His criminal defense work has been first rate and his law firm is filled with bright young associates who likely did the leg work on his investigation for the NFL. Although some have accused the New York-based lawyer as having an anti-Patriot bias, that seems most unlikely. Wells and his team reported what they found which was not very much despite numerous billable hours. They found no direct evidence of tampering with the inflation of the footballs in question. They then drew conclusions from the circumstantial evidence.