Edith “Edy” Lawson-Jackson, Esq. is an NFLPA-certified Contract Advisor, attorney, and co-founder of Affiliated Sports Advisors (ASA), a football representation and athlete management firm based in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. Certified by the NFL Players Association since 2010, Lawson-Jackson has established herself as one of the pioneering women in NFL player representation and is recognized as one of the few Black female NFL agents in the industry. A native of Baltimore, Maryland, Lawson-Jackson earned her Juris Doctor from Howard University School of Law and began her legal career in civil litigation and family law before pursuing her longstanding passion for sports. After extensively studying the NFL's Collective Bargaining Agreement and passing the NFLPA Contract Advisor examination on her first attempt, she launched her career in football representation and later founded her own athlete management practice. Throughout her career, Lawson-Jackson has represented NFL players, draft prospects, and professional athletes while building a reputation for personalized client advocacy and contract expertise. Prior to Affiliated Sports Advisors, she founded Homegrown Sports Management and later partnered with veteran agent Greg “Tripp” Linton to form Hall of Fame Sports. Her representation work has included current and former NFL players such as Nate Hobbs, Demone Harris, Cameron Goode, Popo Aumavae, and Corey Peters, among others.