The Spurline Group

About The Spurline Group

The Spurline Group pairs legal advice with governance consulting, working with corporate, not-for-profit, media and technology, and sports and entertainment clients. It describes itself as more than a conventional law firm, drawing on knowledge across law, business, and the non-profit sector to help clients work through major decisions and plan strategically. Its governance work runs alongside its legal practice: governance evaluations and audits, board and director training, advisory board creation, and shareholder and stakeholder consultations, spanning corporate, not-for-profit, and sports governance.

On the legal side, the firm sets out a wide list of practice areas: business, charity and not-for-profit, corporate and commercial, employment and labour, entertainment, media and information technology, copyright, securities, franchise and licensing, dispute resolution, environment and municipal planning, and international business and trade. Its charity and not-for-profit page also describes past work helping federally incorporated not-for-profit corporations with the transition articles and by-laws called for under the Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act, tied to a one-time filing deadline of October 17, 2014, that has since passed. The firm's own language nods to a line from business writer Scott Belsky about constantly fine-tuning how ideas get put into practice, echoed in its motto: "Dream. Build. Optimize."