The Major League Baseball Players Association paid $3.5 million in legal fees last year, with Winston & Strawn taking the largest share, as the union sought to resolve a labor dispute threatening the 2022 baseball season.
Winston & Strawn, a longtime legal adviser to baseball players and their brethren in other sports, collected more than $2.2 million for handling grievance and salary arbitration work. The fees were more than a five-fold increase over the $386,100 the firm billed the New York-based union in 2020.
The bulk of the union’s 2021 legal work was tied to a collective bargaining agreement ...