{"id":156614,"date":"2026-07-13T14:38:35","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T22:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/07\/13\/larry-david-casts-his-biglaw-lawyer-in-new-show\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T14:38:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T22:38:35","slug":"larry-david-casts-his-biglaw-lawyer-in-new-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/07\/13\/larry-david-casts-his-biglaw-lawyer-in-new-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Larry David Casts His Biglaw Lawyer In New Show"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 2022, Larry David broke a decades-long refusal to do ads and starred in an FTX Super Bowl spot<\/a> as a time-traveling grouch who sneers at every advance in human history \u2014 the wheel, the fork, the toilet, democracy \u2014 before landing on a pitch for Sam Bankman-Fried\u2019s crypto exchange. \u201cEhhh, I don\u2019t think so,\u201d he says. \u201cAnd I\u2019m never wrong about this stuff. Never.\u201d The tag: \u201cDon\u2019t be like Larry. Don\u2019t miss out.\u201d<\/p>\n

As it turns out, Larry people should have taken his advertising character quite literally.<\/p>\n

Nine months later, with FTX a smoking crater, and Bankman-Fried was on his way to a 25-year sentence, all the celebrities who starred in ads for the platform \u2014 Tom Brady, Gisele B\u00fcndchen, Shaquille O\u2019Neal, Naomi Osaka, and, obviously, Larry David \u2014 were named defendants in a class action<\/a> accusing them of hawking unregistered securities to people who lost everything.<\/p>\n

Enter Latham\u2019s Andrew Clubok<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Clubok, the global chair of Latham & Watkins\u2019 securities litigation practice, represented Larry and others in the case<\/a>. In May 2025, Judge K. Michael Moore tossed 12 of the 14 claims<\/a>, ruling that being \u201cuninformed, negligent, or even reckless\u201d about a crypto exchange is not the same as knowing it was a fraud. The spokespeople probably should have taken a lesson from Taylor Swift, who famously asked pointed questions about FTX\u2019s business before rejecting the bid<\/a>, or our former Dealbreaker colleague Matt Levine<\/a>, who told Bankman-Fried on a podcast \u201cYou\u2019re just like, well, I\u2019m in the Ponzi business and it\u2019s pretty good<\/a>.\u201d In any event, the celebrities who did cut ads for FTX were left facing two claims \u2014 unregistered-securities counts under Florida and Oklahoma law \u2014 but Clubok has substantially cleared them of liability.<\/p>\n

Larry apparently decided Clubok\u2019s talents would translate to the screen, and gave him a part in his new show.<\/p>\n

In the third episode of Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness<\/a> \u2014 the HBO series in which David and Jeff Schaffer restage American history as \u201cCurb in costume,\u201d with Barack and Michelle Obama producing \u2014 Clubok appears as Senator Charles E. Potter<\/a>. The episode restages the Army-McCarthy hearings, with David playing Joe McCarthy and Michael McKean as Army counsel Joseph Welch, the man who finally asked, \u201cHave you no sense of decency?\u201d<\/p>\n

The McCarthy hearings are the ur-text of American lawyers shredding constitutional order. That\u2019s the room that gave us Roy Cohn \u2014 McCarthy\u2019s chief counsel and Donald Trump\u2019s mentor and fixer \u2014 the legal profession\u2019s patron saint of bad faith. Clubok, by contrast, appears one of the few people in that room who walked out looking good. The real Charles Potter<\/a> was a Michigan Republican who lost both legs in the war, broke ranks to become the first senator to call out McCarthy\u2019s staff, demanded Cohn be fired over suborning perjury, and later wrote an entire book \u2014 Days of Shame<\/em> \u2014 repudiating the whole circus.<\/p>\n

Schaffer told Variety<\/em> that the characters David plays \u201cdidn\u2019t change history \u2014 in fact, they were largely ignored by history. And that\u2019s a good thing.\u201d Unfortunately, ignominious characters like McCarthy and his pit bull Cohn find themselves enjoying a disgraceful renaissance now that Cohn\u2019s protege naps in the Oval Office. <\/p>\n

As for the man who is never wrong \u2014 the wheel, the fork, FTX \u2014 it turns out he was right about hiring good starring counsel.<\/p>\n

Earlier<\/strong>: Taylor Swift Is A Better Lawyer Than You<\/a>
Judge Tells SBF\u2019s Mom To Please Stop Filing Motions Demanding To Speak With A Manager<\/a><\/p>\n

