Spencer Hughes

Spencer Hughes

Counsel

shughes@classlawgroup.com
(510) 250-4840
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Spencer represents consumers against corporations in all stages of litigation. He practices in complex class actions involving consumer protection violations and corporate wrongdoing. Spencer is experienced in state and federal courts in both trial-level and appellate litigation, frequently briefing and arguing novel questions of law across the country.

Before joining Gibbs Law Group, Spencer practiced at a plaintiffs’ class action boutique and one of the largest defense firms in the country. He has represented a U.S. Senator in the Supreme Court, victims of cryptocurrency fraud and Ponzi schemes, university students misled by systemic fraud in prominent college rankings, and more.

Spencer clerked for the Honorable Gerald Bard Tjoflat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. He graduated from Duke University School of Law and Iowa State University. At Duke, Spencer was an editor for the Duke Law Journal. At Iowa State, Spencer was student body president.

admissions
  • California
  • District of Columbia
  • education+
    • J.D., Duke University School of Law, 2017
    • B.A., Iowa State University, 2014

    Litigation Highlights

    Murthy v. Missouri

    Represented United States Senator as amicus curiae to the Supreme Court of the United States, arguing to protect the U.S. intelligence community’s ability to counter foreign malign influence in our elections.

    Bielski v. Coinbase, Inc.

    Represented consumers in district court, appellate, and Supreme Court litigation against cryptocurrency exchange, bringing novel claims under federal statutory protections for financial fraud victims.