Larissa A. McCalla
Ms. McCalla received her Juris Doctor degree at Arizona State University in 1993. She is a member of Arizona State Bar and the Wyoming State Bar, and is admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the United States District Court for the District of Wyoming. Larissa served as Rules Attorney for the Arizona State Senate and as Assistant Editor and Staff Attorney for the Arizona Legislative Council before starting as an associate at the Spence Law Firm in 2000.
Emily R. Rankin
Ms. Rankin graduated from the University of Wyoming College of Law in 2000. She then moved to Cheyenne, Wyoming, where she clerked for Justice Marilyn S. Kite at the Wyoming Supreme Court. Emily is admitted to practice law in the State courts of Wyoming and Colorado, and the Federal Courts of Wyoming, Colorado and Western Oklahoma.In 2002, she became an associate with The Spence Law Firm in Jackson, Wyoming. Her experience since joining the firm includes cases dealing with the civil rights of penitentiary inmates, wrongful deaths on the job, wrongful death and serious injury due to medical malpractice, and very large and complex toxic exposure cases involving hundreds of clients who have been damaged by radiation and heavy metals.
M. Kristeen Hand
Ms. Hand became an associate attorney with the Spence Law Firm in 2003, and has been involved with products liability (defective light truck tire), premises liability, and trucking accidents since joining the firm.Kristeen is a 2001 honor graduate of the University of Wyoming College of Law, and has served as law clerk to the Honorable Terrence L. O'Brien, Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals (2002-2003) and as law clerk to the Honorable W. Thomas Sullins and David B. Park, Seventh Judicial District Court of Wyoming (2001-2002).
Patricia A. Zielke
Patricia A. Zielke graduated from the University of Utah School of Law. She has been practicing law for ten years, having been admitted in both Utah and Mississippi since 1994. She practiced primarily criminal defense in both states. Pattie has been with The Spence Law Firm for three and one-half years focusing on national complex litigation cases dealing with product liability (medical implants involving senior citizens and middle-aged patients) and toxic torts (radiation and heavy metal contamination that has impacted two generations of residents in two states).
Tyson E. Logan
Tyson E. Logan received his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Wyoming College of Law. He is a member of the Wyoming State Bar, the Wyoming Trial Lawyers Association and the American Trial Lawyers Association. After clerking for The Spence Law Firm during law school, Tyson became an associate in 2005. He is actively involved with products liability, wrongful death and civil rights cases.
