Bart Waldman

Bart is the Executive Vice President of Legal & Governmental Affairs for the Seattle Mariners Baseball Club. He joined the Mariners in January 2006, after 27 years with Seattle’s Perkins Coie law firm, where his practice focused on sports, labor and employment law. While at Perkins Coie, he served as primary outside counsel to the Mariners, handling all aspects of contract negotiation and drafting, salary arbitration, general business advice, and labor matters. He served as the Club’s lead counsel in all aspects of the planning, financing and development of Safeco Field. He has also negotiated and prepared most of the Club’s major contracts, including player contracts, television and radio contracts, ballpark leases, ticketing and concessions agreements, and major sponsorships. Mr. Waldman is a 1970 graduate of Harvard College and received his law degree in 1978 from Georgetown University Law Center, where he was selected for the staff of the Georgetown Law Journal. He worked in Washington, D.C. for eight years before moving to Seattle and joining the Perkins law firm in 1978. During those eight years, he held administrative and legislative positions with the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare and the Association of American Medical Colleges. Mr. Waldman has served as Vice-Chairman of the Seattle-King County Chamber of Commerce Task Force on Human Rights, a trustee of the Municipal League of King County, and an officer of the Puget Sound Senior Baseball League. He has been a guest instructor at the University of Washington School of Law, and a frequent speaker at seminars and continuing education programs. He was listed as one of the Best Lawyers in America by that publication in each of his last 14 years of private law practice.