In the court of law, the women lost the bulk of their case on summary judgment, a decision that surprised the media but was less of a surprise to lawyers who actually examined the case and sought alternative remedies for the team. Such claims were not subject to cross-examination. Few people critically examined the half-truths and outright distortions of arguments in which players making hundreds of thousands of dollars a year were portrayed as paupers who couldn’t afford child care. ![]() The fuzzy math and torturous logic of their legal team’s filings meant little when weighed against an unsympathetic US Soccer Federation, whose own lawyers drastically misstepped with a filing that claimed women have less “ability” than men, a move that precipitated the resignation of tone-deaf federation president Carlos Cordeiro. In the court of public opinion, the women did quite well. ![]() What’s mentioned a bit less frequently is one little detail: The women’s legal team’s filing includes plenty of self-aggrandizement about the landmark settlement and the collective bargaining agreement that followed, the latter of which was a multiparty conversation that would be at best tangentially related to the lawyers’ aggressive posture. ![]() Thanks to a filing by the US women’s legal team, we can now quantify at least part of that cost: “(T)he Court should award Plaintiffs’ counsel $6.6 million in attorneys’ fees and approve reimbursement of $1,369,127 ($1,319,127 plus $50,000) in expenses.”Īccording to that filing, the women who stand to collect that settlement are fine with that money – with the exception of Hope Solo, who has not settled a separate lawsuit against US Soccer and has pounced on those legal fees in an effort to block the settlement with her former teammates.
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