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- Updated: July 28, 2016
1:15 PM ET
In its effort to overturn the four-game suspension that NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell imposed on Tom Brady, the NFL Players Association has spent more than $3.5 million on legal fees, according to detailed billing records filed with the U.S. Department of Labor. And the expenses continue to build as the union ponders a possible attempt to interest the U.S. Supreme Court in the dispute.
Like all labor organizations in the U.S., the NFLPA must file detailed, financial reports with the federal government. The 466-page report was submitted two months ago and covers the year that began on March 1, 2015 and ended on February 29, 2016. The listing of expenses includes the monthly payments to Winston & Strawn, the law firm that, led by attorney Jeffrey Kessler, performed all of the work on Deflategate until the union added the highly regarded appellate advocate Ted Olson to its legal team earlier this year. The work of Olson and his firm, Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher, which likely ran into the hundreds of thousands of dollars, came too late to be included in the report.
In an effort to overturn Patriots QB Tom Brady’s four-game suspension, the NFLPA has spent more than $3.5 million in Deflategate legal fees according to detailed billing records filed with the U.S. Department of Labor. AP Photo/Richard Drew
Although there has been considerable speculation about the legal fees that the league and the union have invested in a dispute over the inflation of footballs, these billings are the first report of the actual fees that …
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