About R. Daniel Fleck
Dan Fleck was born in Ashley, North Dakota, and spent summers farming and ranching before earning his undergraduate degree from the University of Wyoming in 1991 and his J.D. from the University of Wyoming College of Law in 1993. He clerked at The Spence Law Firm during law school and spent both summers in trial with Gerry Spence. After law school, he served two years as Director of Lawyers and Advocates for Wyoming, a non-profit public interest law firm. He joined The Spence Law Firm as a practicing attorney in 1996 and became a partner in 2000, and is a member of the firm's management group.
Dan has represented clients in over 25 states in a broad range of complex cases including oil and gas accidents, trucking and auto accidents, motorcycle accidents, aviation liability, pharmaceutical liability, product liability, civil rights, sexual abuse by authority figures, and medical malpractice matters including hypoxic-ischemic birth injuries, Erb's Palsy, and shoulder dystocia birth trauma. He is also a licensed pilot, an avid motorcyclist, and scuba diver. He graduated from Trial Lawyers College in 2002.
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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