{"id":125426,"date":"2025-07-03T15:04:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T23:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/07\/03\/alex-spiro-biglaws-3k-per-hour-man-has-his-sights-set-on-something-bigger-than-the-law\/"},"modified":"2025-07-03T15:04:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T23:04:08","slug":"alex-spiro-biglaws-3k-per-hour-man-has-his-sights-set-on-something-bigger-than-the-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/07\/03\/alex-spiro-biglaws-3k-per-hour-man-has-his-sights-set-on-something-bigger-than-the-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Spiro, Biglaw\u2019s $3K-Per-Hour Man, Has His Sights Set On Something Bigger Than The Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><u>Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature, <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/tag\/quote-of-the-day\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\"><strong>I\u00a0aim\u00a0to do things outside of the\u00a0law\u00a0\u2014 and I will \u2014 that I think will be a\u00a0bigger business than\u00a0my legal\u00a0business<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\"><strong><em><i>\u2014 <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.quinnemanuel.com\/attorneys\/spiro-alex\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Alex Spiro<\/a>, a partner at a partner at Quinn Emanuel, in comments given during a wide-ranging interview on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-07-03\/a-list-litigator-alex-spiro-aims-at-bigger-business-than-law\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Bloomberg\u2019s The Circuit with Emily Chang<\/a>, on what he aspires to do next in his career. Spiro declined to further elaborate on what he meant, but he\u2019s on the board of several companies, serves as a senior advisor at investment firm Consello, and recently attended Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez\u2019s wedding as a guest alongside Tom Brady. Spiro has a lot going for him, including his <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/02\/meet-alex-spiro-one-of-biglaws-most-well-known-3000-an-hour-lawyers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">$3,000 hourly rate<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-441281\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/abovethelaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/11\/Staci-Zaretsky.jpg?resize=150%2C100&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Staci Zaretsky\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" title=\"\"><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/author\/staci-zaretsky\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is a senior editor at Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to <a href=\"mailto:staci@abovethelaw.com\">email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/stacizaretsky.bsky.social\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stacizaretsky\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.threads.net\/@stacizaretsky\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/staci-zaretsky\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/07\/alex-spiro-biglaws-3k-per-hour-man-has-his-sights-set-on-something-bigger-than-the-law\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Spiro, Biglaw\u2019s $3K-Per-Hour Man, Has His Sights Set On Something Bigger Than The Law<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-single__featured-image post-single__featured-image--medium alignright\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/abovethelaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/07\/alex-spiro-GettyImages-1246387338-300x200.jpg?resize=300%2C200&#038;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><figcaption class=\"post-single__featured-image-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAlex Spiro (Photo by Marlena Sloss\/Bloomberg via Getty Images)\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em><u>Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature, <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/tag\/quote-of-the-day\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\"><strong>I\u00a0aim\u00a0to do things outside of the\u00a0law\u00a0\u2014 and I will \u2014 that I think will be a\u00a0bigger business than\u00a0my legal\u00a0business<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\"><strong><em><i>\u2014 <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.quinnemanuel.com\/attorneys\/spiro-alex\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Alex Spiro<\/a>, a partner at a partner at Quinn Emanuel, in comments given during a wide-ranging interview on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-07-03\/a-list-litigator-alex-spiro-aims-at-bigger-business-than-law\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Bloomberg\u2019s The Circuit with Emily Chang<\/a>, on what he aspires to do next in his career. Spiro declined to further elaborate on what he meant, but he\u2019s on the board of several companies, serves as a senior advisor at investment firm Consello, and recently attended Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez\u2019s wedding as a guest alongside Tom Brady. Spiro has a lot going for him, including his <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/02\/meet-alex-spiro-one-of-biglaws-most-well-known-3000-an-hour-lawyers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">$3,000 hourly rate<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/abovethelaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/11\/Staci-Zaretsky.jpg?w=1080&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Staci Zaretsky\" class=\"wp-image-441281\" title=\"\"><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/author\/staci-zaretsky\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is a senior editor at Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection#b8cbccd9dbd1f8d9dad7ceddccd0ddd4d9cf96dbd7d5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/stacizaretsky.bsky.social\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stacizaretsky\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.threads.net\/@stacizaretsky\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/staci-zaretsky\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. I\u00a0aim\u00a0to do things outside of the\u00a0law\u00a0\u2014 and I will \u2014 that I think will be a\u00a0bigger business than\u00a0my legal\u00a0business. \u2014 Alex Spiro, a partner at a partner at Quinn Emanuel, in comments given during a wide-ranging interview on Bloomberg\u2019s The Circuit with Emily Chang, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":125408,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Staci-Zaretsky-y59Xdo.jpeg?fit=150%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}