About Kelsey Fleener
Kelsey Fleener grew up in southwest Wyoming and was a state champion golfer who went on to play Division I golf at the University of Wyoming and Weber State University, earning multiple Academic All-American honors. She graduated from the University of Wyoming College of Law in 2016. Drawing on the values of service and teamwork she developed through collegiate athletics, she served as an officer in the United States Army Judge Advocate General's Corps, where she prosecuted some of the Army's toughest cases and was one of the Army's first Special Victim Trial Counsel, focusing on prosecuting cases involving victims of crime.
After leaving the Army, she litigated oil and gas royalty disputes for the Department of the Interior. She is completing a graduate law degree in Energy and Natural Resources at the University of Oklahoma and teaches Real Estate Law at the University of Wyoming. She serves on the executive board of the Wyoming State Golf Association and mentors young athletes as coach of the Wyoming Girls' Junior America's Cup golf team.
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.