San Jose Federal Criminal Lawyers.
Silicon Valley’s courthouse - trade-secret theft, founder-fraud trials the world watches, and export-control cases from the chip economy - in the division that tried Theranos.
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.
The founder-fraud courtroom.
San Jose’s federal courthouse tried Elizabeth Holmes - the defining founder-fraud case of the era - and its docket keeps the genre: startup prosecutions where the line between vision and deception is the whole trial, this firm’s home argument since the Sorokin case. Around it: trade-secret theft (employee-departure cases between the Valley’s giants), export-control and economic-espionage matters from the semiconductor economy, and crypto cases in volume.
Ninth Circuit law governs, tech-literate juries change trial calculus, and the U.S. Attorney’s corporate-fraud strike force coordinates with SEC and FTC proceedings - parallel-track defense is standard equipment here.
Federal defense lawyers in San Jose, the founder-fraud courtroom.
The division that tried Theranos.
San Jose’s federal courthouse decided the defining founder-fraud case of the era - and its docket keeps the genre: startup prosecutions where the line between vision and deception is the whole trial. Around them: trade-secret cases between the Valley’s giants, export-control and economic-espionage files from the chip economy, and crypto in volume. When Silicon Valley gets charged, it gets charged here.
What you’re actually up against.
A corporate-fraud strike force that coordinates SEC and FTC tracks by default. Tech-literate juries who understand cap tables. Forensic evidence measured in terabytes. And the government’s favorite theory: that optimism emailed to an investor is a wire. The defense that works makes the jury see the difference between a founder who believed and one who lied. It’s provable - with the right record.
Why Spodek Law Group.
We’re not your average federal defense firm - we get it. The vision-versus-deception argument is this firm’s signature - the Sorokin jury heard it, Netflix filmed it, and it was built for exactly the cases this courthouse tries. An hour from our Los Angeles office, with local counsel where required.
The clock is already running.
A board investigation. A departing employee’s forensic image. An SEC letter about the Series B deck. Valley cases begin inside the company - be represented before the company’s lawyers stop being yours. 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 Jose as everywhere else. San Jose is an hour’s flight from our Los Angeles office; we appear across the Northern District of California’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.
See who fights for you before you ever call.
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 -
212 300 5196