Mindy J. Spector is an experienced trial attorney who has zealously and successfully represented dozens of Fortune 500 companies during the course of her 22-year career. Clients rely on Ms. Spector’s quick, creative thinking and concrete strategic advice when their business interests are on the line. She has consistently achieved favorable results for her clients. Ms. Spector has been lead counsel in several complex jury trials, examined key witnesses in court and arbitration proceedings, argued and won major appellate arguments and negotiated complicated settlements. She has litigated cases in state and federal courts throughout the country, as well as in Latin America and Europe.
Ms. Spector concentrates her practices in all areas of complex commercial litigation, including product liability, contract and commercial power litigation. She has been involved in the defense of civil RICO litigations and has a substantive expertise in civil RICO, and has coordinated discovery on a nationwide basis in multiple related litigations.
A recent focus of her practice has been defending class actions brought by policyholders against insurance companies on market conduct issues. In the past few years alone, Ms. Spector has been lead counsel for Conseco, Travelers Life and Annuity, First Colony Life and GE Capital Assurance (now Genworth).
Ms. Spector has coordinated the defense for Westinghouse Electric Corporation in the nuclear steam generator litigations pending in several district courts around the country. She has been involved in the defense of commercial nuclear litigation for General Electric Company and Imo Industries. She has also been involved in the defense of antitrust litigation for BMW NA and in the Matsushita v. Zenith antitrust litigation in the US Supreme Court and has represented CBS/Fox Video, Fox Inc., Travelers and GE Capital in a variety of matters.
Ms. Spector also has extensive arbitration and mediation experience. She has been involved in arbitrations before the American Arbitration Association, the International Chamber of Commerce and the American Stock Exchange.
In addition to her active representation of clients, Ms. Spector plays an important role in Weil Gotshal’s leadership. She currently chairs the Professional Relations Committee, the oversight/coordinating committee for associate related matters, including compensation and professional development. Ms. Spector is also a member of the firm’s Nominating Committee, which conducts due diligence on partner candidates and nominates members of the firm’s Management Committee. She has also been a frequent lecturer in training sessions on topics such as arbitration, trial preparation, and discovery techniques.
Prior to joining Weil Gotshal, Ms. Spector was a law clerk to the Honorable Leonard A. Bernikow, US Magistrate in the Southern District of New York.