SPORT LAW
ADVOCACY
& CONSULTING
Sportlex delivers specialized expertise in sports law, providing comprehensive legal solutions for national and provincial/territorial sports organizations, national anti-doping organizations and international federations. We ensure your legal needs are met with precision and professionalism in anti-doping matters, safe sport and team selection disputes, policy development and review, as well as contractual matters.
Sportlex provides legal services in the following areas:
01. Disciplinary & selection disputes
02. Selection policy review & drafting
03. Anti-doping litigation & rules review
04. Safe sport guidance and policy development
05. Contract review & drafting
Excellence in Sports Law
We come from sport and understand the business of sport organizations and the challenges they face. We are there to help whenever you need us.
Meet our Founder
Adam Klevinas, B.A., B.C.L, LL.B founded Sportlex in 2020 and has been a member of the Quebec Bar since 2012. His vision was to create a specialized practice dedicated to serving the unique legal needs of the Canadian and international sports community.
Throughout his legal career, Adam has developed a specialization at the international, national and provincial level in team selection and carding disputes, anti-doping and safe sport litigation, as well as disciplinary matters. In parallel, he has developed significant experience reviewing and drafting selection policies, anti-doping rules, safe sport policies and other sport-specific policies.
Adam was a member of Canada’s national sprint kayak team, after which he started his legal career as a litigation lawyer at McCarthy Tétrault LLP before joining the World Anti-Doping Agency in 2014 as in-house legal counsel.
