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Frederick S. Spencer, PA. Attorney at Law

Frederick Spencer | Frederick S. Spencer, PA. Attorney at Law

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Firm Summary

The history of the Spencer Law Firm founded in 1975 by Frederick S. “Rick” Spencer, Attorney at Law, is brief yet interesting. Certainly the beginnings of the firm varies in comparison to other law firms.

The firm actually began in early 1975 when Rick Spencer traveled from Fayetteville, Arkansas upon his graduation from the University of Arkansas School of Law, Fayetteville, Arkansas, where he earned his juries doctorate in law. Rick Spencer was born into a legal family. His father, J. V. Spencer, Jr., was a very successful trial lawyer in the south Arkansas town of El Dorado, Arkansas, having been picked for many years by the then state newspaper, The Arkansas Gazette, as one of the 10 best lawyers in the State of Arkansas. J. V. Spencer, Jr. was born of J. V. Spencer, Sr. who was also a very prominent and successful trial lawyer in south Arkansas. Rick Spencer’s grandfather began the first Arkansas Spencer Law Firm in the town of Strong, Arkansas at the turn of the century, after being raised in the town of Spencer, Louisiana. The town was so named after Mr. Spencer’s forefathers who homesteaded much of what would later be called Spencer, Louisiana in the early 1800’s.

After the Strong, Arkansas tornado in 1916 which totally devastated the town, J. V. Spencer, Sr. moved with his family to the then smaller town of El Dorado, Arkansas, right about the time that the oil boom in south Arkansas began in the early twenties. Rick Spencer’s father was born in 1920.

After graduating from law school in the early sixties, Rick Spencer’s older brother, Jim Spencer, went into the family law firm of Spencer & Spencer in El Dorado, Arkansas, and was a member and later partner of this firm with his father and grandfather. But the younger son, Rick Spencer, rather than becoming a member of the long line of Spencers associated in law firms in south Arkansas and northern Louisiana, was enchanted with north central Arkansas. He felt that he could have more versatility and challenge by beginning a firm on his own after graduation from Law School. When he graduated in 1975, Rick Spencer started the Spencer Law Firm in Mountain Home, Arkansas, a solo law practice.

He has served as President of the National Organization of Social Security Claimant’s Representatives [i.e. NOSSCR]. He founded and was a Past President of the Arkansas Injured Worker’s Association Inc. which later became the Administrative Law Division of the Arkansas Trial Lawyer’s Association. And for 23 years, he has served as the elected Representative for North Arkansas on the Board of Governors of the Arkansas Trial Lawyer’s Association. He has also been elected to represent the north central Arkansas area on the Arkansas Bar Association’s House of Delegates.

Although Mr. Spencer is a general practitioner, the emphasis of the Spencer Law Firm, which includes an excellent well-trained staff of paralegals, secretaries and investigators, is to help the injured, disabled and those wrongfully injured or killed as a result of negligence or defective products or processes. Mr. Spencer has been very successful in his practice since the firm was established in 1975. But you are invited to read the articles written about him published in the Arkansas Trial Lawyer’s Association’s magazine, The Docket, as well as read just a few of the articles he has published and make up your own mind independently of what others say. Most importantly, you are invited to read just a few of the Arkansas Supreme Court, Arkansas Court of Appeals, United States District Court and United States 8th Circuit Court of Appeals decisions, where because of his stubborn refusal to allow what he perceived as an injustice, he has successfully represented his clients on appeal.

Message from Rick

I am a solo practitioner and have been since 1975, being the founder and owner of Frederick S. Spencer, P.A. d/ba Spencer Law Firm. Although my law firm specializes in injured, disabled and victims injured or killed by negligence, I also have a large estate practice and still have a general practice since we live in the small, but beautiful, town of Mountain Home, Arkansas, snuggled between two large lakes and three pristine rivers.

As to my past, I was elected President of the National Organization of Social Security Claimant’s Representatives, elected Governor for North Central Arkansas for 23 years on the Arkansas Trial Lawyer’s Association Board of Governors, founder and President of the Arkansas Injured Worker’s Association, recipient of the highest award of ATLA, The Roxanne Wilson Advocacy Award and received from the Arkansas Bar Association, of which I was elected Representative, The Arkansas Bar Association Legacy Award, and twice recipient of the Arkansas Trial Lawyer’s President’s Award, as well as the Outstanding Service Award by Equal Access to Justice Panel of Legal Aid of Arkansas, as well as the ATLA Champions of Justice Award.

I have had the pleasure of being recognized by my peers as a national speaker and author of many articles with various national and state legal organizations. I’ve been a speaker at the Arkansas Bar Association annual meeting and seminar on many occasions and I’ve been a speaker and author for the National Organization of Social Security Claimant’s Representatives, speaker and author on many occasions at the annual meetings of the Arkansas Trial Lawyers Association, as well as with the American Association of Justice annual meeting and seminar. My subject matter has encompassed legal issues with regard to Social Security, Worker’s Compensation and jury and personal injury trials as well as wrongful death trial practice.

I have a trained staff of over ten employees who are paralegals, investigators, clerks and secretaries – some who have been with the firm for over twenty years – who help in my numerous social security, worker’s compensation, personal injury, wrongful death, spinal injury, rail road and semi-truck collision cases. They also help me in my general practice of law.

My father, and his father before him, were both attorneys in south Arkansas. But I felt that the independence of having my own practice would better suit me and I took my family right out of law school at the University of Arkansas School of Law at Fayetteville, Arkansas, to Mountain Home. My older brother, also an attorney, took over the family law firm.

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