\n

\"Headshot\"Joe Patrice<\/a>\u00a0is a senior editor at Above the Law and co-host of Thinking Like A Lawyer<\/a>. Feel free to\u00a0email<\/a> any tips, questions, or comments. Follow him on\u00a0Twitter<\/a>\u00a0or Bluesky<\/a> if you\u2019re interested in law, politics, and a healthy dose of college sports news.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The post Larry David Casts His Biglaw Lawyer In New Show<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLife, Larry, and the Pursuit of Unhappiness.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In 2022, Larry David broke a decades-long refusal to do ads and starred in an FTX Super Bowl spot<\/a> as a time-traveling grouch who sneers at every advance in human history \u2014 the wheel, the fork, the toilet, democracy \u2014 before landing on a pitch for Sam Bankman-Fried\u2019s crypto exchange. \u201cEhhh, I don\u2019t think so,\u201d he says. \u201cAnd I\u2019m never wrong about this stuff. Never.\u201d The tag: \u201cDon\u2019t be like Larry. Don\u2019t miss out.\u201d<\/p>\n

As it turns out, Larry people should have taken his advertising character quite literally.<\/p>\n

Nine months later, with FTX a smoking crater, and Bankman-Fried was on his way to a 25-year sentence, all the celebrities who starred in ads for the platform \u2014 Tom Brady, Gisele B\u00fcndchen, Shaquille O\u2019Neal, Naomi Osaka, and, obviously, Larry David \u2014 were named defendants in a class action<\/a> accusing them of hawking unregistered securities to people who lost everything.<\/p>\n

Enter Latham\u2019s Andrew Clubok<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Clubok, the global chair of Latham & Watkins\u2019 securities litigation practice, represented Larry and others in the case<\/a>. In May 2025, Judge K. Michael Moore tossed 12 of the 14 claims<\/a>, ruling that being \u201cuninformed, negligent, or even reckless\u201d about a crypto exchange is not the same as knowing it was a fraud. The spokespeople probably should have taken a lesson from Taylor Swift, who famously asked pointed questions about FTX\u2019s business before rejecting the bid<\/a>, or our former Dealbreaker colleague Matt Levine<\/a>, who told Bankman-Fried on a podcast \u201cYou\u2019re just like, well, I\u2019m in the Ponzi business and it\u2019s pretty good<\/a>.\u201d In any event, the celebrities who did cut ads for FTX were left facing two claims \u2014 unregistered-securities counts under Florida and Oklahoma law \u2014 but Clubok has substantially cleared them of liability.<\/p>\n

Larry apparently decided Clubok\u2019s talents would translate to the screen, and gave him a part in his new show.<\/p>\n

In the third episode of Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness<\/a> \u2014 the HBO series in which David and Jeff Schaffer restage American history as \u201cCurb in costume,\u201d with Barack and Michelle Obama producing \u2014 Clubok appears as Senator Charles E. Potter<\/a>. The episode restages the Army-McCarthy hearings, with David playing Joe McCarthy and Michael McKean as Army counsel Joseph Welch, the man who finally asked, \u201cHave you no sense of decency?\u201d<\/p>\n

The McCarthy hearings are the ur-text of American lawyers shredding constitutional order. That\u2019s the room that gave us Roy Cohn \u2014 McCarthy\u2019s chief counsel and Donald Trump\u2019s mentor and fixer \u2014 the legal profession\u2019s patron saint of bad faith. Clubok, by contrast, appears one of the few people in that room who walked out looking good. The real Charles Potter<\/a> was a Michigan Republican who lost both legs in the war, broke ranks to become the first senator to call out McCarthy\u2019s staff, demanded Cohn be fired over suborning perjury, and later wrote an entire book \u2014 Days of Shame<\/em> \u2014 repudiating the whole circus.<\/p>\n

Schaffer told Variety<\/em> that the characters David plays \u201cdidn\u2019t change history \u2014 in fact, they were largely ignored by history. And that\u2019s a good thing.\u201d Unfortunately, ignominious characters like McCarthy and his pit bull Cohn find themselves enjoying a disgraceful renaissance now that Cohn\u2019s protege naps in the Oval Office. <\/p>\n

As for the man who is never wrong \u2014 the wheel, the fork, FTX \u2014 it turns out he was right about hiring good starring counsel.<\/p>\n

Earlier<\/strong>: Taylor Swift Is A Better Lawyer Than You<\/a>
Judge Tells SBF\u2019s Mom To Please Stop Filing Motions Demanding To Speak With A Manager<\/a><\/p>\n

\n

\"Headshot\"Joe Patrice<\/a>\u00a0is a senior editor at Above the Law and co-host of Thinking Like A Lawyer<\/a>. Feel free to\u00a0email<\/a> any tips, questions, or comments. Follow him on\u00a0Twitter<\/a>\u00a0or Bluesky<\/a> if you\u2019re interested in law, politics, and a healthy dose of college sports news.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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