This team is full of exceptional attorneys dedicated to standing up for consumers and whistleblowers who have been wronged by powerful corporate interests.
Why Tycko & Zavareei LLP?
This team is full of exceptional attorneys dedicated to standing up for consumers and whistleblowers who have been wronged by powerful corporate interests.
Spencer Hughes is an associate in the Oakland office who regularly practices in both trial and appellate courts across the country. He represents consumers in class actions and defamation cases against some of the largest corporations in the world.
Mr. Hughes’s practice covers the full lifespan of a case, from investigating and filing suit to briefing and arguing appeals. He has represented clients in the Supreme Court of the United States, five U.S. Courts of Appeals, and state and federal trial courts in California, Washington, D.C., New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Washington, and Texas.
Before joining Tycko & Zavareei LLP, Mr. Hughes was an associate in the Washington, D.C. office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP, one of the nation’s top defense-side law firms. He gained invaluable experience and learned the strategies used by defendants in consumer protection litigation. Mr. Hughes maintained an active pro bono practice at Kirkland & Ellis and received the firm’s Pro Bono Service Award for four consecutive years.
Mr. Hughes earned his Juris Doctor from Duke University School of Law in 2017, where he served an editor of the Duke Law Journal. He clerked for the Honorable Gerald Bard Tjoflat of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.
Mr. Hughes graduated with honors from Iowa State University in 2014, earning a Bachelor of Arts in rhetoric and political science. He served as the university’s Student Body President for the 2013-14 academic year.
Counsel for Plaintiffs in U.S. Supreme Court, Ninth Circuit, and trial court in lawsuit alleging Coinbase failed to remedy unauthorized transactions and misrepresented its safety and security features (Nos. 22-105, 22-15566, and 21-cv-7478).
Argued Third Circuit appeal on behalf of Plaintiffs in putative class action alleging HP and NVIDIA misled consumers about a laptop’s graphics-processing capabilities (No. 22-2650).
Counsel for Plaintiffs in putative class action alleging Southwest breached its contracts with passengers when it failed to offer refunds during the COVID-19 pandemic (No. 20-cv-1883).
Counsel for Plaintiffs in action alleging defendants defamed five former U.S. House of Representatives employees (No. 2020-ca-652).
Counsel for Amicus National Association of Consumer Advocates in support of Plaintiffs-Appellees (Nos. 22-01744 and 22-01745).
Successfully obtained authorization under Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 to file successive habeas corpus petition for incarcerated client, asserting new evidence of actual innocence (No. 18-1579).
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