![]() ![]() He’s also mapped out an electric car future and is well on his way toward achieving it. He dreamed up a tunnel under Los Angeles to counter the city's congested highways, and then founded a company to dig it. Over the past few decades, Musk promised to land a reusable rocket on a robotic ocean barge, and then he went and did it. “No one can bring people together like he can to do the impossible.” “ can say whatever he wants about Elon Musk,” he said. And having lured the jury in with a fantastical closing argument about his client’s supposed generosity and heroics, Spiro threw in some flattery for the person paying his bills. His only obvious weakness seemed to be the brace on his right foot, the result of an injury sustained during a pickup game.Ī high-profile trial lawyer who worked for the CIA before assembling a client list that included New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, Mick Jagger, and Jay-Z, Spiro was on the clock for another billionaire defendant on a Friday last December. ![]() His demeanor was casual - he dropped a few “dudes” that belied his Harvard law degree - but forceful. The 6-foot-something attorney stood imposingly at the lectern in the Los Angeles federal court with the confidence of a guy compelled to remind people he lettered in high school varsity basketball for four years and almost walked onto his college team.
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