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Spence M. Howden

Spence M. Howden

Associate, Austin
512.236.2078
smhowden@jw.com
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Spence M. Howden

Spence M. Howden

Associate, Austin
512.236.2078
smhowden@jw.com
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Practice Areas

  • Real Estate

Biography

Spence Howden is an attorney in the real estate practice of Jackson Walker’s Austin office. Spence represents individuals and businesses in all aspects of real estate acquisition and disposition, development, and leasing. He has substantial experience drafting and negotiating all types of real estate purchase agreements, including option contracts. Spence regularly reviews title and drafts closing documents for real estate acquisitions and dispositions. He has also represented lenders, individual investors, family offices, and other entities in financing and lending transactions involving office and retail properties.

During law school at Washington and Lee, Spence worked at the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of General Counsel, and sat on the board of The Lewis F. Powell, Jr. Distinguished Lecture Series. Prior to law school, he spent a year in Washington, D.C., clerking at a civil litigation firm. As an undergraduate student at The University of Texas, he interned at Frost Bank, the Railroad Commission of Texas, and the Office of the Texas Governor.

Education

B.B.A., The University of Texas at Austin

J.D., cum laude, Washington and Lee University School of Law

  • Washington and Lee Law Review
  • Kirgis Fellow

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Texas

  • Texas Rising Star, Super Lawyers by Thomson Reuters, 2023-2024

  • “Text Messages are Property: Why You Don’t Own Your Text messages, but It’d Be a Lot Cooler if You Did,” 76 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 1073 (2019)

  • Real Estate Council of Austin, Leadership Development Council, 2024

Jackson Walker Represents D.R. Horton in Acquisition of Riggins Custom Homes

December 19, 2022

Jackson Walker Serves as US Counsel to Grupo Lamosa in Acquisition of Grupo Roca’s Flat Ceramic Division

August 30, 2021

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March 21, 2024
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Jackson Walker Congratulates 2024 Texas Rising Stars

Each year, Super Lawyers recognizes only 5% of Texas attorneys who either are 40 years of age or younger or have been in practice for 10 years or less as “Rising Stars.”

March 23, 2023
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Jackson Walker Congratulates Its 2023 Texas Rising Stars

Jackson Walker is pleased to announce the selection of 63 attorneys to Thomson Reuters’ 2023 “Super Lawyers – Rising Stars” list, which recognizes only 5% of Texas attorneys who either are 40 years of age or younger or have been in practice for 10 years or less.

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Recognition & Accolades

  • Texas Rising Star, Super Lawyers by Thomson Reuters, 2023-2024

Publications & Speeches

  • “Text Messages are Property: Why You Don’t Own Your Text messages, but It’d Be a Lot Cooler if You Did,” 76 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 1073 (2019)

Community Involvement

  • Real Estate Council of Austin, Leadership Development Council, 2024

Practice Areas

  • Real Estate

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