The Talent Is the Business. We protect it like one.
Gordon & Co Legal is the Atlanta entertainment practice of Brooke Gordon, Esq. — for the people who make the culture, in the city where so much of the music, the film, and the moment is actually made.
I’m Brooke Gordon, Esq. I started in media, learned contracts inside global brands, and now I sit on the talent side of the table. Producers, artists, athletes, and creators come to me before they sign — not after they wish they hadn’t.
We’ve got the —
Points, publishing, and proper credit — papered before the record ever charts.
Practice Areas
Built Around
your Career
Four industries, one point of view: the talent side of the table. I speak producer, brand, and platform — because I’ve worked in all three rooms. The key services are listed on each block; expand one for the full list.
Flagship — Producer & Recording Agreements
This is home base. Points on the master and net artist royalties, publishing splits, sample clearance, “Produced by…” credit, SoundExchange and letters of direction, sync approvals — and advances vs. recoupment explained in plain English before you sign, not after the statement arrives.
I paper the splits before the song ever charts.
Music
For producers and artists whose names — and splits — belong on paper correctly from day one. If it touches points, publishing, or credit, I read it twice.
Key services: Producer agreements · Publishing & splits · “Produced by…” credit · SoundExchange / LOD
Your name is the asset — I treat it that way.
Sports & NIL
For athletes turning a name, image, and following into a business that outlasts the season — with usage, term, and exclusivity spelled out clearly.
Key services: NIL deals · Endorsements · Sponsorships · Brand partnerships
If a brand wants your face, I read the usage twice.
Fashion
For models, designers, and creators signing with brands that want their face — on their terms, for the term and territory actually agreed.
Key services: Model & creator deals · Brand campaigns · Licensing · Usage rights
Releases, options, credits — I catch what the room misses.
TV & Film
For actors and on-screen talent who need every release, credit, and right read before the cameras roll — in Atlanta’s studios and beyond.
Key services: Talent agreements · Releases · Rights & clearance · Options
Across Every Deal
- Contract Review & Negotiation
- Rights & Clearance
- Sponsorships & Brand Activations
- Licensing
- Plain-English Deal Breakdowns
- Mediation
See your matter here? Bring it to me before the signature.
Book a Consultation →Founder’s Note · From my paper, “Two Percent and Holding”
Why I Built
This Firm
“Two percent isn’t a statistic to me. It’s the room I walk into — and the reason I built my own.”
I didn’t come to law by accident. I came up at Hampton wanting to be in the room where culture is made — telling stories, chasing the interview, learning how the moment gets built. Then I learned the part nobody puts on camera: the contracts decide who gets paid for that culture. So I went and learned contracts — inside the brands, inside the platforms — and I built Gordon & Co Legal so talent who look like the culture can get counsel who actually understand it.
In my paper “Two Percent and Holding,” I write about a profession where only about 2% of lawyers are Black women. That number is not a talking point for me — it shaped every room I trained in, negotiated in, and was underestimated in. This firm is my answer: the firm I could not find — sophisticated, prepared, culture-fluent counsel in Atlanta, a city where so much of the music and film work my clients create is actually made. No pity story here. Just preparation, taste, and paperwork done right. Holding the line, and holding the door.
Source note: the “two percent” figure is as framed in my paper, “Two Percent and Holding,” and is consistent with American Bar Association reporting on the share of Black women in the legal profession. It is offered as context for why I built this practice — not as a credential.
Meet Brooke
Broadcast Roots.
Brand Rooms.
Your Side Now.
I started in media, not law. My arc — broadcast → brands → boardroom → Bar — is exactly why clients trust me with the deal.
“I spent years inside the rooms where these deals get drafted. Now I sit on your side of them.”Brooke Gordon, Esq. — Founder, Gordon & Co Legal
Education: Hampton University, B.A. Broadcast Journalism (minor Psychology), 2014 · Emory University Juris Master, 2021 · John Marshall Law School, J.D.
At Hampton University, broadcast journalism taught me how a moment is made. Contracts work taught me who gets paid for it — and who gets left out of the paperwork. So I learned the paperwork properly: years inside global brands and platforms, working on sponsorships, licensing, talent releases, and rights — the same kinds of agreements my clients sign today, from the other side of the table.
Now, at Gordon & Co Legal in Midtown Atlanta, I bring that inside knowledge home: counsel for producers, artists, athletes, actors, models, and creators — rooted in the culture, fluent in the business.
I’ve sat on the other side of your deal.
At Coca-Cola, in Global Marketing Partnerships, I saw how a brand values a sponsorship, what an activation actually needs, and where the money moves. At Meta, clearing music rights and talent releases, I saw what breaks when the paperwork is sloppy. I don’t guess how the other side thinks. I’ve been the other side — and now that experience works for you.
