Spotlight: Jay-Z and Meek Mill Lawyer Alex Spiro Is Hip-Hop's Most Sought-After Criminal Justice Attorney
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billboard.com“The fairest thing is for people to start on equal footing. And in this country, people don’t always.” Last March, a coalition of hip-hop greats including Killer Mike, Meek Mill, Yo Gotti and Chance the Rapper sent a brief to the United States Supreme Court, detailing the ways rap music is stigmatized and stereotyped by the legal system. “Like all poets, rappers use figurative language, relying on a full range of literary devices,” read the “primer” on interpreting rap music, submitted in defense of Pittsburgh rapper Jamal Knox, who was arrested over his song “Fuck the Police.” The brief was filed by trial lawyer Alex Spiro, a partner at New York City-based Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP. “We were simply trying to illustrate that
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