Calling himself America’s best trial lawyer, he won justice for Karen Silkwood and successfully defended Imelda Marcos. He ...

Spence, who was known for wearing fringe, was best known for winning a multimillion-dollar judgment against a plutonium ...

Gerry Spence, a celebrated "country lawyer" from Wyoming, died at the age of 96 after a long career of winning high-profile ...

One of the most famous trial attorneys of the 20th century and a proud son of Wyoming, Gerry Spence, died overnight Wednesday ...

Trial lawyer Gerry Spence, the defense counsel who won the acquittal of former first lady Imelda Marcos on federal ...

Two-term Fremont County prosecutor, trial lawyer and Laramie native Gerry Spence died Wednesday. He was 96 years old.

Idaho - Gerry Spence, who was Randy Weaver’s lawyer after the Ruby Ridge shootout, has died. A family statement said that he died on August 13 surrounded by family in ...

Gerry Spence: I don't try to be subtle. Not good at it. I try to be a real and caring person. If I expect jurors to be real people who can care, I can't ask them to do what I fail to do.

With Justice for None, by Gerry Spence (Penguin, $9.95). Attired in buckskin jacket, boots and white hat, Wyoming lawyer Gerry Spence is a faintly comical figure-until he enters the courtroom, on b… ...

In 1979, he rose to prominence when he won a case on behalf of nuclear whistleblower Karen Silkwood, whose story was later chronicled in a Meryl Streep film.

CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Gerry Spence, the fringe jacket-wearing trial lawyer from Wyoming known for a string of major court wins ...