Over the course of his nearly 40-year legal career, Theodore V. Wells Jr. has defended a cross section of Washington politicians and Wall Street financiers, becoming one of the best-known trial lawyers in public corruption and insider trading cases. In recent months, his focus shifted to a much different sort of wrongdoing: deflated footballs.
On Wednesday, Wells and his colleagues at the law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison released their much-anticipated report on the New England Patriots’ deflated footballs, concluding that team personnel intentionally deflated them to gain an advantage in the A.F.C. championship game last season.