Are you interested in Sports Law? Gain the essentials. Understand all the specific areas that you will need to master Sports Law. Analyse everything from the issues in Esports, intellectual issues in engaging talent and brand ambassadors, the challenges in the player contract and disrepute concerns. Examine the concerns of concussion in sport plus the current concern of the ethical use of athlete data. A not to miss event.

Presenters

Margot Foster AM OLY, BA LLB
Margot Foster AM BA LLB OLY has a storied background in sport as an elite athlete, lawyer, director and educator. Margot began her legal life practising mainly criminal law, running her own practice, acting for some notorious Melbourne identities requiring numerous visits to centres of incarceration around the state to visit her various villains. At the same time she was rowing at an elite level in Victoria and training for the Olympic Games in Los Angeles in 1984 at which she won Australia’s first women’s rowing medal in the coxed four. When at university she had taken on her first board and leadership roles in her residential college and, once she took up rowing in third year, with Melbourne University Ladies’ Rowing Club Committee as it then was. After the Olympics (which was followed by world championships and a Commonwealth Games gold medal in 1986), her board career began with her appointment to the inaugural AOC Athletes’ Commission. Since then she has held numerous roles with Australian Sports Commission, New Zealand Sports Commission, International Rowing Federation, Australian Olympic Committee advisory committees, Rowing Australia, Rowing Victoria, Melbourne 1996 Olympic Bid, Australian University Sport, Gymnastics Australia, Melbourne University Sport and a diverse range of other sports bodies. In addition she has been on the boards of Presbyterian Ladies' College Burwood, Trinity College University of Melbourne, National Parks Advisory Committee, and Great Ocean Road Coast Committee among others. Margot is presently Vice President of Motorsport Australia, Chair Sports Environment Alliance, Advisory Council Member Sport Integrity Australia and Chair World Athletics Election Oversight Panel. Since happily giving the law away Margot now works with individual directors, business and sports organisations on their governance programs, processes and policies and created her own online governance training course, launched in 2020, focussed on the very practical things directors need to know and understand to be effective at the board table. Margot was made a Member of the Order of Australia in 2015, received the ANZSLA Contribution to Sport Award in 2011, was named a Fellow at Trinity College University of Melbourne in 2017 and is a member of the Rowing Victoria Hall of Fame.


Calli Tsipidis, Legal Counsel, Fox Sports
Calli Tsipidis is Legal Counsel at Foxtel Group, working across the FOX SPORTS Australia, Kayo Sports, BINGE, Flash and Foxtel brands. She advises the sports content and production, sales, partnerships, digital product and marketing teams, and was a key stakeholder supporting the build and launch of Flash, BINGE, Kayo Freebies and Pay-Per-View on Kayo. In 2021, Calli was a Finalist across multiple categories in the Lawyers Weekly Australian Law Awards, Corporate Counsel Awards and 30 Under 30 Awards, and took home both the Rising Star of the Year - In House and In House Lawyer of the Year at the Women in Law Awards. Calli is the current Chair of the Communications and Media Law Association’s Young Lawyers Committee.


Mathew Jessep, Principal Lawyer, Game Legal
Mathew Jessep is a commercial and corporate lawyer and business consultant with specialist skills and experience in Sports, Esports, Media and Entertainment, acting for clients in Australia, New Zealand, Japan, North America, the UK, and Europe. Leveraging off of more than a decade of experience as a lawyer and a career in marketing and brand management before that, Mat established Game Legal and Game Consulting in 2019 to deliver focused legal, governance, and strategic commercial advice to clients involved in Sports, Esports, and Pop Culture - Gaming, Media, Tech, Internet, Brands & IP, Entertainment, TV, Music, Film, Art, & Fashion - as well as to Businesses and for new Start-Ups. The bulk of Mat's practice is in the field of sports law, acting for National Sporting Organisations, State Sporting Organisations, sponsors, broadcasters, leagues and competitions, athletes, and major event operators. In the fast-growing esports sector, Mat is a pioneer and leading lawyer and consultant where he acts for clients with interests in leagues and teams in Europe, North America, Australia, and Asia. Mat regularly speaks to the media and the industry on issues and opportunities in sport and esports, and teaches as a Senior Fellow at Melbourne Law School where he developed and coordinates the 'Esports and the Law' postgraduate course and also as a casual academic at the University of Technology Sydney where he teaches the 'Sports Law' subject to undergraduates in the Faculty of Law.


