A veteran trial lawyer with more than 25 years of experience, Spillis most recently served as managing partner at Fort Lauderdale-based Kelley|Uustal, where he spent the past 11 years handling significant cases involving medical malpractice, personal injury, product liability and commercial litigation. Over the course of his career, he has tried more than 40 cases to verdict and earned a reputation as a strategic, skilled advocate for seriously injured clients and their families.
Spillis began his legal career at one of Florida’s top defense firms, where he tried his first jury trial just one year out of law school. He later served as managing partner of the Miami office of a national litigation firm, where he led the office’s construction litigation department in addition to handling high-stakes catastrophic injury cases. In 2014, he shifted his practice to focus fully on plaintiff-side work to fight for the rights of injured individuals.
Spillis earned his law degree from the University of Miami and his undergraduate degree from Texas Christian University. He is a past president of the Miami chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA), a national invitation-only organization of experienced trial lawyers and judges dedicated to preserving the right to a jury trial. He is one of three attorneys at the firm who have served as presidents of local ABOTA chapters, alongside Daniel Harwin and Deborah Gander, underscoring the firm’s depth of seasoned litigators and leaders in the trial bar.
