About Spencer Ross
Spencer Ross Lucas is a trial lawyer and partner at Panish | Shea | Ravipudi LLP, a law firm specializing in complex catastrophic personal injury, products liability, wrongful death, and sexual abuse cases. Admitted to the California State Bar in 2004, Mr. Lucas holds bar number 232498 and maintains an active license. He practices primarily in California, with offices located at 11111 Santa Monica Blvd, Suite 700, Los Angeles, CA 90025, and 5160 Birch Street, Suite 210, Newport Beach, CA 92660.
His practice encompasses all stages of litigation, including hearings, appeals, negotiations, and trials, with a focus on personal injury and products liability cases. Mr. Lucas has been recognized among the Top 100 Southern California Super Lawyers in 2022 and has received numerous awards for his work in the courtroom, including nominations for Consumer Attorney of the Year by the Consumer Attorneys of California and Trial Lawyer of the Year by the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles. He is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA) with an elevated rank of Associate due to the number of lengthy trials to verdict he has completed and is annually recognized as a Best Lawyer in America.
Mr. Lucas has obtained numerous eight-figure verdicts and settlements in cases throughout California, including a $48.5 million settlement for a 26-year-old man who suffered a severe traumatic brain injury and a $30 million settlement for a 33-year-old man with a severe traumatic brain injury. Fluent in Spanish, he works with many of the firm's Spanish-speaking clients and is frequently asked to give legal commentary on national Spanish television and radio programs. He has lived in Havana, Cuba, and throughout Mexico, where he spent his summers in college building homes for the homeless in Ciudad Juarez.
Mr. Lucas is a member of the State Bar of California, the District of Columbia Bar, and the Washington State Bar Association. He is an active member of the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles, Consumer Attorneys of California, and the Los Angeles County Bar Association, and regularly volunteers his time providing pro bono legal services to foster children and children facing immigration deportation proceedings.
