About M. Kristeen Hand
Kristeen Hand was born and raised in Wyoming and graduated from the University of Wyoming with an undergraduate degree in zoology/physiology. After college, she spent two years in Washington, D.C. as an aide to a United States Senator. She is a 2001 honor graduate of the University of Wyoming College of Law and a graduate of Gerry Spence's Trial Lawyers College. Prior to joining The Spence Law Firm in 2003, she served as a law clerk at the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals and the Natrona County District Court of Wyoming, becoming a partner in 2011. Since joining the firm, Kristeen has successfully represented clients injured or killed while working in industries including drilling rigs, workover rigs, industrial concrete, refineries, gas compressor stations, salt water disposal sites, construction sites, saw mills, pharmaceutical manufacturing plants, and the U.S. government.
She has won multi-million-dollar settlements for clients catastrophically injured or killed in car, semi-truck, and passenger bus collisions. She also prosecutes medical negligence and defamation cases. She settled a federal wrongful death lawsuit against Halliburton after uncovering systematic under-reporting of hours driven by commercial drivers. She currently represents clients in Wyoming and New Mexico.
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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