LawInSport & SLAM are pleased to announce Presenting Partner: Kellerhals Carrard

LawInSport and the Sports Law Arbitration Moot (SLAM) are pleased to announce that Kellerhals Carrard has come aboard as the Presenting Partner, the highest level of support for SLAM.

The agreement commences with the 2025 edition of SLAM, the finals of which will be held in Lausanne, Switzerland, at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), on April 10 & 11, 2025. LawInSport will also be hosting its first International Dispute Resolution in Sport Conference on April 11, 2025 alongside the Grand Finals of SLAM.

“We are excited to have our vision for SLAM be shared by one of the leading firms in international sports dispute resolution,” said Sean Cottrell, CEO & Co-Founder of LawInSport, “We are delighted that Kellerhals Carrard, as Presenting Partner, support this not-for-profit initiative. The significance of the competition and the value of LawInSport’s approach of organisational and editorial independence is also recognised by Kellerhals Carrard. This invaluable support will create even more opportunities for students, help develop the wider international sports dispute resolution industry and evolve into a multi-day event that celebrates and brings the industry together. This sponsorship demonstrates that SLAM is an important venue for students to be seen and known by lawyers in the sports law industry.”

“Training young lawyers, and lawyers to be, to become effective sports law advocates is important to us as a law firm, and to the development of the sports dispute resolution industry,” said David Casserly SC, Chair of the Kellerhals Carrard Sports Law Practice Group. “LawInSport have created a fantastic competition which is truly a wonderful opportunity for students across the world, and which has already become a fixture in the Sports Law community. We share their vision for SLAM, and we are looking forward to contributing to the growth of this top-quality event.”

About SLAM

The SLAM is a not-for-profit, student moot competition, organised to promote greater knowledge of the values and rules of international sports arbitration, the go-to dispute resolution mechanism in the sector.

SLAM provides students from around the world the opportunity to:

Develop and showcase their legal and advocacy skills before the world’s leading arbitrators and practitioners virtually and in-person;
Gain real world experience of international sports arbitration under the leading procedural rules;
Receive complimentary training on drafting written submissions and advocacy from some of the world’s leading advocates and arbitrators in world sport.

Students compete for the chance to win:

£1500 for the winners of the competition
£1000 for the runners-up of the competition

The competition welcomes students from all over the world and strives to be diverse in its student and judging base. Deserving students are provided with financial assistance for both the registration fee and the costs of appearing in the in-person rounds of the competition (if they advance), where there is demonstrated financial need, to ensure that financial barriers do not prevent students from receiving the exposure to sports law through the competition.

It is a non-profit initiative that brings together people from around the world to support and provide opportunities for students to connect, gain valuable experience that will help them in their career in law and sport. SLAM has seen:

230+ teams from 30+ countries entering the competition
100+ CAS Arbitrators & 100+ advocates, have volunteered their time and expertise to help judge the written submissions.

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About Kellerhals Carrard

Kellerhals Carrard is one of the most specialised sports law firms in the world. Its activities cover all areas of sports law, including litigation and commercial matters. The firm and its lawyers are consistently ranked as leaders in the field of sports law in international legal directories (Chambers and Partners, Legal 500, Who's Who Legal).

The firm has unrivalled experience in resolving sports disputes as one of the most experienced and active firms before the CAS, particularly in football, regulatory and anti-doping matters. The firm is uniquely qualified to act before the CAS, as it combines expertise in the procedural law applicable to the CAS (Swiss law) with experienced lawyers whose mother tongue is one of the CAS official languages (English, French, Spanish).

Kellerhals Carrard has truly unique expertise in the field of sports administration, with decades of experience advising some of the world’s leading sports organisations and teams, as well as individuals, on their commercial programs (host city agreements, sponsorship, media, promotion and marketing, licensing, image rights, etc.) and on their regulatory and governance issues.

About LawInSport

LawInSport is the world leading sports law knowledge hub and global community that provides practically focused expert analysis and commentary on the latest legal developments in sport. LawInSport collaborates with our community of over 30,000 lawyers, sports executives, sports administrators, athletes, coaches, academics and students and their organisations helping them to “understand the rules of the game”™