The Spence Law Firm
About the firm
The Spence Law Firm is a Wyoming-based personal injury firm that represents injured individuals and families nationwide, handling cases involving catastrophic injury, wrongful death, medical malpractice, product liability, civil rights, and workplace accidents. Founded by legendary trial lawyer Gerry Spence and based in Jackson, Wyoming, the firm has recovered over $1 billion in verdicts and settlements over more than 50 years of practice. The firm operates on a contingency fee basis and takes cases throughout the United States.
Notable results
After a seven-day bench trial in Sublette County, a Wyoming district court awarded APMTG Helium $35,199,276.79 against Denbury Onshore for failing to deliver helium under a long-term supply contract, and the Wyoming Supreme Court upheld the award in December 2020.
A federal jury in Wyoming awarded Amber Lompe $28.2 million after carbon monoxide from a faulty furnace caused permanent brain injury at her Casper apartment, a verdict that stood as one of the largest personal-injury awards in Wyoming history before the Tenth Circuit reduced the punitive component on due-process grounds.
A Black Hawk County jury returned a $13.6 million verdict for Jarvis Lee Boggs, paralyzed when a Waterloo police officer ran a red light at 61 mph without lights or siren and slammed into his car at 12:45 a.m. on New Year's Eve 2008.
A Green River jury returned a $10.165 million verdict for a Rock Springs man whose legs were amputated after Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County and its physician failed to recognize and treat an acute vascular emergency.
A Sweetwater County jury returned a $5.19 million verdict for oilfield worker Blake Horr after a rubber well component, ejected by trapped pressure that Merit Energy's supervisor failed to relieve, shattered bones and severed nerves in his left hand and arm during a 2011 work-over operation in Bairoil, Wyoming.
Robert A. Krause of The Spence Law Firm resolved the first wrongful death bellwether case in the Toyota unintended acceleration MDL on behalf of the families of Paul Van Alfen and Charlene Jones Lloyd, killed in a 2010 Utah crash, with Toyota settling confidentially days before a February 2013 trial date.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
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