Spencer Lucas

Spencer Lucas is an attorney at Panish Shea & Boyle. He currently focuses his practice on cases involving catastrophic personal injury, wrongful death, and products liability.

Mr. Lucas has successfully recovered over $100,000,000 for his clients in jury trials and settlements. Spencer has received several record-breaking verdicts in counties across California. In September 2011, Mr. Lucas was trial counsel in Alameda County where the defendant was forced to pay $10,500,000 to an injured woman who was struck by a city bus. In May 2011, Spencer was trial counsel in the matter of Curiel v. SSA Marine in which a total judgment of $14.6 million was awarded and fully recovered for a man injured after an intoxicated crane operator dropped a 25,000 lb. container onto the plaintiff’s truck. In January 2011, Spencer was trial counsel with Adam Shea in a complex tire failure case in which the Plaintiffs were awarded 14.5 million after a two month jury trial in San Diego. The case has now settled in its entirety and the Plaintiffs total recovery was nearly $20 million.

In October 2010, Spencer Lucas was lead trial counsel in the matter of Haskell v. Farmers in which he won an award of $ 8,652,580 for his client. The settlement offer in this case prior to the award was $300,000. Spencer Lucas was recently trial counsel with Brian Panish in Nelsen v. Hillyard Inc. in which they recovered over $21,000,000 for an Iraq war veteran who suffered a brain injury after being rear-ended by a commercial vehicle at high speed. This verdict is believed to be the largest automobile crash verdict in San Bernardino County history.

In 2008, Mr. Lucas was trial counsel alongside Brian Panish in Tilton v. Southern California Gas Company in which they successfully received a jury verdict in excess of $15 million dollars in compensatory damages for a teenager who sustained a closed head injury after his vehicle was struck by a Southern California Gas Company utility truck.

In August of 2007, Mr. Lucas was trial counsel with Mr. Panish in Avila v. Dresick Farms. In this 20 day jury trial in El Centro California, the jury returned a $5.6 million dollar verdict, which is considered to be the largest personal injury jury verdict in the history of Imperial County.

Spencer Lucas graduated from the University of Washington with a degree in Business Administration. During his undergraduate work, he completed an International Business program with honors from the University of Sevilla in 1999. Mr. Lucas graduated from Pepperdine University School of Law in 2004, where he was the co-founder of the Pepperdine International Human Rights Program. While at Pepperdine, Mr. Lucas studied International Law in London where he worked for a prestigious American law firm in the pharmaceutical litigation department.

Mr. Lucas speaks fluent Spanish and handles many of the firm’s Spanish-speaking clients. Spencer has lived in Havana, Cuba, and Mexico, where he spent his summers in college building homes for the homeless in Ciudad Juarez. Spencer is frequently asked to give legal commentary on national Spanish television and radio programs.

Mr. Lucas became a member of the State Bar of California in November of 2004 and the District of Columbia Bar in 2008. He is an active member of the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles, Consumer Attorneys of California, and Los Angeles County Bar Association. Spencer is annually recognized as a “Super Lawyer Rising Star” and is a finalist nominee for the Consumer Attorneys of California Trial Lawyer of the Year.

Verdicts and Settlements

$22.8 Million – Barber v. Mossy Ford – Panish Shea & Boyle recovers 22.8 million after obtaining a record-breaking 14.5 wrongful death verdict in San Diego.
$21 Million – Nelsen v. Hillyard, Inc., et al.
$15 Million – Tilton v. Southern California Gas & Electric
$14 Million – Curiel v. SSA Marine
$5.6 Million – Gonzalez v. Dresick Farms
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