Allison Spruill joined Best & Associates in December, 1997. In January, 2000, Ms. Spruill became a shareholder and the firm's name was changed to Best & Spruill, P.C.

Ms. Spruill earned a Bachelor's degree in Accounting from the University of Houston in 1990. Ms. Spruill received her J.D. from South Texas College of Law in December, 1993. Ms. Spruill's law school honors and activities included American Jurisprudence Award for Contracts, Legal Research & Writing, and Moot Court (three semesters); Outstanding Memorandum of Law (legal Research & Writing); W.J. Williamson Legal Writing Award; Varsity Moot Court (National Champion & Best Brief) for Starr Insurance Law Competition (Hartford, CT); Sutherland Cup Invitational Moot Court-National Runner-Up 1993 (Washington, D.C.); Texas State Moot Court Competition (Best Brief). Ms. Spruill was also selected for Advanced Civil Litigation-Varsity Mock Trial and was a member of the Board of Advocates, Order of the Lytae, and Health Law Society.

Prior to entering law school, Ms. Spruill worked as a legal assistant in the Health Law section of Fulbright & Jaworski, L.L.P. While attending law school, Ms. Spruill clerked for the Houston firms of Friend & Associates, L.L.P. and Dunn, Kacal, Pappas and Law, with a focus on medical malpractice, general insurance defense, and products liability. Upon graduation in 1993, Ms. Spruill joined Friend & Associates, where she remained until joining Best & Associates in 1997.

Ms. Spruill's practice experience includes Medical Malpractice and Employment litigation focusing on defense of physicians, nurses, hospitals, assisted living/personal care facilities, nursing homes, dialysis clinics, home health agencies and other health care providers. In addition to general malpractice litigation, Ms. Spruill has an extensive state and federal regulatory practice, having represented various health care practitioners before their respective licensure boards. Ms. Spruill's regulatory practice also includes representation of health care providers in Attorney General lawsuits seeking civil monetary penalties for licensing violations, as well as termination of Medicare/Medicaid provider agreements, informal dispute resolution proceedings with the Texas Department of Human Services and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, administrative penalty proceedings involving various state and federal regulatory agencies, and license revocation proceedings. Ms. Spruill has also defended health care providers in non-subscriber employee injury cases, as well as wrongful termination proceedings before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. In addition to trial work, Ms. Spruill has represented many health care facilities in appellate matters before intermediate appellate courts, as well as the Texas Supreme Court. Ms. Spruill has taught Nursing Jurisprudence courses and has lectured for various nursing home "trade associations" across the state. Ms. Spruill has also helped develop and implement Quality Assurance/Risk Management Programs in various nursing homes and other health care facilities throughout Texas.

Ms. Spruill is licensed by the State Bar of Texas, the U.S. District Court for the Southern and Western Districts of Texas, the U.S. Tax Court and is a member of the Texas Young Lawyers Association and Travis County Bar Association. She has also served on the Lawyers of Literacy Committee of the Houston Bar Association. Ms. Spruill co-authored "The Phantom of the Corporate Operation: Criminal Liability", the feature article in the November/December 1992 issue of The Houston Lawyer.