The Playbook Library
Game Plans You Can Hold.
18 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
12 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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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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2 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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