Spencer Trial Attorneys, P.C.

Focus and practice areas

The firm is family-owned and based in El Paso, Texas. Ashley Spencer and Jake Spencer, a husband-and-wife team, founded it and lead the work. It handles estate planning, probate, personal injury, and criminal defense, and it lists elder law among its services.

The name points to trial work, and the firm pairs that with planning work that rarely reaches a courtroom. A client can set up a will and, in a later and separate matter, call the same office for a defense case. In my opinion that mix suits families who want one firm to know their history across more than one kind of legal need.

Who leads the firm

Spencer Trial Attorneys, P.C. splits its work along the two founders' practice areas. Ashley Spencer takes probate and estate planning. Jake Spencer takes criminal defense and personal injury. The site states the two attorneys have 14 years of combined experience.

Ashley Spencer is a native El Pasoan. She earned her J.D. summa cum laude and has worked in both the medical and legal fields. Her medical background helps in matters that turn on health records or a person's capacity to make decisions.

Jake Spencer is also a native El Pasoan and comes from a family of lawyers. While earning his J.D., he was selected to represent South Texas in national advocacy tournaments. That courtroom training matches the trial focus in the firm's name.

Estate planning and probate work

Estate planning at the firm covers wills, trusts, powers of attorney, guardianship, special needs planning, and long-term care planning. Each document does a distinct job. A will names an executor and sets out who receives property. A trust holds assets during life and can pass them on outside probate. A power of attorney lets a named person handle financial or medical decisions when the signer cannot.

Guardianship is a court appointment for an adult or child who can no longer manage their own affairs. Special needs planning aims to protect a beneficiary's eligibility for public benefits. The elder law label the firm uses connects to this work, since long-term care and guardianship questions often come up as clients age.

Probate splits into two parts here: estate administration and probate litigation. Administration moves an estate through the county court, and the steps include proving the will, paying valid debts, and passing property to the heirs. Litigation begins when a family member contests a will or questions how an estate is being managed. As a reviewer, I read the pairing of planning and probate as a sign the firm can follow a matter past the signing of documents and into the court process that can come after a death.

Personal injury and criminal defense

On the personal injury side, the firm handles auto, motorcycle, truck, bus, and industrial accidents, along with wrongful death claims. An injury claim usually starts with medical records and an accident report. The insurer for the at-fault side reviews the file and responds with an offer or a denial. Negotiation follows, and the firm files suit when the two sides cannot agree. Industrial accidents can raise workplace safety questions on top of the injury claim itself.

Wrongful death claims work a little differently, since surviving family members bring them after a fatal accident. The vehicles the firm lists, including motorcycles, buses, and trucks, point to the crash types common on West Texas highways and freight routes.

Criminal defense work includes DUI and DWI cases. A DWI matter in Texas runs on two tracks at once: the criminal charge in court and a separate license question with the state. The license track carries its own early deadline after an arrest, so timing matters from the first days of a case. Jake Spencer handles both the injury and the defense work, so a client facing a crash and a related charge can keep both matters in one place.

Offices and service area

The firm runs from two offices, one in El Paso, Texas, and one in Las Cruces, New Mexico. That border location puts it within reach of clients on either side of the state line, and it lets the firm take work in two states from a single practice.

Its stated service area covers El Paso, Midland, Odessa, Presidio, and other parts of West Texas. Those places sit across a wide stretch of desert and highway, so a firm that plans to serve all of them needs a way to reach clients who live hours apart.

Language access and consultations

The firm has Spanish-speaking staff, which matters in a border region where many clients handle legal business in Spanish. It also offers virtual consultations, so a first meeting can happen by video call. Virtual meetings also help clients in Midland or Odessa who would otherwise drive several hours to El Paso.

The site does not list a founding year, so the 14 years of combined experience the two attorneys cite is the clearest measure it gives of time in practice. For a family-owned firm run by its two named founders, that figure and the two bios are the main markers a prospective client has to weigh.

Trust disputes as a separate category

The directory record assigns estate-and-trust litigation its own practice category. That classification expressly includes trust disputes, an area that is easy to overlook when reading the firm's broader description. It also keeps contested trust matters distinct from the creation of trusts and wills. As a reviewer, I find that separation useful because it shows how the directory organizes the firm's planning work and its dispute work.

The record does not describe particular trust cases, so the category should be read at face value. It establishes that the listing covers litigation involving estates and trusts. It does not define the kinds of claims the firm accepts or assign this work to a named attorney. Prospective clients with a trust dispute would need to confirm that their particular issue falls within the firm's work.

Business name and contact details

The public-facing name is Spencer Trial Attorneys, while the legal-name field identifies the practice as Spencer Trial Attorneys, P.C. The website follows the shorter version through the address spencertrialattorneys.com. This consistency makes it easier to connect the directory entry with the firm's online presence, while the full corporate name remains available for readers who need the formal identification.

The record supplies the telephone number twice: 915-233-6955 and (915) 233-6955. These are two formats for the same number. A reader comparing contact fields should treat them as a single telephone line rather than separate contacts.

Exact office locations

The El Paso street address is 1009 Montana Ave. The Las Cruces location is 141 Roadrunner Pkwy. The street addresses add practical detail to the broader two-city office description and help clients select the correct destination for an in-person appointment.

The listing identifies El Paso as the firm's home city and gives the Texas office address in the main address field. The Las Cruces address appears in the fuller practice record. Someone relying only on the main listing field would see the Montana Avenue office, while the complete record supplies the Roadrunner Parkway location as another option.