J. Mac Daly (’19) Spends Summer Interning for Boston Red Sox
As the summer legal intern for the Boston Red Sox and the Fenway Sports Group, Daly fulfilled a lifelong dream.
Growing up in Connecticut, J. Mac Daly (’19) lived right on the line between Yankee and Red Sox fans. Though his entire family supported the Boston-based team, his rebellious streak as a child led him to support the Yankees. This however, did not dissuade Daly from his fascination with Fenway Park. While still in middle school he built a replica of the park in his backyard to play whiffle ball, and with time his appreciation of Fenway grew into pride for the Red Sox. Moving to Boston for law school only intensified his love for the team.
“Through all the ups and downs of law school and life, when my dad and I go to a game at Fenway, all is right in the world,” says Daly.
When he learned that Fenway Sports Group was hiring a summer legal intern, he jumped at the chance to work for the Red Sox. Two interviews later, he was offered the position working with the general counsel’s office.
“It was a real dream job for me to have a desk in Fenway Park,” Daly says.
Over his 2L summer, Daly served as a legal intern for the Boston Red Sox and the Fenway Sports Group. He was assigned a variety of projects for the general counsel’s office, drafting marketing and sponsorship agreements and researching Major League Baseball rules for the team.
Along with the Red Sox, the Fenway Sports Group also oversees Liverpool Football Club, a popular soccer team in the English Premier League, manages a NASCAR team, Roush Fenway Racing, and the New England Sports Network (NESN) TV channel. Daly is also a fan of the Liverpool FC, and was thrilled to learn he would be working with that team, as well as other departments under the Fenway Sports Group.
His specific projects included working on sponsorship agreements for the Harvard-Yale football game, where he was responsible for working on contracts for an assortment of companies who wanted to be represented at the well-known event. He was also heavily involved with the Fenway Summer Concert Series, which brings in artists like Billy Joel and Jimmy Buffet to Fenway Park. He helped draft contracts for the performances.
As the legal intern for Fenway Sports Group and the Boston Red Sox, Daly felt that he was able to put many of the skills he had gained during his time at BU Law to use. It did not take long for his supervisors to notice the arsenal of skills that he came in with. Within the first week of the internship, he was asked to work on contracts—a task rarely handed out so early in the program. He credits the contract–drafting course he took in the Transactional Law Program with helping him successfully complete many of the assignments.
“Being in an environment like [the Fenway Sports Group], gave me an opportunity to work on all different sides of transactional law and even hone my business skills a little bit,” he says.
Daly’s experiences, however was not limited to his work in the office. One of the highlights of his internship was golfing with the head of legal affairs and general counsel for the Red Sox and the general counsel for Liverpool FC. “Those were two days that I’ll remember for a long time,” Daly says. “It was really special.”
Along with the Transactional Law Program, the Entrepreneurship & Intellectual Property Clinic made BU Law the best fit for Daly while deciding which school to attend. He will participate in the clinic during his final semesters at BU Law, working as a student attorney and providing legal counsel to MIT and BU–based entrepreneurs on a wide range of legal issues. Even before starting the clinic, Daly felt not only that he was able to put many of the practical legal skills he learned at BU Law to use in his position with the Red Sox, but was able to translate those skills to all the different departments he was asked to help, including on projects that did not strictly involve legal matters. The summer position helped him solidify his desire to work in corporate law and established a new interest in practicing sports law.
“It was special everyday to go have lunch on the green monster or to walk on the field before the game, all the players taking batting practice,” he says. “It really was an unbelievable summer.”
Reported by Yadira Flores (CAS’19)
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