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About Carson Phillips-Spotts

Carson is dedicated to standing up for people who have been catastrophically injured or have suffered injustice in the workplace. At SGB, Carson represents people seriously hurt by the negligence of others or by dangerous or defective products, and workers and groups of workers treated unfairly through discrimination, harassment, or wage theft. Before starting his career as a lawyer, Carson completed a clerkship with a justice on the Maine Supreme Judicial Court. He earned his J.D., cum laude, from the University of Maine, where he was selected as the Charles Harvey Trial Practice Immersion Fellow and awarded the Alumni Association Award by the faculty. Prior to law school, Carson worked as an immigration services paralegal at the Latin American Association, helping low-income individuals and families navigate the immigration process.

Proven verdicts and settlements

$17.3 millionVerdict

A federal jury found that GEO Group violated Washington State minimum wage law by paying immigration detainees $1 per day to cook, clean, and maintain its Tacoma detention facility, awarding more than $17 million in back wages to a class of roughly 10,000 people.

U.S. District Court, Western District of Washington (Tacoma) · 2021Workplace InjuryRead the full story →
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Practice areas

Education

University of Maine School of Law
J.D., cum laude
Colby College
Undergraduate

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