About Emily S. Madden
Emily Madden received her Bachelor of Arts in Business with honors from the University of Dallas, where she also played Division III basketball and softball. She then worked as a policy analyst for Wyoming Governor Matthew H. Mead before attending the University of Wyoming College of Law. During her second year of law school, a committee of Wyoming judges, lawyers, and law professors awarded her the Brimmer Scholarship, which honors Judge Clarence A. Brimmer and rewards students demonstrating excellence in the law.
She graduated second in her class in 2019 and clerked for the Honorable Kelly H. Rankin, Chief Magistrate Judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Wyoming, before joining The Spence Law Firm in 2020. Since joining the firm, Emily has helped recover more than $80 million in verdicts and settlements. She has taught legal writing at the University of Wyoming College of Law and in Casper College's paralegal studies program, contributes regularly to the Wyoming Law Review and state-wide legal publications, and is frequently sought out for her expertise in legal writing.
Proven verdicts and settlements at The Spence Law Firm
These results are credited to The Spence Law Firm. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.
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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