UPDATE: 2/16/2013, 6:00 p.m. EDT. Following the publication of this story, the NBPA voted unanimously to replace Billy Hunter as executive director of the union, according to The Associated Press.

G. William Hunter—the embattled executive director of the National Basketball Players Association placed on an indefinite paid leave amid accusations of nepotism and mismanagement—has hired Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan to challenge allegations leveled against him in a $5 million independent report released last month by Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison.