Baseball Players’ Union Reshuffles Legal Ranks After Labor Deal

The Major League Baseball Players Association named a new general counsel and promoted the lawyer who negotiated the deal that ended this year’s lockout in a series of personnel moves announced on Wednesday.

The union elevated deputy general counsel Matthew Nussbaum to general counsel, succeeding Ian Penny, who will become a senior adviser to Tony Clark, the union’s executive director and a former player.

Bruce Meyer, a former partner at Weil, Gotshal & Manges who has been senior director for collective bargaining and legal for the labor union representing MLB players, has been promoted to deputy executive director.

Meyer took ...