Philadelphia Federal Criminal Lawyers.
City hall’s corruption docket, the unions’ cases, healthcare fraud from the hospital systems - tried in the courthouse the Third Circuit sits on top of, ninety minutes from our New York headquarters.
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.
Politics, unions, and hospital money.
Philadelphia’s federal docket carries the city’s institutions: public corruption from city hall to the row offices (councilmembers, judges, and labor leadership in a continuing series), union-adjacent prosecutions, and healthcare fraud from one of the country’s densest hospital corridors. Violent-crime initiatives adopt firearms cases in volume, and the port and airport feed trafficking counts.
The Third Circuit sits in the same building - its privilege and suppression doctrine is among the more defense-respecting in the country, which rewards technical litigation - and the district’s proximity to New York means this firm treats E.D. Pa. as a neighbor court, not a destination.
Federal defense lawyers in Philadelphia, ninety minutes from our door.
Politics, unions, and hospital money.
Philadelphia’s federal docket carries the city’s institutions: corruption from city hall to the row offices, union-adjacent prosecutions, healthcare fraud from one of the densest hospital corridors in America, and gun adoptions at volume. The cases come with history - this office has been trying Philadelphia’s power structures for generations, and it knows the terrain personally.
What you’re actually up against.
Cooperators years deep inside political and labor structures. Billing analytics inside the hospital systems. And the Third Circuit sitting upstairs in the same courthouse - with privilege and suppression doctrine that genuinely rewards technical defense. Philadelphia cases are won by lawyers who litigate the Third Circuit’s law like they live in it.
Why Spodek Law Group.
We’re not your average federal defense firm - we get it. Philadelphia is an Amtrak ride from 85 Broad Street - same-week appearances, no travel theater, local counsel where required. Corruption defense, healthcare defense, and the press-facing experience that Philadelphia’s headline cases demand: the firm the cameras already know.
The clock is already running.
A union subpoena. A hospital audit. A councilman’s aide suddenly lawyered up. The Byrne courthouse’s cases build quietly - answer before the quiet ends. 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 Philadelphia as everywhere else. Philadelphia is an Amtrak ride from 85 Broad Street; appearances happen same-week, 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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