Texas Federal Criminal Lawyers.
Four districts that together indict more federal defendants than any state - border volume in the south and west, Houston’s energy and healthcare fraud, Dallas’ financial docket, and a Fifth Circuit that shapes national law.
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 districts.
The biggest docket in America.
Texas’ four districts together produce more federal prosecutions than any state: the border divisions of the Southern and Western Districts run reentry and trafficking cases at conveyor speed (with the fast-track discounts and their traps), while El Paso and Laredo’s courthouses process importation conspiracies daily. Houston’s docket matches its economy - energy-trading and FCPA cases, healthcare fraud at strike-force volume, money laundering through the international banking corridor.
Dallas runs one of the country’s busiest financial-fraud calendars - Ponzi, crypto, and bank cases - plus the Collin County fraud corridor feeding the Eastern District. Austin adds tech and crypto prosecutions. Over all of it sits the Fifth Circuit: fast, textualist, and lately the source of the country’s most consequential firearms and administrative-law rulings - a circuit whose doctrine the defense must know before the first motion.
Federal defense lawyers in Texas, the biggest docket in America.
Four districts that out-indict entire states.
The border divisions of the Southern and Western Districts process reentry and trafficking at conveyor speed. Houston matches its economy: energy-trading fraud, FCPA, healthcare at strike-force volume, laundering through the international banks. Dallas runs one of the country’s busiest financial-fraud calendars. Austin adds tech and crypto. El Paso and Laredo never stop. Texas is not one federal practice - it’s five, wearing one flag.
What you’re actually up against.
Fast-track offers with expiration dates in the border courts. Strike forces in Houston. SEC parallel proceedings out of Fort Worth. And the Fifth Circuit over everything - fast, textualist, and lately the most consequential circuit in America on firearms and administrative law. Texas rewards defendants whose lawyers know which of the five games they’re in. It buries the rest.
Why Spodek Law Group.
We’re not your average federal defense firm - we get it. Over 50 years of combined experience. Thousands of federal cases since 1976, second generation. The Sorokin defense became a Netflix series. The R. Kelly witness matter made the AP wire. When federal cases break, the press calls this firm - and prosecutors know exactly which defense lawyers try cases. It changes every conversation about yours.
Houston and Dallas are direct flights from both offices, and we appear across all four Texas districts with local counsel where required. Energy fraud, healthcare, laundering, border files - the practice maps onto this state precisely.
The clock is already running.
In the border divisions the clock is days. In Houston and Dallas it’s the quiet years of a grand jury. Either way it’s running - and it started before you knew. 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 Texas as everywhere else. Houston and Dallas are direct flights from both offices; we appear across all four Texas districts with local counsel where required, and border-division timelines get the same first-72-hours protocol as everything else. 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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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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