Spencer Leach

Associate

Fort Lauderdale
T: 954.768.1615
F: 954.252.4656

Spencer Leach focuses his practice on residential mortgage litigation and assists clients with lender liability, contested foreclosures, and real estate litigation matters.

Professional Biography

Mr. Leach helps advise and defend mortgage lenders and servicers on a wide variety of issues, including lender liability, contested foreclosures and real estate litigation.

Before joining Baker Donelson, Mr. Leach clerked for two years for the Honorable B. Waugh Crigler, Federal Magistrate Judge of the Western District of Virginia.

Awarded final summary judgment in state court for a breach of contract claim, where the court ruled that the plaintiff's breach of contract was not supported by the undisputed evidence and specific contract language at issue.
Awarded final summary judgment in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida in favor of a defendant-client, where the court agreed that the plaintiff's breach of contract claim was not supported by the undisputed evidence and specific contract language at issue.
Secured a dismissal with prejudice of a lawsuit filed by a water mitigation vendor, with the court finding that the subject insurance policy's anti-assignment provision was enforceable, which also led to an award of entitlement to attorney's fees to our client.

Named a Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch^® in America for Commercial Litigation (2021 – 2023)

Co-author – "Hurricane Ian: An Anticipated Flood and Windstorm of Litigation Over Flood and Windstorm" (December 2022)
Co-author – "Florida Insurance Suit Trends To Look Out For After Hurricane Ian," Law360 (November 2022)
Co-author – "Assignability of Commercial Contracts (FL)," Thomson Reuters Practical Law (February 2022)
Co-author – "Assignability of Commercial Contracts (FL)," by Jennifer G. Cooper, David Levin, and Spencer Leach, Thomson Reuters Practical Law (March 2018)

Unfair and Deceptive Practices: The Legal Wild Card (October 2020)

Baker Donelson Attorneys Earn Recognition in The Best Lawyers in America® 2023 Listing (August 18, 2022)
Baker Donelson Attorneys Earn Recognition in The Best Lawyers in America® 2022 Listing (August 19, 2021)
Baker Donelson Top-Listed in the Nation in Six Practice Areas in The Best Lawyers in America^® 2021 Listing (August 20, 2020)

Unfair and Deceptive Practices: The Legal Wild Card (October 22, 2020)

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Education

University of Virginia School of Law, J.D., 2011
- Virginia Environmental Law Journal, Editorial Board and Articles Review Board
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, B.A. Environmental Studies, Highest Distinction, 2008
- Phi Beta Kappa

Admissions

Florida, 2014
Virginia, 2011

Featured Media

Hurricane Ian: An Anticipated Flood and Windstorm of Litigation Over Flood and Windstorm

Publication / December 6, 2022

Baker Donelson Attorneys Earn Recognition in The Best Lawyers in America® 2023 Listing

Press Release / August 18, 2022

Assignability of Commercial Contracts (FL)

Publication / February 3, 2022

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