Amy SpencerCounsel

Amy Spencer

About

Ms. Spencer is an experienced trial and appellate attorney with a passion for representing individuals through some of the most difficult and often painful experiences of their lives. She represents survivors of childhood and adult sexual assault, as well as employees who have suffered unlawful harassment, discrimination, retaliation, or wage and hour violations in state and federal courts in Massachusetts, New York, California, New Hampshire, and other federal jurisdictions.

Amy brings both a motor and a heart to every case. She is known for meticulous preparation, strategic precision, and relentless advocacy in and out of the courtroom. At the same time, she approaches survivors of sexual assault, employees confronting discrimination or retaliation, and college athletes seeking fair compensation with deep respect and compassion. She stands with clients who have been denied dignity and fights to secure both accountability and meaningful recovery.

Bringing these qualities to bear, Amy has fought for:

• adult survivors of childhood sexual and physical assault while in state custody at the hands of those duty-bound to protect them;
• students and faculty from secondary school through higher education who have been subjected to sexual assault or harassment, retaliation, and discrimination in both employment and educational settings, including cases involving Title IX, Title VII, and Title VI on the bases of sex, gender, race, national origin, and other protected classes; and
• current and former NCAA athletes, including a men’s basketball player who became a household name after hitting an iconic shot to win an NCAA National Championship, in matters relating to compensation for Name, Image, and Likeness and unpaid labor.

After working in sports journalism and public relations and teaching English and nonviolent conflict resolution to middle school students in California, Ms. Spencer began her legal career serving as a law clerk to Judge Carolyn Dineen King on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and to Judges John E. Sprizzo and Kevin Thomas Duffy in the Southern District of New York. She then joined an AmLaw 100 firm consistently ranked among the top five nationally before relocating to the Greater Boston area to clerk for Judge Steven J. McAuliffe in the District of New Hampshire.

She later became a partner at a well-known regional New England firm, where she defended the constitutional rights of the accused and represented survivors of bullying, discrimination, sexual harassment, and sexual assault in various school settings. She also advocated for the fundamental constitutional rights of due process, the right to counsel, and the right to vote on behalf of individuals and classes of plaintiffs alike.

Just before joining Greenberg Gross, Amy protected the constitutional and statutory rights of individuals accused of serious crimes, conducted state and federal civil and criminal investigations, and was part of a team representing approximately 1,500 survivors of sexual, physical, mental, and emotional abuse while they were children entrusted to the custody and care of the State of New Hampshire in litigation against the State itself.

Throughout her career, Ms. Spencer has recovered millions of dollars for her clients and helped them restore their dignity and self-worth by listening to and believing them, often for the first time in their lives.

Ms. Spencer graduated first in her class from Loyola Law School of Los Angeles, earning her J.D., summa cum laude. She earned her B.A. from Columbia University. She is admitted to practice in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, and California; the U.S. District Courts for the Districts of Massachusetts and New Hampshire, the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York; the Central District of California; the Western District of Texas; and the United States Court of Appeals for the First and Fifth Circuits.