About Elizabeth A. Richards
Elizabeth (Beth) Richards grew up in several different states across the Midwest before earning her Bachelor's Degree in English from the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. She moved to the Tetons to explore the mountains, then spent a year in northern Minnesota taking flying lessons and running dog sleds, before returning to Jackson Hole to attend law school at the University of Wyoming College of Law, where she is an invited member of the Order of the Coif. After law school, Beth clerked for the Idaho Supreme Court for one year and then for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit for one year, before working at a small nonprofit environmental law firm in Boise.
She ultimately moved back to Jackson and joined The Spence Law Firm as an associate. Beth is especially skilled at detailed legal research and thorough case preparation, with a demonstrated ability to quickly master new technical subjects including crane engineering, airbag components, copyright law, and removal statutes. She is highly regarded as an exceptional legal writer.
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.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
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