Winston, Latham Take Lead for NFL Players Union in Pandemic Year

The National Football League Players Association paid nearly $5.2 million to more than a dozen outside law firms during its most recent fiscal year, with Winston & Strawn and Latham & Watkins racking up most of the fees, according to a recently filed financial statement.

An annual LM-2 filing made on May 28 with the Labor Department shows that the NFLPA’s outside legal fees remained mostly flat in the one-year period between March 1, 2020, and Feb. 28 of this year. The expenses were down slightly from the $5.4 million that the NFLPA paid its outside counsel during the labor ...