As the New York Giants and New England Patriots prepared to take the field on Sunday for Super Bowl XLVI, the four-and-a-half-month labor lockout and legal battle that nearly scuttled the current National Football League season seemed like a distant memory.
But with players’ union leaders taking heat in some quarters, The Am Law Daily, a Daily Report affiliate, reviewed what the union spent on its lawyers and lobbyists from Dewey & LeBoeuf, Latham & Watkins, Patton Boggs and Weil, Gotshal & Manges in the run-up to the contentious negotiations that ultimately produced a new collective bargaining agreement CBA in July.