The Journey
Hampton to Peachtree
Hampton University — Broadcast Journalism
B.A. in Broadcast Journalism, minor in Psychology. An HBCU foundation and a storyteller’s eye: how culture is made, who tells it, and why the room matters.
Senior Paralegal, Global Marketing Partnerships
Sponsorships, brand activations including Coachella, licensing, and procurement. The brand side of the table — valuations, deliverables, and how sponsors decide what talent is worth.
Entertainment Paralegal / Rights & Clearance Specialist
Dec. 2024–Oct. 2025, remote from Atlanta. Music rights, talent releases, IP, and emerging / metaverse content. I cleared the rights — I know what a clean release has to say.
Southern Company — Commercial Contracts
Complex commercial agreements handled with precision and no shortcuts — the discipline that makes entertainment paperwork hold up when money is on the line.
Licensed Attorney + Registered Neutral
Admitted to the Georgia Bar in September 2025. Georgia Registered Neutral (Jan. 2025), mediating general civil cases in DeKalb County Magistrate Court.
Gordon & Co Legal
My talent-side entertainment practice in Midtown Atlanta — music, sports & NIL, fashion, TV & film. Transactional, clear, and built on relationships.
The Mediator’s Edge
Deals That Don’t
Burn Bridges
Entertainment is a relationship business. Labels, producers, and brands have to work together after the ink dries — so I negotiate like a mediator: hard on the terms, careful with the relationship.
Plain English, always.
You’ll understand every clause before you sign it — what it pays you, what it costs you, and what it controls. Advances vs. recoupment, points vs. percentages, usage vs. ownership: if I can’t explain it simply, we don’t sign it yet.
Negotiate like a mediator.
As a Georgia Registered Neutral mediating in DeKalb County Magistrate Court, I hear what each side actually needs — not just what they’re asking for. That is how you get better terms without torching the room you’ll need next album, next season, next campaign.
Direct, warm, on your side.
I’ll tell you when a deal is good, when it’s not, and when to walk. My clients are talent — not labels, leagues, brands, or studios. Relationships are currency in this business. I protect yours like I protect your royalties.
Bring me the deal before the signature — that’s when your leverage is real.
Start With a ConsultationWhat Happens Next
Three Steps
to Working Together
No guessing, no cold email into the void. Here’s exactly how a matter starts at Gordon & Co Legal.
Consultation
A scheduled working session — up to 60 minutes — where we walk through your deal, offer, or contract together. Bring the paperwork you’re staring at; you’ll leave knowing where you stand and what to do next.
Conflict Check + Engagement
Before any work begins, I run a conflict check. If we’re clear, you sign an engagement letter that spells out the scope and terms — that’s when the attorney-client relationship starts.
Review / Negotiation Begins
With the engagement signed, I get to work: reviewing, redlining, and negotiating your deal — in plain English, on the talent side of the table.
What to Have Ready
- The deal, offer, or contract you’re staring at
- Any deadline — for example, if the label needs an answer by Friday
- A few sentences, in general terms, about what you need
Start with the intake form below. You’ll hear back about next steps and scheduling.
Quick Answers
Before You
Book
The four things people most often want to know before they reach out — answered plainly, up front.
No. Contacting Gordon & Co Legal LLC — by the intake form or by email — does not create an attorney-client relationship. That relationship starts only after a conflict check is complete and an engagement letter is signed.
It’s a scheduled working session of up to 60 minutes. Bring the deal, the offer, or the contract you’re staring at — we walk through it together, and you leave knowing where you stand and what to do next. See how working together starts.
Not yet. Please do not send confidential documents or sensitive details until after a conflict check is complete and an engagement letter is signed. A short, general description of your matter is all that’s needed at this stage.
The firm is Atlanta based, talent everywhere — 600 W Peachtree NW, Midtown. Send the intake and say where you are; you’ll hear back about next steps and scheduling.
Consultation
We’ve Got
the Talent.
That’s You.
Gordon & Co Legal is built for talent — producers, artists, athletes, and creators who want the deal explained clearly and negotiated properly. A consultation is a scheduled working session of up to 60 minutes: bring the deal, the offer, or the contract you’re staring at.
Solo practice: Gordon & Co Legal LLC is the Atlanta entertainment practice of Brooke Gordon, Esq. When you reach out, you’re reaching me directly.
Atlanta, GA 30308
For Referral Partners
Gordon & Co Legal welcomes referrals and co-counsel conversations. If you have a producer, artist, athlete, or creator who needs talent-side counsel in Atlanta — send them my way, and I’ll take it from there with care.
Referrals start the same way: contacting or referring someone to Gordon & Co Legal LLC does not create an attorney-client relationship, and no confidential documents or sensitive details should be sent until after a conflict check is complete and an engagement letter is signed.