Lawyers, paralegals and support staff at Winston & Strawn put in more than 40,000 hours to win a recent injunction barring the National Collegiate Athletic Association from capping education-related benefits for certain college athletes, work worth more than $24 million based on the firm’s historical billing rates, according to a declaration filed Tuesday alongside a fee motion in the case.

The details of the firm’s work alongside co-lead plaintiffs counsel at Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro, and Pearson, Simon & Warshaw were included in court papers submitted Tuesday claiming the team of lawyers spent more than 51,000 hours on the case, which culminated in a 10-day bench trial last year. The lawyers are seeking nearly $45 million in attorney fees as a result of what they call “a historic and substantial judgment.”

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