Lawyers across the country pitch in to kick off Canada’s first pro women’s soccer league – National Magazine Lawyers across the country pitch in to kick off Canada’s first pro women’s soccer league – National Magazine

Osler Financial Services partner Joyce Bernasek is among the Canadian lawyers helping to launch the Northern Super League, a professional women’s soccer league, and its teams as they kick off their inaugural season this month. Joyce’s daughters play in the same soccer league where the founders of AFC Toronto met, and after a client connected her with one of them, she was asked to help get the team off the ground.

“I was very excited to be part of something from scratch here in Canada for women’s professional athletics,” Joyce tells the Canadian Bar Association’s National Magazine.

“I think it also resonated with me because we have a big startup program at my firm for emerging companies.”

Joyce and the firm began advising on the team’s incorporation papers, investment documents, intellectual property, contracts, sponsorships and employment agreements.

“We started out pro bono, and it has shifted as the team has grown and evolved into work that we charge them for.”

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