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Spencer Leach

Associate

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)

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

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