Celebrities

How Do Lawyers For Celebrities Land Their Clients?

If you're curious, here's something worth listening to.

Alex Spiro

Alex Spiro

I’m not in the yellow pages, I don’t have a website…. It’s word of mouth, and perhaps dumb luck. A lot of folks involved in sports and entertainment know me, and I know them — socially or through these cases or other means — and I’m fortunate enough that they trust me and know that if they call me at all hours, I will respond.

Alex Spiro, the prominent criminal-defense lawyer who has represented multiple NBA players in the past year, discussing in an ESPN podcast how he lands star athletes as clients.

(For more about Spiro, see A Wrongful-Arrest Defense Clinic: The Thabo Sefolosha Story.)