP, Case No. 1:24-cv-00524-MRD-LDA (D. R.I.) (Plaintiffs’ Executive Committee)
  • In re PayPal Honey Browser Extension Litigation, Case No. 24-cv-09470-BLF (N.D. Cal.) (Plaintiffs’ Executive Committee and Co-Chair of Defensive Discovery)
  • In re Columbia University Data Breach Litigation, Case No. 1:25-cv-06232-PKC (S.D.N.Y.) (Co-Lead Counsel)
  • In re Conduent Business Services Data Breach Litigation, Case No. 2:25-cv-16953-MEF-MAH (D. N.J.) (Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee)