UPDATE: 5/15/15, 7:15 a.m. EDT. Dan Goldberg, the lawyer representing the Patriots, has issued a nearly 20,000-word rebuttal to the Wells report.

A week after a controversial 243-page investigative report by Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison dropped the hammer on the reigning Super Bowl champion New England Patriots for allegedly using underinflated footballs in a key National Football League playoff game earlier this year, the team and its star quarterback have lined up some high-powered counsel to handle a brewing fight off the field.

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