ATTORNEY AT LAW
Soublière Sport Law is a boutique practice specialising exclusively in offering consulting services to both international and domestic clients in the field of sports law. Our expertise encompasses a wide range of disciplinary and commercial areas including integrity, governance, safeguarding, anti-doping, anti-corruption, eligibility, employment, human rights and regulation.
Janie Soublière, the firm’s principal, has proudly served and advised numerous international and domestic clients since 2002.
ARBITRATION
A Chartered Arbitrator with over 15 years of experience in sport dispute resolution, Janie actively sits on a variety of sports arbitration bodies. These currently include the Court of Arbitration for Sport (General and Football Lists) , the Anti-Corruption Panel of the International Tennis Integrity Agency, Zwift E-Sports, Ultimate Fighting Championships, and the Sport Dispute Resolution Centre of Canada (General, Safeguarding and Anti-Doping lists).
Janie holds substantial expertise in sports arbitration, having authored over 350 awards to date in disciplinary and commercial arbitrations related to anti-doping, anti-corruption, safeguarding, eligibility, carding, selection, jurisdiction, breach of contract, provisional measures, etc.
INVESTIGATIONS
Soublière Sport Law has been conducting investigations for over a decade and takes an active role in conducting thorough and balanced investigations into integrity related and safe sport complaints as well as all types of allegations of sport related misconduct.
Janie is an experienced and trained trauma-informed investigator, equipped with the expertise to navigate sensitive situations with care and confidentiality.
Investigations can be conducted in French, English and Spanish.
MENTIONABLES
Janie brings a wealth of athletic and practical sport experience to her legal practice, having earned an NCAA Division 1 tennis scholarship, as well as completed nationally in Canada in tennis, ultimate frisbee and team-handball.
Other mentions:
- Janie was named to the Court of Arbitration for Sport AD Hoc Panels for the 2026 FIFA World Cup and the 2018 PyeongChang Olympic Games.
- Janie regularly guest lectures for International Sport Law Masters programs and University Sport Law courses. This includes ALSS, ITTI, ISDE etc.
- Janie has published various articles in international Sports Law publications, including the CAS Bulletin, the Elgar Encyclopedia of Sports Law, Football Legal, Australia Nexis Lexis, the Turkish Sport law Journal etc.
- In 2024, Janie and Soubliere Sport Law, earned the prestigious recognition of being the first Canadian sports law lawyer ever to be asked contribute to Chambers and Partners Global Practice Guide. She was again the Canadian sports lawyer chosen by Chambers and Partners to contribute in 2025 https://lnkd.in/eQQjyb8N. In 2026 when she chose to co-author the submission and share the honor with others.
- Janie serves as Legal and Governance Officer on the Executive Committee of the Canadian Ski Hall of Fame and Museum.
- Women In Sport Law voted Janie Arbitrator of the Year in 2021 and Lawyer of the Year in 2022 (note: this prize and honor can only be bestowed once).
- Janie proudly mentors 3 young aspiring lawyers as part of the WISLaw mentorship program as well as another as part of the SDRCC Woman’s Arbitration Mentorship Program.