How we can help
Raquel Spencer Law, APC serves clients throughout California, across four focused practice areas. Each matter is handled with the same preparation, whether it begins in a police station, a courtroom, a family dispute, or a family's estate.
Criminal Defense
Strategic defense at every stage—from an investigation or initial charge through trial, sentencing, and post-conviction relief.
Cases We Take
- Misdemeanor and felony defense
- Assault and battery charges
- Drug possession and other drug offenses
- Firearm and weapons charges
- Theft and property offenses
- Resisting, delaying, or obstructing an officer
- Pre-filing intervention and investigations
- Probation violations
- Post-conviction relief
- Expungements and record clearing
- Post-conviction innocence claims
Civil Litigation & Personal Injury
Strategic representation for individuals and businesses in high-stakes disputes, from early case assessment through negotiation, litigation, and trial.
Cases We Take
- Employment disputes and wrongful termination
- Discrimination and civil-rights claims
- Unlawful-detainer defense
- Housing and landlord disputes
- Personal injury
- Medical malpractice
- Breach-of-contract and commercial disputes
- Real-property and title disputes
- Commercial collections and judgment enforcement
- Business formation and advisory services
Family Law
Focused representation in select family-law matters, with particular experience serving LGBTQ+ individuals and families.
Cases We Take
- Domestic-violence restraining orders
- Child custody, visitation, and post-judgment modifications
- Child support and support modifications
- Uncontested divorce
- Prenuptial and postnuptial agreements
- Domestic-partnership agreements
- Adoption, parentage, assisted reproduction, and surrogacy matters
- Legal name changes and gender-recognition orders
- Pet custody and companion-animal disputes
Trusts, Estates & Probate
Planning that protects families before a crisis, and strategic representation when an estate, trust, or vulnerable relative is at risk.
Cases We Take
- Estate planning
- Probate administration
- Trust administration
- Probate and trust litigation
- Elder abuse
- Guardianships