Alexander Spater was born in 1943 in New York, attended Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin, receiving his B.A degree in 1965,
and attended the University of California at Berkeley between 1965 and 1967, receiving an M.A. degree in Asian Studies.
Mr. Spater also
served in the Peace Corp. in Nepal between 1967 and 1969, working as a community development specialist.
Between 1969 and 1970, he
worked in a low income housing program in Corinth, Mississippi.
He attended Ohio State University Law School between 1970 and 1973,
receiving the J.D. degree in 1973.
After law school, Mr. Spater was legal counsel for the Housing Opportunity Center of Metropolitan
Columbus for one year.
He was a partner in Spater, Gittes, Schulte & Kolman and predecessor law firms between 1974 and 2001, before he
recently started his own firm.
Mr. Spater has throughout his career worked with other attorneys in Ohio and around the country to litigate
civil rights cases and will continue to do so He has also lectured around the country on various civil rights issues and has testified before the
United States Civil Rights Commission.
He is licensed to practice law in all state courts in Ohio, the United States District Courts for the Southern and
Northern Districts of Ohio, the United States Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the United States Supreme Court.
Raphael Davis-Williams joined Spater Law in August of 2010. The Houston, Texas native is a 2010 graduate of The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law and is a sitting member of the Board of Directors for the American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio.
Mr. Davis-Williams' legal experience includes externships for the Honorable Judge Algenon L. Marbley, United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, and for the Majority Counsel for the Ohio House of Representatives, 128th General Assembly. Mr. Davis-Williams also clerked in the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Ohio, Criminal Division and was a Summer Associate in the Columbus office of Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan, & Aronoff LLP.
Mr. Davis Williams earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Radio /Television/Film from Sam Houston State University and had a 14-year career as a television news reporter in Texas, Alabama, and Florida prior to becoming an attorney. He has also completed all of the required classroom course work and is currently conducting research for his final thesis to receive a Master of Liberal Arts degree with a concentration in Government from Harvard University.
Mr. Davis-Williams is licensed to practice in the State of Ohio.
