Influencer deal legal review · For creators with a contract in their inbox

They sent the contract.
We'll tell you what it actually says.

A flat-fee legal review of your influencer brand deal by an attorney who negotiates endorsement and social media marketing agreements for a living. In writing. In 48 hours.

Get your deal reviewed — $249 Free guide: the 10 red flags

Most reviews come back the next business day. Rush available.

How it works

Share your name and who the deal is with. No contract or confidential terms yet.
Pass a quick conflicts check. You see the result right away.
Accept the terms, pay $249 and upload your contract.
Get your full written review and notes within 48 hours.

Start my review — $249

Flat fee. No hourly billing. Limited scope — see FAQ.

The moment

You have 48 hours and 14 pages of someone else's agreement.

Templates don't help here. You're not drafting an agreement — you're being handed one, and you need to know what's in it before Friday.

From: partnerships@[agency].com · Subject: Contract for signature

"Hi! So excited to work together. Attached is our standard creator agreement — it's pretty boilerplate, same one we use with everybody.

Can you get this back to us signed by Friday so we can lock the campaign dates?"

📎 Creator_Services_Agreement_v4.pdf — 14 pages

?Is "standard" actually standard, or standard for them?
?What did I just agree to about who owns the video?
?How long can they run this, and where?
?Which brands can I not work with now?
?If I ask for changes, do I lose the deal?
?Is any of this worth pushing back on?

What you get

A written review, not a phone call you'll forget.

One influencer contract, one flat fee, one document back that you can act on immediately — and forward to the brand if you want to.

The issues that matter

Every provision worth your attention, ranked by what it actually costs you — not a 40-page memo restating the contract back at you.

What each one means in plain English

What the clause says, what it does to you, and how it plays out twelve months from now.

Specific replacement language

Word-for-word wording to send back, with a note on which asks brands usually grant and which they'll fight.

Included

✓One agreement, reviewed in full
✓Written summary of material issues
✓Suggested revision language
✓A clear recommendation: sign, push back, or walk
✓48-hour turnaround

Not included at this price

—Negotiating with the brand on your behalf
—Redlining and multiple revision rounds
—Ongoing representation
—Disputes over an agreement already signed

If your deal needs any of the above, we'll say so in the review and quote it separately.

What we look for

The ten places influencer contracts quietly cost creators money.

Every review runs this list against your agreement. You can also just download it and run it yourself — it's free, and it's the same list. For every clause in detail, with a free template, read the complete influencer contract guide →

Ownership"Work made for hire" — and whether you can still post your own video.

Usage rights"In perpetuity, throughout the universe" is not boilerplate.

ExclusivityWhich brands you can't work with, for how long, and whether you got paid for it.

Term & terminationWhether they can walk after you've shot it, and what you're owed.

PaymentNet 90 after undefined "acceptance" is a clock that never starts.

ApprovalsUnlimited revisions turns a flat fee into unpaid hourly work.

IndemnificationWhether you're covering claims about their product.

Morality clauseWho decides, and whether they can claw the money back.

FTC disclosureThey write the caption, you carry the regulatory risk.

Name, image & likenessWhitelisting is a separate product. It shouldn't be free.

Get the full guide, free

All ten, with the exact red-flag language and the wording to send back.

Check your inbox: confirm your email address and the guide is on its way.

Who pays when it goes wrong

If an influencer post gets sued, your contract decides who pays.

Most brand deals include an indemnity clause: your promise to cover the brand's costs if someone makes a claim about your post. Signed as written, that can put the brand's legal bill on you, even when the brand wrote the script.

FTC disclosure

Federal rules require a clear disclosure of any paid relationship. Many contracts make that your job alone, even when the brand writes the caption and approves the post.

Product claims

If the brand gives you talking points that turn out to be misleading, "they told me to say it" may not protect you. The contract should make the brand stand behind its own claims.

Music, footage and artwork

You usually promise that everything in the post is cleared for commercial use. A sound that's fine on a personal post may not be licensed for an ad.

What your review covers

Every indemnity and promise you're making. We check whether it has a cap, whether it runs both ways, and whether it leaves out material the brand gave you. Then you get the exact wording to send back.

