Chris Seeger, one of the lawyers leading class counsel in the NFL concussion litigation settlement has made a $70 million fee request on behalf of his firm, Seeger Weiss, which he outlined Tuesday in a  22-page declaration to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

In the declaration, requested by the court to inform its upcoming disbursement of $114 million in attorney feesand costs, Seeger detailed the work his firm, along with 26 other firms and a law professor, put in toward negotiating and implementing the $1 billion settlement aimed at compensating roughly 20,000 football players who suffered concussion-related injuries while playing for the National Football League.

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