Every day, people sign away money, homes, and leverage in documents they were never taught to read. We're changing that — teaching athletes, service members, students, and whole communities to read what they sign before they sign it.
Six modules. Every signature that shapes a life. The lease. The auto loan. The first job offer. The NIL deal. Each one runs 20–30 minutes in plain English and comes with a workbook you keep — the class no one ever taught you, right before you sign the next one.
Contract literacy isn't a niche legal skill. It's self-defense for modern life — and almost no one is ever taught it.
The government now has a name for what happens when they aren't: the "fine print tactic." People aren't careless — the documents are built to be skipped. We exist to hand that power back, in plain English, to everyone: the athlete signing an NIL deal, the family signing a lease, the service member signing at transition, the student signing a first offer.
Founded by Leo Mann — a 30-year contract attorney and #1 best-selling author of Don't Sign That — the movement now reaches across six fronts.
Each front brings contract literacy to a community that signs high-stakes documents — and rarely gets taught how to read them. Explore each one.
NIL is the first contract athletes care about — not the last they'll sign. A 6-module program built for student-athletes and athletic departments.
Explore NIL & athletics Free programs Front 02Bringing the movement to people who can't afford to be taken advantage of. Free programs with cities and libraries — piloting this summer.
See the community work Front 03Service members are prime targets for predatory contracts — it's why the Military Lending Act exists. Contract literacy for those who serve.
Explore the military front License Front 04Financial advisors license the curriculum to give clients a skill that protects every dollar they help them earn and keep.
See the advisor license Front 05The skill nobody teaches before graduation. A turnkey curriculum that prepares students for the first real contracts of their lives.
Explore school systems #1 Best Seller Front 06Don't Sign That — the #1 best-selling guide that started the movement. Plain-English contract literacy for everyone.
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The #1 best-selling guide that grew into a national movement. Thirty years of a contract attorney's hard-won lessons, translated into plain English anyone can use the next time they sign anything.
For thirty years, Leo Mann has sat on the other side of the table — a corporate contract attorney who reads the fine print for a living. He wrote Don't Sign That, the #1 best-selling guide to reading what you sign, and built The Contract Literacy Movement to hand that skill to everyone: athletes, service members, students, and whole communities.
His approach is the same one that made the book a best seller — take the language that's built to be skipped and put it back in plain English, so people can walk into any signature knowing exactly what they're agreeing to.
Plain English. Fair deals. Better lives.
Leo is bringing contract literacy to national audiences. The first episode is live — the rest are linked here as they air.
with Joe Saul-Sehy & OG · episode 1885, The Four Psychological Tricks That Get You to Sign Anything
Listen to the episodewith Jordan Harbinger
with Frank Curzio
Sugar & Spice · Glennda's Guru
Every appearance, with what each one covers, lives on the podcasts & press page — and the free field guide Leo mentions on the show is at contractliteracy.com/stackers.
Student-athletes who've lived the NIL era are stepping up to help teach the next generation to read what they sign. Our first spokespersons will be announced soon.
Are you an athlete who wants to help lead the movement? Get in touch →
Athletic department, city, library, base, advisory practice, or school system — tell us who you serve and we'll show you what contract literacy looks like for them.
Prefer email? Reach Leo directly at
leo@leomannpublishing.com