NEWS RELEASE – November 26, 2009

 

SIRC and the Centre for Sport and Law announce partnership

 

(November 26, 2009) – The Sport Information Resource Centre (SIRC) and the Centre for Sport and Law (CSL) have joined forces to offer quality and relevant educational programming to Canadian sport administrators. Topics for the 2010 calendar year include practical and expert-driven advice on management issues including strength-based planning, risk management, dispute resolution, intellectual property, and social media.

“As SIRC continues to focus on connecting sport leaders with helpful and relevant resources, we are pleased to announce a partnership that will see us collaborating to provide professional development opportunities for sport leaders at our office in Ottawa and our new satellite location in Toronto,” said Debra Gassewitz, President and CEO of SIRC.

“We are thrilled to collaborate with SIRC in offering relevant and practical workshops and seminars that sport administrators can apply immediately as they manage issues, seize opportunities, and navigate their ever-changing and complex external environments,” stated Rachel Corbett, one of the founding partners of the CSL.

This partnership emerged out of the positive experience both organizations had when collaborating on two unique workshops in 2008 – “Preparing for Beijing: Are You Dispute Ready?” in April of that year, and “Not Your Normal Risk Management Workshop” in June. Registration for the 2010 workshops will begin in December and will be coordinated online via SIRC. The partnership will see four to six workshops offered per year at each location, on leading–edge topics relevant to sport administrators.

To kick off the partnership, the first session will take place in Toronto on December 8, 2009. This workshop, entitled “The 12 minute lawyer” is a fast paced-paced presentation that moves quickly thought hot topics and issues of the day. To register for this workshop, visit www.sirc.ca/seminar_series.

The Centre for Sport and Law is a consulting group founded in 1992, offering services and practical resources on planning, governance, risk management, and legal issues to the Canadian sport community. The Centre is comprised of co-founders Hilary Findlay and Rachel Corbett, partner Steve Indig, associate Dina Bell-Laroche, and administrator Robin Witty. Visit www.sportlaw.ca for more information.

With over 6.5 million pages of sport related research dating as far back as the 1700’s and encompassing over 62 different languages, SIRC is the world’s leading sport resource centre. Based in Ottawa, SIRC is a not-for-profit corporation that serves the sporting community through the comprehensive collections of sport related material, qualified indexing and research services, and the development and delivery of numerous programs that inspire, acknowledge and celebrate academic and sport excellence. Visit www.sirc.ca for more information.

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For more information, please contact Dina Bell-Laroche at 613-591-1246 or 613-294-4118 or Kim Sparling at 613-231-7472

 

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