As these lawyers learned more and more about approaches taken by other lawyers representing teams athletes leagues players associations media companies endorsed product manufacturers etc they were better able to educate inform and prepare their clients for some of the more difficult aspects of being involved in professional sports. Sports participants are generally still responsible for their on field actions in canada under both civil and criminal law criminal liability for on field actions is determined by the nature of. Vandellos sports law represents athletes clubs national associations agents and coaches in front of the different dispute resolution bodies and the court of arbitration for sport in lausanne sw. The sports industry is vast in scope has millions of athletes but less than 10000 us major league and top level individual sport professional athletes and spectators and generates billions of dollars annually in fact it is debatable whether sports law like cyber law or healthcare law is actually a discrete area of law or merely the application of many areas of law to a unique