About Pamela Spaulding

Pamela Spaulding has been an attorney at Meshbesher and Spence for more than 20 years, representing injured individuals and families who have lost a loved one. Her practice covers car and truck accidents, motorcycle accidents, dog bites, product liability, medical malpractice, brain and spine injuries, burns, orthopedic injuries, amputations, wrongful death, and no-fault and underinsured motorist insurance matters. She earned her B.S. summa cum laude from Mankato State University (1997) and her J.D. cum laude from the University of Minnesota (2001). Minnesota Lawyer recognized her in 2004 as one of 15 Up-and-Coming Attorneys in the state. She is a native Minnesotan from Stearns County.

Proven verdicts and settlements at Meshbesher & Spence

These results are credited to Meshbesher & Spence. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.

$12.88 millionVerdictTop 20 in Minnesota · #7

A Dakota County jury awarded Jeffrey Wu and his wife $18.4 million after his 2014 Jeep Grand Cherokee's defective monostable gear shifter caused a rollaway that crushed his left leg and required amputation.

Dakota County District Court, Minnesota · 2026Product LiabilityRead the full story →
$2.35 millionVerdictTop 20 in Minnesota · #18

Thirteen years after Minneapolis florist Robert Nachtsheim was shot and killed in an officially unsolved homicide, a Hennepin County jury found businessman Norman Wartnick civilly liable and awarded his widow $2,350,000 in compensatory and punitive damages, a verdict the Minnesota Court of Appeals affirmed in 1987.

Hennepin County District Court, Minnesota · 1986Wrongful DeathRead the full story →
$2.25 millionSettlementTop 20 in Minnesota · #19

Dakota County paid $2.25 million to settle a wrongful death suit brought by Tory Hart after county child protection workers recommended reuniting his six-year-old son with the mother, who fatally shot the child ten days after a court terminated its jurisdiction.

Dakota County, Minnesota · 2024Wrongful DeathRead the full story →
$750,000Verdict

A Becker County jury awarded $750,000 against WE Fest organizers and their security contractor after finding both negligent for hiring a campground attendant with a prior felony sex-offense conviction who assaulted a female camper in 2006.

Becker County District Court, Minnesota · 2008Premises LiabilityRead the full story →

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Practice areas

Education

University of Minnesota
J.D., 2001
Mankato State University
Undergraduate, 1997

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Minnesota, admitted 2001

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$29.07 million · $29 Million Verdict for Cerebral Palsy After Midwife Failed to Call the OB in a Fetal Heart-Rate Crisis

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.