When the caption reads United States v. You.

Netflix told the story. The defense was ours.

When Shonda Rhimes built Inventing Anna, the defense at its center was Todd Spodek’s - argued for the so-called fake heiress in a Manhattan courtroom long before Arian Moayed of Succession played him on screen. What 320 million hours of viewers watched is the method every client of this firm gets, in every federal district.

Most defense lawyers meet federal court a few times in a career. This firm lives there. The differences start at the caption and run through everything underneath it: DOJ prosecutors instead of a district attorney, agents with years invested before you hear a word, discovery on the government’s schedule, and sentencing arithmetic where offense levels and mandatory minimums do the judging before the judge does. Strategy inside that system is not improvised - it is engineered, input by input, from the day we take the file.

The engineer is Todd Spodek - second-generation counsel, thousands of matters deep, and the lawyer NY Post, Newsweek, Fox 5, Business Insider, and Bloomberg quote when federal cases break. In 2022, Netflix turned his defense of Anna Delvey into Inventing Anna, and the country watched the method up close: take the government’s story apart seam by seam, then hand the jury a better one.

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