What Next For The Star Lawyer?

Tom Borman, LawFuel contributing editor

Alex Spiro—the courtroom maestro who’s played legal defense for heavy hitters like Tom Brady, Elon Musk, Jay‑Z (yeah, that Jay‑Z), Alec Baldwin, and even WeWork’s Adam Neumann—is telling Emily Chang on The Circuit that he’s officially bored. He wants to jump into something bigger than law.

“Why stay chained to the courtroom when you can build an empire?” he seems to be asking.

There was no elaboration on quite what Spiro was referring to. He serves on several boards, including working as an advisor to investment firm Consello, who reference him as both a successful litigator and investor, including being a strategic advisor to a number of ‘ground breaking companies’ and being one of the hyper-connected guests at the Venetian wedding of Jeff Bezos.

Beyond billing roughly $3,000 an hour, Spiro admitted he’s itching to get out of the courtroom and dive headlong into something “bigger than the law.” He told Chang he’s setting his sights on ventures that dwarf even his high‑stakes legal empire.

The move is a classic, ‘reach the top, then pivot’ move. Think Gwyneth Paltrow leaving Shakespeare in Love to start Goop.

When Chang brought up his involvement in that chaotic Twitter takeover and his work for Elon Musk Spiro leaned in—saying he was “in the trenches.” From what the post-interview buzz hinted, he reflected on what worked (and what spectacularly didn’t) during that corporate rollercoaster.

With clients like Musk, Jay‑Z, Megan Thee Stallion, Baldwin, Brady Spiro’s no stranger to top-tier complexity.

Mastering crisis lawyering translates well to turbulent startup, media, and corporate environments. So let’s wait and see what Alex Spiro has in mind after a stellar legal career.