Jacobs Counsel
For those building
what’s next.
A boutique law firm for businesses and the people behind them.
We handle contracts, transactions, and the legal decisions that come with running a company. Come to us for a specific project or work with us as your ongoing outside counsel.
Focused experience in gaming, sports, and entertainment.
Jamee Ganal, Executive Assistant
Start with Jamee for a brief conversation about what you need, your timing, and the next steps.
Our work.
Ongoing business counsel, contracts, and transactions, with focused work in gaming, sports, and entertainment.
Building something that doesn’t fit neatly into a category? Tell us about it.
Meet the firm
The people behind the work.
Our lawyers handle ongoing business counsel and defined legal projects, with experience in gaming, sports, and entertainment. You work with the attorney responsible for your matter, supported by a team that helps keep communication, follow-up, and billing organized.
Legal Team
Operations & Client Experience
Drew Jacobs played basketball at Boston College and now directs Seton Hall Law’s Annual Gaming Law Bootcamp. He is admitted in New York, New Jersey and Ohio.
Sam Basile brings more than three decades of gaming legal and executive experience, including work involving GeoComply, Aristocrat Technologies and Bragg Gaming Group.
Caitlin Hannibal is a former professional boxer and WNBPA Certified Player Agent. Her legal experience includes Orrick, Cadwalader and in-house work at iN DEMAND.
Client perspective.
5.0 on GoogleAs an entrepreneur building my own business, I am grateful to have Drew as my trusted legal counsel. His work is prompt, thorough, professional, and relatable.
Drew and his team are the best of the best. Honest, hardworking, and reliable. They've handled a wide range of legal projects on our behalf and they always deliver quality work - on time.
Two ways to work together.
Ongoing Counsel
Bring us your customer and vendor contracts, negotiations, and company questions as they arise. Your legal team builds context over time, with scope, staffing, and fees agreed in writing.
Defined Projects
Help with a contract, transaction, legal opinion or another specific need. We agree on the work and deliverables, with the wider business or career context in view.
What happens next
- Fit call with Jamee — Share what you are working on, your timing and the help you need.
- Conflicts and scope — The team reviews fit and conflicts, then proposes the scope, staffing and fees.
- Written engagement — The signed agreement sets out what we will do and on what terms.
Free legal guides
Start with a clearer picture.
Practical guides for gaming operators, athletes and growing companies. Explore the issues and questions to bring to counsel.
Gaming Law
Gaming Compliance 101
Understand skill, chance, sweepstakes and the compliance questions behind a gaming launch.
10 pages · PDF
NIL/Sports
NIL and Revenue Sharing Guide
Understand school payments, outside NIL deals and the contract questions that affect an athlete’s earnings.
12 pages · PDF
Startups
The Startup Legal Playbook
Compare legal support models and prepare your growing company for contracts, funding and recurring legal work.
10 pages · PDF
Questions, answered.
Can Jacobs Counsel serve as ongoing outside counsel?
Yes. Jacobs Counsel serves as ongoing outside counsel to companies across industries. Recurring outside-counsel work may be hourly, retainer-based, or hybrid. Every engagement is principal-led, qualified attorneys are assigned based on complexity and need, and the firm maintains centralized context, quality control, and accountability.
What kind of gaming work do you handle?
Multi-state legal analysis for sweepstakes, skill, casino, and betting products, including 50-state legal opinions, launch assessments, promotions and platform review, and ongoing compliance strategy as products and state law change.
Do you work with athletes and sports businesses?
Yes. NIL and endorsement deals, rev-share agreements, agency contracts, brand and IP protection, and the corporate work behind athlete-owned ventures.
How do you structure engagements?
Recurring work may be hourly, retainer-based, or hybrid. Fixed fees are used for defined projects where assumptions and deliverables are clear. The written engagement letter sets the scope, staffing, fee structure, assumptions, and any budget guardrails.
How do we get started?
You tell us what you are working on through a short intake, or book a free 15-minute fit call with Jamee — a short conversation about fit, timing, and next steps. The team then reviews fit and conflicts and comes back with the proposed scope, staffing, and fees, confirmed in a written engagement letter.
Tell us what you are working on.
Start with a free 15-minute fit call with Jamee, or share the situation through our intake form. If we are a fit, the team will review conflicts and propose the scope, staffing and fees in a written engagement.