Reviewed by Zeb Chandler: 16 years of practice, hundreds of brand, endorsement and marketing deals, and a member of the Entertainment and Sports Law Section of the State Bar of Georgia. Admitted in Georgia.

The conflicts check runs before you upload anything, and if it turns up a conflict, you get a full refund. If your review recommends full representation and you hire us, your review fee is discounted.

Who reviews it

Someone who sits on the other side of this table every week.

Zeb ChandlerEntertainment attorney, Atlanta

"Your brand deal has a formal name. It's an endorsement agreement, and there are fifty years of practice behind how it gets fought over."

Brand Deal Review is run by Zeb Chandler, an Atlanta entertainment attorney focused on endorsement and social media marketing agreements — the exact instrument in your inbox. Sixteen years of it, on both sides of the table, for creators, athletes, and the brands and agencies sending these contracts out.

That matters for a reason most sites won't tell you: the agency contract you were sent didn't come from nowhere. Its clauses migrated in from talent, music, and film agreements that have been negotiated for decades. Knowing where a provision came from is how you know which ones are real and which ones are asks.

Every review is done by a licensed attorney. Not a template engine, not an AI summarizer, not a contractor. That's the whole product.

About the attorney on zebchandler.com ↗ (the firm's main site; opens in a new tab)

What clients say

From people who sent me the agreement first.

“I hate to admit it, but more than once I dropped the whole thing into ChatGPT and hoped for the best.”

Companies kept reaching out with brand deals and I never really knew what a good one looked like. Sometimes I would just say yes to the contract without a closer look.

Once I started working with Zeb, everything changed. He reviews the contracts with a level of detail I couldn't have managed on my own — catching gaps and inconsistencies in the fine print, flagging things I would never have thought to ask about. He negotiates on my behalf, and I've been able to protect my brand's integrity.

Having him in my corner has made a real difference. I'll never sign another contract without him reviewing it first.

Dr. Mary Alice Mina, MDBoard-certified dermatologist · Host of The Skin Real® · @drminaskin

Pricing

Start free. Escalate only if the deal calls for it.

Most brand deals don't need a lawyer on retainer. Some absolutely do. The point is that you can tell which is which — and that the next step exists when you need it. What a lawyer review usually costs, and why ours is flat →

Free

The red flag guide

Run it yourself

The ten clauses, the language to look for, and the wording to send back.

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Your own contracts to send brands, annotated clause by clause, plus checklists, negotiation scripts, and a monthly live Q&A.

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When it's bigger

Quoted

engagement basis

Representation

We negotiate it for you. For deals where the money, the contract, or the counterparty warrants a lawyer in the room. How negotiation works

Questions

The ones that actually matter.

Is this legal advice? Am I a client?

For a paid Brand Deal Review, yes — you're engaging a licensed attorney under a written limited-scope engagement, and the review is legal advice about your specific agreement. That's the point of it, and it's what separates this from a template site. The free guide and the subscription library are different: those are legal information and document tools, and using them doesn't make you a client.

Why is it limited scope?

Because a flat fee only works if both sides know exactly what's in it. A review is a full read of one agreement and a written analysis. It isn't rounds of redlining or negotiating with the brand — those are real work and get quoted as such. If the review turns up something that needs more, we'll tell you plainly and you decide. Here's how brand deal negotiation works, and the full $249 is credited if you hire us for it.

What if I'm not in your state?

Most creator agreements turn on contract terms that don't change much across state lines, and we review deals nationally on that basis. Where your state's law genuinely changes the answer — or where a matter requires representation in a jurisdiction we're not admitted in — we'll say so and, where appropriate, bring in local counsel rather than guess.

Will pushing back cost me the deal?

Almost never, and this is the single most common fear we hear. Brands and agencies expect a counter — their first draft is an opening position, not a final offer. The review tells you which asks are routine and which are a real fight, so you're not spending goodwill on something you were going to get anyway.

I already signed. Is it too late?

Sometimes, not always. Agreements get amended more often than people think, and some provisions are weaker than they read. That's a conversation rather than a flat-fee review — get in touch and we'll tell you honestly whether there's anything to work with.

How fast, really?

48 hours standard, and most come back the next business day. If your deadline is sooner than that, say so when you submit — rush is available.

They sent the contract.We'll tell you what it actually says.