Terry R. Spencer

This man is a very dishonest man. He will take your case, but, within the fine print is an interest rate of around 24% and compounds daily. How can this be legal to charge interest upon interest? Needless to say when I tried to sell my home there was a lien on my property for $9,000. I had no notifi...cation of this lien and was never notified that it was filed. How does a bill for $1000 end up being $9,000? Which I had to pay him directly so I could sell my home. How does an attorney do such things to innocent people? In my opinion this man should not be allowed to practice law.

I retained Terry Oct. 25, 2013 with $2,500 and paid him another $2,500 Jan. 2, 2014. Terry severely underrepresented me for over a year. I'm told by another attorney that his objection to my temporary order is badly written. He didn't even attempt to have my exorbitant CS and alimony judgment--$8,000... per month--modified after we discussed it and I delivered one or more paystubs from my new employer to him. Once, in order to obtain clarification on something, when I used the mobile number he'd told me to use any time, he yelled at me, telling me, "GOOGLE IT, STEVE!" He was almost always either condescending, rude, interruptive, and even contemptuous, or any combination of the aforementioned. He did almost nothing through all of 2014 then jumped into reactive mode over a year after I retained him and only when the Petitioner had to act or her case would be thrown out. When I obtained sufficient funds in Spring of 2015, I retained someone else who informed Terry his "services" would no longer be needed. Then, over a negative yelp.com review, he threatened to sue me for defamation. I chose to defend my legally recognized, Constitutionally protected, statutorily enforceable liberty to inform others of my negative experiences with Terry, so he filed suit for $100k for for "defamation", "intentional infliction of emotional distress", "intentional interference of economic relations”, “declaratory relief”, and “breach of contract”. He attached our correspondence from the divorce case to the defamation suit and the judge was forced by his recklessness to have to seal it. In an attempt to manufacture embarrassing situations for me, he subpoenaed the Petitioner (yes, my soon-to-be ex-wife), my new divorce attorney, and, strangely, not someone in Human Resources, but someone in Finance from my employer to whom I'd made a negative comment about him. He continued to bill me throughout his suit against me, but BEGAN TO BILL ME FOR LINE ITEMS ASSOCIATED WITH SUING ME! And his demands for an out of court settlement bordered on the insane. So as not to leave any doubt about the meritlessness of his claims, the judge dismissed his defamation suit with prejudice. If you insist on retaining him, I strongly suggest you keep yourself in the right, take copious notes, get everything in writing, write memoranda of understanding to him, and keep funds on hand to file suit against him and/or defend yourself against his ridiculous attacks and preserve your First Amendment protected freedom of speech. He's not helpful. He's not honest. He's not ethical.

Terry helped me with my divorce this year and I am so glad I had him in my corner. I was able to reach him whenever I needed his advice, even interrupting him during his son's graduation. Terry is a no nonsense kind of guy. He would ask me questions, I would give him answers and he would direct me ...as how to proceed, explaining the law in layman's terms along the way. Knowing he knows the law so thoroughly and completely left me never second guessing him. Terry is very aggressive but polite, incredibly intelligent and a well seasoned lawyer and as a result I was able to get the Sole Custody that I wanted and the alimony which has brought me great peace of mind. If you're in the Salt Lake Valley, or even if you're not, Terry is thee lawyer to have. Frankly, I would be scared going against him in the courtroom. Hahaha!!! He's really a nice guy, just don't be on the other side of the courtroom with him. I'm so happy and RELIEVED that I chose Terry R Spencer as my lawyer. Thanks, Terry! Best wishes!!!