History
I serve on the Board of Directors for the Women's Center of Brazoria County, having twice served as its President. I also serve as the President of the Board for the Carvell Foundation, a non-profit corporation dedicated to serving the needs of abandoned and unwanted animals in the Houston area. I also serve on the Brazosport College Law Enforcement Advisory Board.
Specialties
I am a 25 year litigator. I obtained my B.A. in Sociology from the University of Houston in 1987 and my Juris Doctor from South Texas College Of Law in 1990. While at STCL, I served on two national moot court teams, one of which won the 1989 National Starr Invitational Insurance Law Moot Court Competition in Hartford, Connecticut. I loved moot court and found it to be an excellent primer for practicing law. While in law school, I worked for the Federal Trial Division of the Harris County Attorney's Office, defending County officials and the Sheriffs' Department from civil rights claims. Such hands-on work with complicated constitutional law issues was a primer for many different types of litigation I would face as a lawyer. One month after licensing, I was engaged to exclusively handle a constitutional rights portion of a massive lawsuit in federal court regarding chemical companies in Mont Belvieu, Texas, and the claimed diminution of property values resulting from their activities. Afterward, I went to work for The Chaffin Law Firm, a national, boutique litigation firm located in Houston, dividing my time between personal injury, product liability and business tort cases. After working in those areas of law for ten years, I moved to my present firm, The Spencer Law Firm, where I have focused my practice less on personal injury and more on business torts, especially fraud and securities fraud, property disputes as well as consumer law and intellectual property issues.