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.
OUR TEAM
Adam Klevinas
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.
Cristy Cooper
Cristy Cooper (Nurse), B.A. (Hons.), J.D., LL.M., was called to the Ontario Bar in 2018. Cristy has broad public and private sector experience and has appeared as counsel in matters before various levels of court and administrative tribunals, including the Sport Dispute Resolution Centre of Canada.
Cristy began her legal career with a focus on litigation and management-side employment and human rights law. She continues to represent sport organizations in various sport-related disputes and advises on contractual, policy, governance, and regulatory matters. Cristy also acts as an independent neutral to receive and administer safe sport complaints and appeals and to adjudicate internal disciplinary and appeal processes.
A member of the University of Guelph’s OUA-Championship basketball team, Cristy went on to become an Olympian and six-time world medalist in the sport of rowing. She is a former Rowing Canada athlete of the year and a member of the Halton Hills Sports Hall of Fame.
