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What area of entertainment law are you trying to get into (e.g., music, tv/film)? Given your current background, you’d be great in tv/film and learning about the various guilds (SAG, WGA, DGA, etc.). But it really depends what you’re trying to do at the end of the day.
As far as books go, I recommend the following:
- The Business of Television (Ken Basin)
- All You Need to Know about the Music Business (Don Passman)
- Hollywood Dealmaking (Mark Litwak)
Good luck on all your endeavors!
Ok thanks. I will add these to my list. Currently reading Ken Basin’s book. Was recommended by a talent side attorney I met. Regarding L&E, I like it, but it’s like your second favorite tv show. You rather be watching something else. (In this case, doing transactional work)
Start small at a boutique, take the pay cut and get the experience. Then you can call your own shots.
I respect that. Thanks for sharing. Experience matters at the end of day. And the cut in pay evened out later down the line.
Obligatory post that I think needs to be stickied in this bowl:
“Entertainment law” isn’t really a practice area, it’s an industry that various practice groups service. If you do L&E defense, it sounds like you want to do entertainment litigation (unless you want to switch to the transactional side).
There are a lot more opportunities on the transactional side in the entertainment space, but like someone above mentioned, there’s a lot of work to be done dealing with the various Hollywood guilds. If I were you, I would (1) study up on the way the guilds work, and try to
read books/articles about legal issues that pop up with them. Then, once you’re well read on the topic, you should target the LA firms that have strong L&E groups that’s device entertainment clients. I think O’Melveny and MSK come to mind.
If you want to get out of L&E and do more “entertainment litigation”, you should de use whether you think you’d like talent-side or production/studio-side representation more. A prominent talent-side firm that comes to. Hbd is Lavely & Singer. On the production/studio side, MTO, DWT, GDC, Greenberg Glusker, O’Melveny come to mind
Loeb & Loeb and DWT have excellent entertainment litigation practices. They both also have excellent entertainment transactional practices, which include production legal and not just M&A or other high-level deals that happen to be in the entertainment space, which I believe is what you’ll mostly find at larger shops like Proskauer or O’Melveny. I have friends at both Loeb and DWT and they love that they’re doing “core” entertainment transactional work that’s close to the content.