About Mark
Mark Spitz built a career that spans the public and private sectors, and he began that path in the classroom of higher education. He earned a B.A. in Government from Harvard University in 1981, completed an M.A. in International Relations at Columbia University in 1984, and graduated from Boston College Law School with a J.D. in 1989. Those years established a foundation in law and public affairs that shaped his later work.
He entered legal practice as an associate at Frost Brown Todd LLP in 1989. In the early 1990s he moved into in-house roles, serving as a corporate lawyer at Standard Textile Co., Inc. by 1992. The next decade brought further in-house experience; he was a senior lawyer at Luxottica Retail by 1997 and later took on executive responsibility as vice president and general counsel at Pomeroy IT Solutions in 2006. In 2008 he joined the U.S. Chamber of Commerce as a senior lawyer, an assignment that exposed him to national business and regulatory issues.
After years inside corporate legal departments, Spitz returned to private practice and consulting. He worked in private practice in 2009 and advised the campaign and office of John Hickenlooper during the governor’s tenure in 2010. He then served as counsel at Allonhill LLC in 2011 and pursued independent consulting on education policy in 2012. Briefly stepping into K–12 education, he taught math in Denver Public Schools in 2013 before establishing his own practice, Spitz Legal Counsel LLC, where he is listed as membership/managing attorney as of 2015.
Spitz’s career touches several areas of law and policy. He has handled corporate legal matters, in-house compliance and governance issues, and policy work related to education. His time at a national business organization and in-house at technology and retail companies gave him exposure to contracts, regulatory matters, and corporate governance. Work on a gubernatorial campaign and as an education consultant added policy and administrative perspectives to his legal background.
He maintains professional affiliations that reflect that mix. He belonged to the Association of Corporate Counsel from 1992 to 2009 and is a member of the Colorado Bar Association and the American Bar Association, each listed as current. He is licensed to practice in Colorado and Ohio. He currently practices at Spitz Legal Counsel LLC, handling corporate, compliance, and education-sector legal matters.
