A View from the Top: A Forum with the Three Chief Legal Officers (All HLS Alumni) in Each of America’s Major Sports Leagues

Rick Buchanan ’88, executive vice president and league counsel for the NBA; Dan Halem ’91, chief legal counsel for MLB; and Jeffrey Pash ’80, executive vice president for the NFL, deal with the ultimate legal questions that can determine the direction of their leagues as they lead their in-house legal staff; strategically involve outside counsel; and work on a regular basis with each league’s owners and commissioners. They share issues in common, but each league presents its own unique legal and business challenges, which our alumni are intimately involved with on a daily basis.