Jenna C. Spatz

Partner

Jenna is an experienced attorney, specializing in Family Law matters, including divorce, high conflict custody and visitation,  high earner support matters, complex property issues,  parentage (paternity) actions, and domestic violence restraining order proceedings.  Jenna is a Certified Family Law Specialist, certified by the California State Bar Board of Legal Specialization. Jenna is also qualified, and has been appointed by several Courts, to serve as Minor’s Counsel to represent children in high conflict custody and visitation matters.

Jenna was the 2018-2019 Co-Chair of the Beverly Hills Bar Association-Family Law Section, and has been named as a “Rising Star” by Southern California Super Lawyers. In 2023, Jenna was awarded the 2022 Outstanding Faculty Award from the National Business Institute, based on the national seminars she teaches to other family law attorneys and paralegals.

Jenna graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of Southern California, and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and Broadcast Communication. Her Juris Doctor degree is from Loyola Law School of Los Angeles, where she served as Chief Production Editor of the Entertainment Law Review.  Jenna served as a judicial extern to a Family Law Judge in the Los Angeles Superior Court for two years, and has extensive research and writing experience in numerous areas of family law, child custody, visitation, and entertainment law.

Jenna completed the Los Angeles Collaborative Family Law Association’s Interdisciplinary Training Program, and is a member of the Executive Board of the Beverly Hills Bar Association, and she has been a frequent lecturer for the Beverly Hills Bar Association Family Law Section. Jenna is a Member of the Los Angeles County Bar Association Family Law Section, the  Association of Certified Family Law Specialists, and the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts.

Memberships

Beverly Hills Bar Association , Family Law Section (Executive Board Member  2018 – Present; Co-chair 2018-2019)

Association of Certified Family Law Specialists

Association of Family & Conciliation Courts

Los Angeles County Bar Association

American Bar Association

California Lawyers Association

Education

Jenna graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of Southern California in 2009, wherein she double majored in Political Science and Broadcast Communication. She graduated law school from Loyola Law School Los Angeles in 2012.