Overview
Spencer Osborne is an associate in Montgomery McCracken’s Litigation Department. He focuses his practice on commercial litigation, class actions, products liability, government liability and civil rights defense, as well as other types of complex litigation. He also has experience litigating emerging tort theories such as wrongful adoption, cyber torts, and digital privacy rights.
Spencer earned his J.D. from Wake Forest University School of Law. While in law school, Spencer was a part of the Trial Bar organization, a Moot Court Board member, and the Executive Online Editor for the Wake Forest Journal of Law and Policy. He was also a member the Appellate Advocacy Clinic, through which he briefed a civil rights case brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and the Fourteenth Amendment on behalf of an incarcerated client. He ultimately argued the case, Henderson v. Harmon, before a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Before beginning at Montgomery McCracken as a Summer Associate in 2023, Spencer was also a Judicial Extern at the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development in Washington, D.C.
Prior to law school, Spencer received his B.A. in International Studies with a minor in Arabic Language from Emory University, where he was also a member of the Men’s Basketball team.
The Record
Credentials
Admitted to Practice
- New Jersey
- Pennsylvania
- United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
Selected Publications
- Co-Author, “Recent Third Circuit Opinion Reinforces That Daubert Requires Courts to Examine the Data Underlying an Expert’s Analysis,” February 2025
- Author, “Out of Sight, Out of Mind: America’s Broken Administrative Judiciary and the Tools to Fix It,” Wake Forest Journal of Law and Policy, January 2024
- Co-Author, “U.S. Supreme Court Increases Employer Burden for Religious Accommodations Under Title VII, in Groff v. DeJoy,” June 2023
Professional Activities
- Member, Pennsylvania Bar Association
- Civil Litigation Section
- Appellate Advocacy Committee
- Member, Animal Legal Defense Fund
Education
Law School
- Wake Forest University School of Law
Undergraduate School
- Emory University
Insights
Shared Thinking
Talk With Spencer
Philadelphia 215-772-7604 sosborne@mmwr.com