Brad Karp was exhausted. The lawyer had just come out of a management-committee meeting of Paul Weiss, which followed fast on the heels of two board meetings that had dragged into the afternoon.

The NFL declined to make any league officials available and referred questions to Brad Karp, the outside lawyer who handled the settlement. Karp, in response to written questions, wrote that while ...

“Damian is a transcendently talented lawyer who has led many of the government’s highest-profile prosecutions and investigations,” Brad Karp, chair of Paul Weiss, said in a statement.

Paul Weiss, a leading New York firm, has strong Democratic Party ties. Its chairman Brad Karp last summer launched a fundraising effort in the legal community for U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris ...