It has risen quickly: As recently as spring 2021, Spiro charged $1,595 an hour. Two years later, it was $2,180 an hour. Those are the rates that Brock Pierce, the child actor-turned-crypto investor, said he was charged for Spiro's advice by his law firm Quinn Emanuel, which is trying to stick Pierce with a $1 million legal bill that he says isn't his responsibility.
The family of the top Cornell University grad who was one of the four people killed last month when a gunman went on a shooting rampage at a Midtown Manhattan office tower is mulling a possible lawsuit. High-profile attorney Alex Spiro has been retained by the family of 27-year-old Julia Hyman, who was an associate at the property firm Rudin Management, the lawyer confirmed to Business Insider on Friday.