{"id":135466,"date":"2025-10-20T00:28:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T08:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/10\/20\/this-biglaw-partner-charges-3k-an-hour-for-a-reason\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T00:28:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T08:28:19","slug":"this-biglaw-partner-charges-3k-an-hour-for-a-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/10\/20\/this-biglaw-partner-charges-3k-an-hour-for-a-reason\/","title":{"rendered":"This Biglaw Partner Charges $3K An Hour For A Reason"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

The simple reason why lawyers like Alex Spiro can charge so much is that the work they do is valuable<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u2014 <\/i>Professor Jonathan Choi<\/a> of the Washington University School of Law in St. Louis, in comments given to Business Insider<\/a>, on Quinn Emanuel partner Alex Spiro\u2019s<\/a> ever-increasing hourly rate. Business Insider notes that Spiro\u2019s rate has nearly doubled to $3,000<\/a> over the last four years. As noted by Choi, \u201clitigants think it\u2019s worth it to have the best lawyer they can<\/em><\/strong>\u201c \u2014 and Spiro is one of the best there is. \u00a0<\/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 This Biglaw Partner Charges $3K An Hour For A Reason<\/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

The simple reason why lawyers like Alex Spiro can charge so much is that the work they do is valuable<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u2014 <\/i>Professor Jonathan Choi<\/a> of the Washington University School of Law in St. Louis, in comments given to Business Insider<\/a>, on Quinn Emanuel partner Alex Spiro\u2019s<\/a> ever-increasing hourly rate. Business Insider notes that Spiro\u2019s rate has nearly doubled to $3,000<\/a> over the last four years. As noted by Choi, \u201clitigants think it\u2019s worth it to have the best lawyer they can<\/em><\/strong>\u201c \u2014 and Spiro is one of the best there is. \u00a0<\/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

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Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. The simple reason why lawyers like Alex Spiro can charge so much is that the work they do is valuable. \u2014 Professor Jonathan Choi of the Washington University School of Law in St. Louis, in comments given to Business Insider, on Quinn Emanuel partner […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":135333,"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-135466","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-4eMcga.jpg?fit=150%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135466","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=135466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}