About Mark L. Aronowitz
Mark Aronowitz is originally from New York and attended Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, majoring in English with a minor in History. After graduation, he accepted a teaching position with the Teton Science School in Wyoming, where he taught environmental education courses in Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks. In 2005, he graduated with a law degree from Lewis and Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon, before returning to Wyoming. Mark manages the new cases department alongside managing partner Daniel Fleck and serves as Executive Director of Lawyers and Advocates for Wyoming (LAW), a non-profit public interest law firm, having served in that role for more than fourteen years.
In that capacity he provides direct representation to clients in personal injury, wrongful death, motor vehicle accidents, employment disputes, and workers' compensation matters. Mark monitors Wyoming legislation on behalf of trial lawyers and workers' rights, and has helped enact legislation improving workplace safety and workers' compensation benefits. He was instrumental in developing the Spence Association for Employee Rights (SAFER) and helped secure funding and preliminary legislation for Equal Justice Wyoming alongside the Wyoming Access to Justice Commission.
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.