Spodek Law Group: The Second-Generation Firm Behind the Anna Delvey Defense Netflix Dramatized

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When Netflix needed a defense lawyer at the center of Inventing Anna, it dramatized a real one: Todd Spodek, whose 2019 defense of Anna Sorokin — “Just like Sinatra had to do it his way, Anna had to do it her way” — was argued in a Manhattan courtroom before Arian Moayed played him for 320 million viewing hours. The show is the famous part; the structure underneath is a second-generation Brooklyn-born firm that has been defending New Yorkers since 1976 and whose recent federal docket runs from the Ghislaine Maxwell juror inquiry to a complete acquittal in a $26 million money-laundering trial.

At a Glance

Firm	Spodek Law Group P.C. — second-generation practice; the founding Spodek firm has operated since 1976
Managing Partner	Todd A. Spodek (Brooklyn-raised; criminal justice, Northeastern University; J.D., Pace University School of Law)
Offices	Lower Manhattan (85 Broad Street, near City Hall Park) and Brooklyn (Schermerhorn Street and Jay Street locations); the firm also maintains a Los Angeles presence
Focus	State and federal criminal defense — trial work, investigations, white-collar and fraud matters — across the five boroughs, the metro region, and federal courts nationwide; the firm also handles family law and immigration matters
Service Model	24/7 availability; dedicated case managers; the firm states every client holds the managing partner’s cell number
Fee Structure	Free, confidential consultation

Career History

Spodek is second-generation criminal defense: raised in Brooklyn working in his father’s firm, which has practiced since 1976, he studied criminal justice at Northeastern, took his law degree at Pace — arguing moot court from his first year — and worked as a clerk and paralegal in Boston and New York before admission. He built the modern firm into a multi-office operation with its practice centered a short walk from the Manhattan federal courthouse at 500 Pearl Street and one subway stop from Brooklyn’s Cadman Plaza. He has held Super Lawyers selection from 2020 through 2025, carries Avvo’s Superb rating, and serves as an on-air legal analyst for CNN, Fox News, and other outlets, including trial coverage of major federal prosecutions.

Practice Concentration

The core is criminal defense at both the state street-crime level and the federal white-collar level — a genuinely two-track practice in which the same firm handles a Brooklyn arraignment and an SDNY grand jury subpoena. The federal side is the differentiator: the firm’s own home courts are the Southern and Eastern Districts, and its published docket spans money laundering, RICO, Ponzi schemes, and healthcare fraud, with nationwide federal representation. The firm also maintains family law and immigration lines — a breadth we disclose plainly as part of its full-service model, with criminal defense as the unambiguous center of gravity.

Track Record

Unusually for this category, the marquee results are independently documented in national media rather than merely firm-claimed: the Sorokin defense (the trial Netflix dramatized); service as counsel to Juror 50 in U.S. v. Maxwell, who testified under immunity and was never charged, preserving the verdict — covered by the New York Times; the defense in the R. Kelly trial witness-intimidation matter in Brooklyn federal court, where the AP reported Spodek’s successful argument against the government’s requested message sentence; and the 2013 Alec Baldwin stalking trial, in which Spodek cross-examined the star himself. The firm’s published results also include a complete acquittal at trial in a $26 million federal money-laundering case, a dismissed RICO charge that had carried a ten-year mandatory minimum, a six-month sentence in a $12 million Ponzi matter where prosecutors sought years, and a no-additional-prison outcome for a former NBA player in a $4 million healthcare-fraud case covered by ESPN. Firm-published dispositions beyond the media-covered matters are attributed as the firm’s accounts. Past results do not guarantee or predict a similar outcome in any future case.

Client Voice

The firm states it has accumulated more than 700 client reviews across platforms — a firm-reported aggregate we attribute as such. The independently visible slices are consistent: on the Brooklyn Yelp listing, reviewers repeatedly praise not only Spodek but the support staff by name, with one noting they were “very impressed by Alex, the paralegal” — and the recurring theme is responsiveness, with questions answered almost immediately by text, call, or email. That staff-forward pattern is consistent with the firm’s case-manager model, which we describe plainly: clients interact with a team, not only the name partner. This research did not surface a pattern of negative reviews or any public disciplinary findings.

