Jacob Spencer is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.  He practices in the firm’s Appellate and Constitutional Law, and Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice groups.  Law360 recognized Mr. Spencer as a 2022 Telecommunications “Rising Star.”

Mr. Spencer clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, Judge Diarmuid O’Scannlain of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and Judge Jerry E. Smith of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

Mr. Spencer received his law degree, magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School in 2012, where he was Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy from 2011-2012.  He received his undergraduate degree in classics and religious studies, magna cum laude, from Washington & Lee University in 2006.

Mr. Spencer is admitted to practice law in the Commonwealth of Virginia and the District of Columbia.