The Playbook Library
Game Plans You Can Hold.
24 plain-language guides from the desk of Leopoldus Law, on the decisions athletes, entertainers, and owners face most. Jump to your section, pick one, and tell us where to send it.
For Athletes
14 Guides
The Athlete, LLC Blueprint
The post-House era, deal structures, and building the entity that lets you sign as a business and keep more of what you earn.
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NIL Deals and the New College Money
What NIL actually means, how the post-House money flows through schools and outside deals, and the clauses that should never survive review.
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The Agent Agreement
The contract athletes read the least is the one that matters most. Who regulates your agent, what the fees really look like, and the terms that should stop you cold.
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Trademarking Your Name and Brand
Your name does two jobs at once. How to build the rights, register them, and park them where they are protected, in the right order and before the breakout.
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The Athlete Estate Plan
This is not really about dying. It is about control: who decides for you when you cannot, and who is protected when you are not there.
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The Athlete Prenup Plan
A prenup is not a bet against your marriage. It is a business plan for the business that is your career, which happens to sit inside your marriage.
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The Athlete Entrepreneur
Capital, a recognizable name, and a network that returns your calls make you a strong founder and investor, and a target. Structure every deal as a transaction, not a favor.
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The International Athlete
The most interesting NIL problems in America belong to athletes who are not American. Why the domestic playbook fails, what the visa allows, and the two-entity model that solves it.
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The Endorsement Deal
An endorsement deal is a license, not a gift. Read it clause by clause from your side of the table: what each term does, where the traps sit, and what to push for.
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The Athlete's Tax Playbook
A pro athlete has one of the most complicated tax situations in the country, and almost none of them know it until the returns arrive. The jock tax, the residency decision, entities, and the deductions most miss.
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Protecting Your Image
Your image is an asset, and for a well-known athlete it may be the most valuable one you own. It is also the one you are least likely to have protected. The rights you hold, and how to assert them.
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Your Likeness in the Age of AI
AI can now manufacture a convincing version of you out of nothing. Why the old right-of-publicity law still applies but no longer covers the whole problem, the new digital-replica laws, and what to do now.
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You Got Traded. Your House Didn't.
You bought the house while you played in one city. Then you got traded, a tenant moved in, and your home quietly became a business titled in your own name. How to move it into an LLC with your lender's consent, so a lawsuit cannot reach the rest of what you own.
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The Real Cost of a Bet
The same phone you study film on is a fully operational sportsbook, and enforcement is no longer theoretical. What the rules actually prohibit, what the penalties are, how reinstatement works, and when a bet becomes a crime.
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4 GuidesTrademarking Your Name and Brand
Your name does two jobs at once. How to build the rights, register them, and park them where they are protected, in the right order and before the breakout.
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The Loan-Out Company
Your career after the career runs through a different structure. What a loan-out is, why it holds up when the tax authorities look, and where it fails.
Get the Playbook →Protecting Your Image
Your image is an asset, and for a well-known athlete it may be the most valuable one you own. It is also the one you are least likely to have protected. The rights you hold, and how to assert them.
Get the Playbook →Your Likeness in the Age of AI
AI can now manufacture a convincing version of you out of nothing. Why the old right-of-publicity law still applies but no longer covers the whole problem, the new digital-replica laws, and what to do now.
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4 Guides
The Parent's Guide
If your young athlete has real value, you are now the most important legal figure in their career. How to protect their money, their name, their eligibility, and their future.
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Owning a Youth Sports Club
Amateur sports are not amateur. The players are. If you own a club, you own a real business, and the law treats it like one whether you do or not. The structure, safety, and paper that protect you.
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Your Club Is Exposed. Here's the Fix.
The coach agreement that was never drafted, the waiver that will not hold up, the player who left for a competing club, the transfer that got flagged. Where clubs actually face exposure, and the structure that absorbs it before it arrives.
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CIF Transfers and Eligibility
The California Interscholastic Federation transfer process can feel like a maze designed to trip you up. The whole process, from the moment you consider a move to the final ruling, and through the appeal if it comes to that.
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3 Guides
Buying and Selling a Team
Buying a team is not like buying a company. The money is the easy part; the partners are the hard part. A map of how franchise ownership actually works.
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Your Employees Aren't What You Think They Are.
A coaching contract that did not plan for a firing, a buyout a court will not enforce, a staffer misclassified as a contractor. The ordinary, expensive employment mistakes sports organizations make, and the contracts and clauses that actually hold.
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The Personal Training & Private Coaching Playbook
Written for the operator: the trainer or coach who decides what to charge, what to sign, what to carry, and whom to hire, without a general counsel down the hall. Plain-language instruction with the underlying authority a lawyer would rely on.
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2 Guides
The Advisor's Guide to Protecting Your Athlete Clients
You are closer to the money and the deals than any lawyer will be, which makes you the person most likely to see a problem first. A field manual for spotting the legal issues, and knowing when to pull in counsel.
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The Athlete Agent & Agency Compliance Playbook
Written for the operator: where to register, what to charge, when to notify a school, and how to avoid a felony, with the statutory and case authority behind every answer, a 50-state licensing table, and the union rules compared side by side.
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