{"id":135257,"date":"2025-10-16T15:55:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T23:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/10\/16\/acclaimed-civil-litigator-earns-unlikely-spot-on-criminal-defense-ranking\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T15:55:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T23:55:14","slug":"acclaimed-civil-litigator-earns-unlikely-spot-on-criminal-defense-ranking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/10\/16\/acclaimed-civil-litigator-earns-unlikely-spot-on-criminal-defense-ranking\/","title":{"rendered":"Acclaimed Civil Litigator Earns Unlikely Spot On Criminal Defense Ranking"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

While I don\u2019t practice criminal (only civil) law, I do have an aversion to bullies and so I am honored to be ranked so highly on a list of people to call if you are in trouble.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014 <\/i>Renowned litigator Roberta Kaplan<\/a>, in comments given to Bloomberg Law<\/a>, after she placed third in a survey regarding the attorney readers would call if they found themselves in white-collar legal trouble. Quinn Emanuel\u2019s Alex Spiro<\/a>, lawyer to the stars, came in first place.<\/em><\/strong> <\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is the managing editor of Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The post Acclaimed Civil Litigator Earns Unlikely Spot On Criminal Defense Ranking<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

While I don\u2019t practice criminal (only civil) law, I do have an aversion to bullies and so I am honored to be ranked so highly on a list of people to call if you are in trouble.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014 <\/i>Renowned litigator Roberta Kaplan<\/a>, in comments given to Bloomberg Law<\/a>, after she placed third in a survey regarding the attorney readers would call if they found themselves in white-collar legal trouble. Quinn Emanuel\u2019s Alex Spiro<\/a>, lawyer to the stars, came in first place.<\/em><\/strong> <\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is the managing editor of Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The post Acclaimed Civil Litigator Earns Unlikely Spot On Criminal Defense Ranking<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. While I don\u2019t practice criminal (only civil) law, I do have an aversion to bullies and so I am honored to be ranked so highly on a list of people to call if you are in trouble. \u2014 Renowned litigator Roberta Kaplan, in comments […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":135242,"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-135257","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\/10\/Staci-Zaretsky-Q2kzVg.jpg?fit=150%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135257","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=135257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}