The NFL has hired a major legal figure to defend against Brian Flores’ civil rights lawsuit. Former U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch, a litigation partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP in New York City, has been retained, according to Bloomberg. Lynch, the first African American female attorney general in U.S. history, possesses a unique background to help the NFL thread the needle: acknowledge that the league must do better with minority hiring but stress this problem doesn’t reflect unlawful conduct.
For this case, Lynch will join firm chairman Brad Karp, who has represented the NFL over the years and who graduated with Lynch from Harvard Law School in 1984. Their firm, Paul, Weiss, is familiar with NFL controversies. It represented the league in the concussion settlement and, through the Wells Report, in investigating the New England Patriots and Tom Brady in Deflategate.
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