San Francisco Federal Criminal Lawyers.
The Northern District’s flagship - crypto’s biggest collapses, securities fraud from the fund economy, and the tech prosecutions that define the era - tried at the Phillip Burton courthouse.
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.
The record, dated and sourced.
The courthouse.
Where the tech era gets prosecuted.
San Francisco’s federal courthouse tries the era’s defining financial cases: crypto-exchange and token collapses, fund and venture fraud, insider trading from the IPO economy, and the platform-economy prosecutions (antitrust-adjacent, consumer-fraud, data cases) that only this district generates. The FTX-era wave still moves through the calendar, and the U.S. Attorney’s securities-fraud section coordinates parallel SEC proceedings as a matter of routine.
Ninth Circuit law governs from across the plaza, juries are tech-fluent and skeptical in both directions, and the district’s judges include the country’s most closely watched on technology questions. Parallel-proceeding management - criminal, SEC, civil class actions at once - is the local craft.
Federal defense lawyers in San Francisco, where the tech era gets prosecuted.
The flagship of the Northern District.
Crypto’s biggest collapses. Fund and venture fraud. Insider trading from the IPO economy. Platform cases - antitrust-adjacent, consumer-fraud, data - that only this district generates. The FTX-era wave still moves through the Golden Gate Avenue courthouse, and the U.S. Attorney’s securities section coordinates SEC parallel proceedings as a reflex.
What you’re actually up against.
Prosecutors who’ve tried the era’s defining cases. Judges the whole country watches on technology questions. Tech-fluent juries, skeptical in both directions. And the three-front reality of Bay Area cases: criminal, SEC, and civil class actions at once - where anything said anywhere follows you everywhere. Managing the fronts is the local craft. It’s ours too.
Why Spodek Law Group.
We’re not your average federal defense firm - we get it. Parallel-proceeding defense built against Manhattan’s regulators, the founder-fraud argument Netflix made famous, and crypto practice that reads chain analysis natively. An hour from our Los Angeles office, local counsel where required.
The clock is already running.
An exchange freeze. An SEC letter. A board’s special committee. San Francisco cases run three fronts - the window is before any front hears your voice unprepared. The consultation is free. It’s confidential. It’s answered 24/7 - 212 300 5196. The government has a head start. Stop giving it a bigger one.
Any district is home ground.
Federal procedure is national - the same rules, the same guidelines, the same DOJ playbook in San Francisco as everywhere else. San Francisco is an hour’s flight from our Los Angeles office; we appear across the Northern District’s divisions with local counsel where required. Admission is handled by pro hac vice motion with local counsel where required, the client portal keeps every document and conversation in one place across any distance, and the person standing up in court is the lawyer you hired - not a referral.
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Todd A. Spodek is a second-generation trial lawyer whose defense of Anna Delvey became Netflix's Inventing Anna. He appears on Fox News and CNN as a legal analyst, authored "My Advice to Diddy" in The Spectator, and is quoted by the Associated Press when the biggest federal cases break. The record behind the profile: a complete acquittal in a $26M money-laundering trial, RICO charges carrying a 10-year minimum dismissed, and 6 months on a $12M Ponzi case.
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Who we are, how we work, and why clients nationwide trust us with their future - in under a minute.
Why this firm.
Five decades of federal courtrooms. Whatever the government has charged, this firm has defended it before.
No allegiance to U.S. Attorneys, agents, or agencies. The client is the only constituency.
Every district in the country, one client portal - documents, invoices, counsel, in real time.
We decline more federal matters than we accept - and every accepted case gets the whole bench.
The first 72 hours decide the next 72 weeks.
No interviews, no consents, no explaining, no deleting. The words said in hour zero are the exhibits at trial. Write down what was asked and by whom - then stop.
Privilege attaches, facts get mapped while memory is fresh, documents get preserved the right way, and nobody in your orbit talks to agents unrepresented again.
We contact the government as your counsel: target, subject, or witness gets confirmed, deadlines get calendared, and the defense - not the investigation - sets the tempo.
How your case unfolds.
THE FULL PROCESS →Risk-free, in person or by phone. Ask anything, for as long as it takes. Strategy starts the same day.
Subpoenaed inboxes and a drawn timeline - we engage prosecutors at the target-letter stage, where charging is still a choice.
Suppress the overbroad seizure, contest intended loss, redraw the timeline - and when trial is the advantage, intent gets tried on the whole inbox, not the excerpts.
On the record, on the wire.
Get ahead of the case.
Answered within 24 hours, guaranteed. Some stories are better told out loud -
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