NIL Legal Education Speaker
Jake
Dippold
Attorney. Former D1 Athlete. College Professor.
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Attorney. Former D1 Athlete. College Professor.
Book Jake to Come Teach
Contracts get signed without being read. Tax obligations go unaddressed until they become a real problem. Intellectual property rights get transferred away permanently, often without the athlete realizing it. These are not rare exceptions. They are common outcomes when athletes move through the NIL space without proper legal education.
North Point NIL Law exists to change that. Not for the elite athlete who already has a full advisory team. For the athlete who is signing their first deals, building their brand, and making decisions that will follow their name for years to come.
"I know what it means to compete at the Division One level. And I know what athletes do not know about the contracts they are signing."
Jake was a Division One pitcher at Wofford College, a SoCon Champion, a two-year cabinet member on the team leadership council, and a four-time Academic Honor Roll recipient. He competed at the same level as the athletes he now educates.
He is not an outsider explaining the rules. He is a former athlete who went to law school, returned to the college sports world as a professor, and built a platform to give athletes what he wishes had existed when he was competing.
As an Adjunct Professor at the University of South Carolina Sumter, Jake teaches college-aged students every semester. He knows how they think, how they learn, and what it takes for a message to actually land in the room.
Jake Dippold grew up competing. Four years as a Division One baseball player at Wofford College, a SoCon Championship, two years as a cabinet member on the team leadership council, and four Academic Honor Roll recognitions. He knows what it means to be a college athlete managing academics, competition, and an identity that extends beyond the field. That experience is not a talking point. It is the foundation of why athletes in the room trust what he has to say.
He took that foundation to Elon School of Law, graduating as a Dean Scholar and Leadership Fellow. Today Jake practices Business Law and Commercial Real Estate in South Carolina. His entire professional life is built on contracts, negotiation, entity structure, and protecting people from agreements they did not fully understand before signing. He reads these documents every day. He knows where the traps are, and he knows how to explain them clearly to someone who has never seen one before.
As an Adjunct Professor of Political Science at the University of South Carolina Sumter, Jake teaches college-aged students every semester. He has stood in front of that audience hundreds of times. He understands how they think, what makes them tune out, and what makes something actually stick.
North Point NIL Law is the convergence of all three: the athlete who lived it, the attorney who understands it, and the professor who can teach it.
To be clear: this is not an agency. Jake is not looking to solicit deals or represent athletes. The sole purpose is education — giving athletes a working understanding of contracts, negotiation, entity structure, taxes, and how to protect their name, image, and likeness before problems arise. The athletes who need this most are the ones who will never hear it anywhere else.
I have sat through a lot of NIL presentations. Most of them feel like a legal disclaimer being read out loud. Jake was different. He walked our athletes through actual contract language they had already seen and explained what it meant in terms they could actually use. Our athletes were asking questions the whole time. That does not happen.
I was not sure how a legal education session was going to land with our group. These are athletes. They are not sitting still for a lecture. But the whole thing was back and forth from the start. Jake was pulling out real deal scenarios, asking them what they would do, letting them work through it. By the end our athletes were bringing up their own situations and asking specific questions. A few of them came up to me afterward and said it was the most useful session we had done all year.
What I appreciated was that he did not talk down to our athletes. He treated them like adults who were capable of understanding this stuff if someone just explained it clearly. The tax piece especially. My athletes had no idea they were considered self-employed the moment they signed their first deal. That alone was worth having him in.
Whether you are looking for a keynote, a workshop, or a custom format built around your athletes, reach out and let's talk. Jake speaks nationally in person and virtually to programs at every level.