About Ashley

Ashley DeGennaro is currently a Law Clerk at MCLC while attending Albany Law School and will continue her career with the firm as an Associate Attorney upon graduation and admittance to the New York State Bar.

Ashley supports the firm in many capacities, including conducting and analysis of legal research, preparing memorandums and briefs regarding research, reviewing deposition and trial transcripts, performing jury verdict research, and assisting and shadowing attorneys with respect to litigation and transactional matters.

Prior to joining MCLC, Ashley was a Judicial Intern to the Honorable Mae A. D’Agostino, United States District Court for the Northern District of New York.  

While an undergraduate at Haverford College, Ashley was published in the Nucleic Acids Research Journal and AIChE Journal on gene clusters and polyketide synthase protein research. Additionally, she was a Division III NCAA student athlete and was named Centennial Conference Scholar Athlete of the Year, having the highest cumulative GPA among softball players in the Centennial Conference.  

Education

• Albany Law School of Union University, anticipated Juris Doctor (May 2024); bar admittance (Jan 2025)
• B.S., Haverford College, Biochemistry concentration, cum laude (2020)

Recognition

• George Pierce Award – awarded to students with excellence in organic chemistry (2019)
• Velay Scholar – awarded to young women pursuing research experience (2018)

Publications

• Kautsar et al. (2020). MIBiG 2.0: a repository for biosynthetic gene clusters of known function. Nucleic acids research, 48(D1), D454-D458.
• Rivas et al. (2018). The Effect of Divalent Cations of the Thermostability of Type II Polyketide Synthase Acyl Carrier Proteins. AIChE J, 64, 4308-4318.
• Associate Editor, Albany Law Journal Vol. 87