In this episode of the State Bar of Texas Podcast, host Rocky Dhir welcomes two attorneys from the Texas professional sports scene: Eunice Nakamura, executive vice president, general counsel for the Texas Rangers Major League Baseball team, and James O’Sullivan, general counsel for the Major League Soccer team FC Dallas. They provide an inside look at the dynamic day-to-day experiences of lawyers specializing in the business of sports. Nakamura and O’Sullivan candidly share their professional paths, detailing the opportunities and career choices that led them to their current roles.
Eunice Nakamura is in her second season with the Texas Rangers after being hired as senior vice president and general counsel in February 2025. She joined the Rangers, an MLB professional baseball team based in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, after serving as chief legal officer/general counsel and corporate secretary for the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, Inc., in Dallas.
James O’Sullivan was appointed in January 2022 as FC Dallas’ first-ever inhouse general counsel. He previously served as assistant general counsel and director of Land Administration for Dallas-based Unity Hunt, Inc., the family office of the late Lamar Hunt, whose family assumed ownership of FC Dallas—then the Dallas Burn—from Major League Soccer in 2003.
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