Major League Baseball’s Opening Day has arrived, along with new disclosures that show the baseball players’ union spent the most money on two law firms last year amid an abbreviated season, Winston & Strawn and Zuckerman Spaeder.
The Major League Baseball Players Association paid nearly $2 million to more than a dozen lawyers and law firms in 2020 for their labor and legal expertise, according to its most recent financial statement filed Wednesday with the Labor Department. Winston & Strawn and Zuckerman Spaeder received about one-third of that sum.
The firms were drafted in a difficult year for the sport. ...