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Legal Insights
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Think NIL Is Just for Big Brands? Here’s How Small Businesses Can Win Too
This is not legal advice, but general information. Since 2021, NCAA athletes have been allowed to monetize their personal brand through NIL deals. For small businesses, this creates a unique opportunity where you can connect with college athletes whose audiences overlap with your customers, often without a huge marketing budget. That said actually finding and…
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The Fast Track to Ineligibility: What Every Student Athlete Needs to Know About NIL Compliance
This is not legal advice, but general information. Whether you’re helping student athletes land NIL deals or signing them yourself, there’s no doubt that it’s an exciting time to be part of college sports. Student athletes can now earn money, build their own brands, and open doors that didn’t exist before. But every deal comes…
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Oregon NIL Compliance: A Practical Guide for Student Athletes
This is not legal advice, but general information. The last four years of college sports have seen a wave of new regulators enter the NIL scene. These authoritative bodies range from schools, to special clearing houses, to the Executive Office, and each has their own set of mandates or guidance to go along with them.…
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NIL Compliance Made Simple: NIL Go, Denials, and Arbitration Explained
This is not legal advice, but general information. IntroductionThe House Settlement brought sweeping changes to college sports. Some of those changes are easy to spot, like backpay for former athletes and new roster limits for current ones. Others are less obvious but just as important. Chief among them are two new mechanisms that work hand…
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NIL Valuations: Understanding Your Worth in the New College Sports Economy
An NIL valuation is, in essence, an estimate of how much an athlete’s personal brand is worth on the open market.
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Executive Order Meets Amateurism: Unpacking Trump’s NIL Order
What President Trump’s executive order might mean for the NIL landscape moving forward.
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House Settlement: Backpay Rights for Former College Athletes
Former Division I student athletes who played a college sport between the years of 2016-2024 may be entitled to settlement payouts from a $2.8 billion NIL settlement fund.