Spero T. Lappas graduated with honors from Allegheny College and received the Juris Doctor degree cum laude from the Dickinson School of Law (now, the Dickinson School of Law of the Pennsylvania State University). While at Allegheny College, he was twice named an Alden Scholar, he received Departmental Honors at graduation, and he received the Muhlfinger Prize for his independent research. At the Dickinson School of Law, he was named to the Editorial Board of the Dickinson Law Review and was a member and faculty advisor to the National Trial Moot Court Team. He won two American Jurisprudence Awards, and published two items in the Dickinson Law Review. He was later named to the Dickinson's Woolsack Society.

Attorney Lappas is licensed to practice before all Pennsylvania state courts, the Supreme Court of the United States, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, and the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania. He has served as lead counsel in hundreds of major civil, criminal, and civil rights actions.

His career achievements have been noted in many publications about legal professionals. He was among the nation's youngest attorneys to be named in the first edition of The Best Lawyers in America. He has been named in Who's Who in American Law, Who's Who in Finance and Industry, Who's Who in America, and America's Leading Lawyers and he is recognized in The Bar Register of Pre- Eminent Lawyers.

Attorney Lappas has taught Trial Methods and Pretrial Practice as an Adjunct Professor at the Widener University School of Law and is the author of the article "Thermal Imaging and the Fourth Amendment" which appeared in The Champion, the journal of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.

He is a member of American Mensa, the national "High IQ" society, the Chairman of the Harrisburg Division of the United States Fencing Association, and a locally and nationally competitive three weapon fencer.