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Since 1998, Robert D. Manfred, Jr. has served as Executive
Vice President of Labor Relations for Major League
Baseball. His primary responsibility is
Baseball's collective bargaining relationship with the Major League
Baseball Players Association. He served as the
chief negotiator for the Clubs in both 2002 and
2006. Mr. Manfred is also responsible for the
collective bargaining relationship with the World Umpires
Association and the human resources function in the Commissioner's
Office in New York.
Mr. Manfred graduated from the School of Industrial and Labor
Relations at Cornell University in 1980. He
received his law degree magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in
1983, where he was an articles editor of the Harvard Law
Review. While at Harvard, he wrote a Note
concerning contribution limitations under the Labor Management
Reporting and Disclosure Act. Following law
school, Mr. Manfred served as a clerk to U.S. District Court Judge
Joseph L. Tauro in the District of Massachusetts.
Following his clerkship, Mr. Manfred joined the Labor and
Employment Law Section of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP resident
in the Washington, D.C., office. He became a
partner in the firm in 1992. At Morgan, Lewis,
Mr. Manfred represented employers in numerous industries, including
transportation, healthcare, professional sports and
airlines. He participated directly in the
formulation and negotiation of economic and non-economic proposals
for Major League Baseball in two separate rounds of collective
bargaining (1990 and 1994-96). He represented
individual teams in salary arbitrations and in grievance
arbitrations and provided advice to teams on their individual
salary negotiations with players. Outside the
professional sports context, Mr. Manfred negotiated agreements with
nurses, operating engineers and service employees on behalf of the
Washington Hospital Center.
Active in professional organizations, Mr. Manfred is a member
of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers, is a member of the
Labor Section of the American Bar Association and is a member of
the Massachusetts and District of Columbia Bar
Associations.
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