Centre for Sport and Law Inc. (Canada)

• Privacy
• Business and commercial issues, employment and intellectual property
• Risk management consulting, planning and audits
• Dispute resolution services
• Organizational change
• Review and preparation of governing documents
• Other services
  

• We can conduct a personal information audit of your organization to determine the operational changes you may need to make to be compliant with the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act
• We can prepare privacy protection policies and procedures for your organization
• We can draft clauses to include on applications and forms to advise on the purpose of information collection and to secure consent for its collection
• We offer workshops to educate organizations and to assist them in developing and implementing privacy policies and procedures

• We can review, negotiate and draft contracts and agreements with athletes, agents, suppliers, sponsors and business partners
• We can advise on marketing and sponsorship issues, financing issues, merchandising programs, leasing matters, event management liabilities and insurance matters
• We can help you to protect and exploit your intellectual property rights to maximize your revenues from these increasingly important intangible assets
• We can advise on incorporation and registration of companies, non-profit organizations, trusts, foundations, partnerships and charitable corporations
• Let us help you avoid costly mistakes in the employment area by ensuring you act properly when recruiting, preparing contracts, calculating notice periods, and designing termination and severance packages

• Our risk management services can be as simple as advising a solution to a potential liability problem or as comprehensive as consulting with you to prepare a detailed risk assessment and risk management plan for your organization, program or event
• We don't sell insurance or refer to brokers, but we do insurance reviews and recommendations to ensure that you have the proper type, scope and levels of insurance coverage
• We will draft waiver of liability, assumption of risk and informed consent agreements for your participants, and advise you on the proper methods for their execution
• Consult with us when establishing internal standards, risk management procedures or sanctioning and hosting guidelines

• We can represent your organization in any dispute proceeding, whether relating to selection, discipline, doping, employment or commercial matters
• We can conduct a conflict analysis and advise on the best method for resolving disputes within your organization, and where appropriate, can intervene to try to negotiate acceptable solutions
• We will appoint mediators and arbitrators to help you resolve disputes in a professional, effective and timely manner
• We can advise internal panels or sit on a panel as your appointee
• We can carry out neutral fact-finding investigations using skilled and trained investigators

• We conduct research and surveys to assess members’ and stakeholders’ views and attitudes towards change
• We can serve as facilitators to assist you in organizational change initiatives
• We can help you to design and implement governance changes within your organization
• We offer workshops to improve board effectiveness, clarify board and staff roles and responsibilities, and improve board-staff relations

• We will review and draft bylaws to ensure they provide proper structure and delegation of authority for decision-making
• Let us prepare key policies for you including codes of conduct and policies for discipline, selection, appeals, harassment, conflict of interest, screening, confidentiality and personnel
• We will prepare policy manuals for you, as well as orientation packages and presentations for new board members
• We can assist you in interpreting policy clauses and advising on proper procedures where there is ambiguity in a policy
• Rely upon our plain-writing and clear policy-drafting skills to improve all your governing documents

• We can provide legal opinions on most matters, and can assist you in interpreting legislation, bylaws, policies, rules and penalties
• We can conduct research for you on any area of law or procedure
• We can provide workshops on any of the above subjects for your members, volunteers, board or staff