The longstanding experience in corporate law, private practice and sports, warrants an optimal support, both as attorney as well as mediator, to corporations, sports organizations, sports clubs and individual athletes.

Joost Batelaan is member of the Disciplinary Committee Professional League of the KNVB and mediator, deputy disciplinary judge and legal secretary at the Institute for Sportslaw (ISR). He is mediator at the Dutch Arbitration Institute (NAI). At an international level Joost is mediator of the FIFA Football Tribunal.

Joost is member of several professional umbrella organizations, like the Dutch Bar Association, the Association for Sports Law, the Mediators Federation Netherlands (MfN), the Dutch Mediators Association, the Dutch Association of Mediators Attorneys (NVVMA) and the Platform Business Mediation.

Register of legal areas
Joost Batelaan has registered in the register of legal areas of the Dutch Bar Association as main legal area Employment law, with the sub legal area Employment mediations. As a result of this registration it is every calendar year compulsory to obtain 10 education points according to the respective guidelines of the Dutch Bar Association.