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About Dennis K. Wallin
Dennis Wallin was born in Tucumcari, New Mexico and raised in Alamogordo and Silver City, New Mexico. He comes from a long line of ranchers, farmers, and contractors throughout the state. He obtained his law degree in 1977 from the University of New Mexico School of Law and was admitted to practice that same year. He began his legal career at a small local firm before setting up his own private practice, and worked in conjunction with The Spence Law Firm for nearly 30 years before becoming a partner, practicing in Albuquerque, New Mexico with the Spence Law Firm NM, LLC. Throughout his career, Dennis has represented injured victims and their families in Federal Courts throughout New Mexico, recovering millions of dollars in personal injury and wrongful death cases.
He co-led counsel in the groundbreaking Sears v. Nissan Motor case, which established precedent for damages awarded to surviving loved ones of wrongfully killed individuals. He has also obtained multiple settlements in truck versus automobile cases ranging from $4.5 million to $9 million, and recently settled a distracted driver wrongful death case for $6 million. Dennis has taken on cases in every New Mexico State District Court, the Federal District of New Mexico, and the Tenth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals.
Proven verdicts and settlements at The Spence Law Firm
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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 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 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 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.
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