Truck Accident Litigation, Fourth

Ashley N. Baker is the 2024-2025 Chair of the ABA Tort, Trial, and Insurance Practice Section’s Commercial Transportation Litigation Committee. She is a double-barred attorney in Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C. Ashley has been a licensed truck driver for 15 years. She was formerly on the truck driving faculty at Georgia Piedmont Technical College and an over-the-road trainer for a large trucking company. Her combined teaching experience has allowed her to train hundreds of drivers on the rules of the road. She has driven a tractor-trailer through nearly every part of the United States. She is the author of nine authoritative books on the transportation industry, including a series called The Art of Commercial Trucking®. She is also the author of Modeerf’s Transportation Law Dictionary, that in 2023 was acquired by the Executive Office of the President of the United States. In 2022, she was the recipient of the prestigious Connie Award scholarship from the Containerization and Intermodal Institute. She received her Juris Doctor from Southern University Law Center, her master’s degree in International Transportation Management from the State University of New York, and her LL.M. in Trial Advocacy from the Temple University Beasley School of Law. Ashley is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Transportation and Urban Infrastructure Systems at Morgan State University. Ashley is a defense attorney handling truck accident and cargo loading claims, defending clients in both state and federal courts.

D.J. Young, III, dedicates his legal work nearly exclusively to handling wrongful death and catastrophic injury cases for the victims of truck crashes. He is a partner in The Law Firm for Truck Safety LLP, in its Columbus, Ohio, office. The focus of his legal work is on legal strategy; legal research and analysis and writing complaints, dispositive motion briefs, and appellate briefs; and arguing points of law before state and federal trial and appellate courts. He has successfully taken numerous cases through jury verdict as lead trial counsel. He also has had successful appellate experience in federal and state courts, including the Supreme Court of Ohio. He has spoken on trucking law topics before the Oklahoma Association for Justice, North Dakota Association for Justice, and the Ohio Association for Justice. He has served on the board for the Ohio Association for Justice, and he has been published (in 2023) in the American Association for Justice’s Trial Magazine. He has held a Class A Commercial Driver’s License since 2016 and is endorsed to drive CMVs with manual transmissions, air brakes, and double and triple trailers. Much earlier in his career, he was a construction lawyer, real estate development attorney, Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of Texas, railroad attorney in house at Norfolk Southern Railway Company, and a general contractor. He was on the law review at the University of Notre Dame Law School. In his free time, he is a part-time seminary student, and he likes to teach at his church. He is a member of the Gideons International, the American Association for Justice, the Academy of Truck Accident Attorneys (ATAA), the Christian Legal Society, and the American Bar Association.