Bloomberg Law
Oct. 22, 2019, 5:07 PM UTCUpdated: Oct. 22, 2019, 6:19 PM UTC

As NBA Season Begins, Legal Bills Plunge for Players’ Union (1)

Brian Baxter
Brian Baxter
Reporter

Law firms Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe and Dechert can consider themselves champions, at least when it comes to top billings with the National Basketball Association Players Association as the regular season opens Oct. 22.

The NBPA spent nearly $2 million on external legal counsel between July 1, 2018 and June 30 of this year, according to an annual financial statement it filed with the Labor Department on Sept. 28.

That’s about $3.8 million less than the union spent on legal matters the previous year, according to the filing, known as an LM-2. The higher spending during the NBPA’s 2017-18 fiscal ...

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