David Maddocks, Partner, Perry Maddocks Trollope Lawyers
David has been a practising lawyer in Melbourne for over 25 years, working primarily in medical and sports law. He graduated in Law in 1996 and won the Supreme Court Exhibition Prize for his Honours Thesis on serious injury claims in Victoria. He is an accredited specialist in personal injury with the Law Institute of Victoria. He is the co-chair of the LIV Sports Law Committee and a Tribunal Member on the AFL’s Grievance Tribunal. He is a former Chair of Cricket Victoria and is currently a Board Member of Cricket Australia. He acted for one of the parties in the AFL-Essendon Football Club supplements matter. Prior to practise in law, he worked as a neuropsychologist in brain injury rehabilitation at the Royal Children’s Hospital and the Epworth Hospital. He completed a Ph.D. at the University of Melbourne in 1996, investigating the cognitive effects and recovery after concussion in Australian Rules footballers. Aspects of his research have been adopted by international sporting organisations including the IOC, NFL and FIFA.


Tim Fuller, Special Counsel, Dentons
Tim is a Special Counsel in the Corporate Advisory team. With extensive experience in corporate and commercial with a sports law focus, he regularly advises professional athletes, clubs, governing bodies, athlete associations and corporate sponsors. Tim is well-versed and practised in matters involving contract, agency, intellectual property, anti-doping policy and rule disputes. Tim has spent time overseas in an active role with professional sports administrations and leading universities including working in the UK, France, Norway, UAE and the United States. Tim has acted for numerous leading Australian Olympians and professional athletes in international jurisdictions. He has written and taught sport law courses at six leading Australian universities and is completing the course profile of a proposed new course at the University of Newcastle, AgriLaw.


Ana Croger, General Manager Legal and Business Affairs, Swimming Australia
Ana is a senior sports administrator with specialist expertise in legal, governance, integrity and compliance systems, processes and policies. Ana holds degrees in business and law with a current Supreme Court of Queensland practicing certificate and is a fellow of the Governance Institute of Australia. Ana is a recipient of the Sports Australia women in leadership grant and is a nationally accredited mediator. Ana has a passion for engaging and developing lasting, positive relationship with diverse stakeholders. Ana has experience in leading teams through complex issues prioritising managing and delivering outcomes that fulfil commercial and strategic priorities. Ana has held Board and committee positions and also has detailed experience in sports and event specific: Board and company governance; Integrity including member protection, anti-doping, competition manipulation, child safety and complaints handling; Diverse stakeholder management in large member based organisations within the federated model of sport; Corporate operations including finance function, Technology and Digital and People and Capability; Funding and commercial agreements; Team selection and other internal policies; and Company secretariat functions.


Juanita Maiden, Senior Associate, Mullins Lawyers
Juanita is an experienced and commercial lawyer, with expertise in sports law and a background in commercial law and wills and estates. Having started her legal career in 1997, Juanita went on to hold various corporate roles before returning to the legal industry in 2009. Juanita has always had a particular interest and passion for sports law, having held the role of CEO at a National Basketball League Club for several years, including going on to take a position on the board. She combines her extensive practical experience with her unique knowledge of sporting organisations to help her clients. Juanita advises clients in the sports and events industry on commercial agreements, governance and constitutions, contracts and disputes, disciplinary issues and complaints handling, and tribunal hearings and appeals Furthering her commitment to the sports industry, Juanita currently serves on the Boards of Queensland Cricket and South East Qld Rugby League and as Chairperson of the AFL Qld Tribunal. She is a member of the Australian + NZ Sports Law Association and the National Sports Tribunal Legal Assistance Panel and has guest lectured at the University of Queensland in sports law.