Beyond the Courtroom

Spodek’s public legal commentary — trial analysis for national broadcast audiences — functions as public education on how federal prosecutions actually work, and the firm publishes extensive procedural explainers, including court-specific guides down to the level of Brooklyn’s Red Hook community court, a problem-solving venue most firms never mention. The multigenerational Brooklyn identity — a firm that has represented borough clients continuously since 1976 — is its own form of community institution.

Recognition

Sorting per our standard: the national-media documentation of the firm’s major matters is the weightiest form of verification in this profile; the Super Lawyers selections (2020–2025) are peer-informed recognition from a commercial publication; the Avvo Superb rating is algorithmic and profile-based; and the “AIFLA Top 10” designation is a membership-based marketing-program award, which we label as such. A disclosure we apply to every New York profile: New York State does not operate a board certification program for legal specialties comparable to the Texas Board of Legal Specialization, so no New York attorney profile on this site will describe its subject as a state-certified specialist, and this profile attributes no certification to Spodek.

New York Legal Backdrop

A New York criminal case moves on statutory clocks that defendants rarely know exist. After arrest, arraignment generally must occur within about twenty-four hours; a felony defendant held on bail must be released under CPL § 180.80 if the prosecution fails to secure grand jury action within the statutory period (120 hours, or 144 hours spanning a weekend or holiday). CPL § 30.30 sets speedy-trial clocks — six months on most felonies, ninety days on class A misdemeanors — and New York’s discovery reform, CPL Article 245, obligates prosecutors to turn over their evidence on an automatic timetable. CPL § 160.59 permits sealing of up to two eligible convictions after ten crime-free years. Federal cases in the Southern and Eastern Districts run on different machinery — grand jury practice, the Bail Reform Act, and Sentencing Guidelines math — where, as this firm’s own materials put it, the file is often thick before the defendant ever learns it exists, and the earliest days shape everything after. None of this is legal advice; consult a licensed New York attorney about your situation.

Awesome Attorneys Assessment

The case for Spodek is verified high-stakes performance with genuine two-borough, two-system infrastructure: nationally documented trial results in both celebrity-glare state cases and serious federal matters, a fifty-year firm foundation, offices positioned at both federal courthouses’ doorsteps, 24/7 team-based service, and a rare willingness to try cases that the government expects to plead.

The honest trade-offs, stated plainly: this firm operates one of the most aggressive marketing apparatuses in the category — a network of superlative-heavy websites — and our assessment rests on its independently documented matters, not its slogans; prospective clients should do the same. The 700-plus review figure is a firm-reported aggregate, with individually visible platform counts far smaller. The practice’s breadth (family law, immigration, multi-state offices) means clients should ask which attorney and office will actually handle their matter. And a celebrity docket, however real, does not change the economics or attention a routine misdemeanor receives — a question worth asking directly at the free consultation.

Methodology & Sourcing

This profile was researched and written independently by Awesome Attorneys in August 2026 without the participation, sponsorship, or payment of Spodek Law Group P.C. Primary sources: the firm’s websites (nyccriminalattorneys.com and federallawyers.com), including attorney biography, results, and office pages (1976 founding; education and career path; office locations; results roster; service-model claims; the 700+ review aggregate attributed above as firm-reported). Independent verification: national media coverage of the firm’s major matters — the New York Times, Business Insider, and New York Post on the Maxwell Juror 50 representation; the Associated Press, Billboard, Fox News, and NBC New York on the R. Kelly witness-intimidation sentencing; ESPN on the healthcare-fraud matter; and the Netflix series Inventing Anna dramatizing the Sorokin defense; Yelp Brooklyn listing (17 reviews; staff-responsiveness themes; the paralegal quote above); Super Lawyers selections 2020–2025. The AIFLA designation is labeled as a marketing-program award per our standard. Statutes cited in the New York Legal Backdrop were verified against the New York Criminal Procedure Law (§§ 30.30, 160.59, 180.80, and Article 245).

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