Entertainment law numbers Forum

[ArtVandelay]

To find which top schools placed best in entertainment law, I looked at the sites of 8 of the top entertainment law firms (based mostly on Chambers rankings.) I searched for people in the LA (or Century City when applicable) office who were also in the entertainment practice. Here are the results:

School # #/school size
USC 15 0.024
UCLA 20 0.020
Stanford 6 0.011
Yale 6 0.010
Harvard 14 0.008
Berkeley 7 0.008
Cornell 4 0.006
Gtown 8 0.005
Columbia 6 0.005
NYU 4 0.003
Mich 2 0.002
UVA 2 0.002
Chicago 1 0.002
Duke 1 0.002
Penn 1 0.001
Northw 1 0.001

Vandy down was pretty much 0 (save for very few from Loyola and Southwestern.)


Note that the total number includes all lawyers (partners, associates, and counsel), but the vast majority of them are partners. This illustrates just how small of a field entertainment law is and how small the odds are of landing a job in the field (especially right out of school.)

Edit: left out a school

[270910]

This illustrates just how small of a field entertainment law is and how small the odds are of landing a job in the field (especially right out of school.)

[Renzo]

People who idealize entertainment law are daft.

How is the day-to-day work of drafting corporate documents different because the corporation is a movie production as opposed to a widget factory?

[ec2xs]

I'm glad you posted this. It's definitely a smaller field than most people realize and a field based more on who you know than anything. Still, many people do entertainment law on a day-to-day basis at firms that aren't regarded as entertainment law firms (I've met a few in Austin that work at larger, more "corporate" firms that work in entertainment regularly). I imagine it's slightly more common that those numbers would indicate. Slightly.

[Anonymous User]

People who idealize entertainment law are daft.

How is the day-to-day work of drafting corporate documents different because the corporation is a movie production as opposed to a widget factory?

I asked a music lawyer something along these lines recently. His answer: I'm not sure, but I like meeting with artists more than other people.

[Barbie]

To find which top schools placed best in entertainment law, I looked at the sites of 8 of the top entertainment law firms (based mostly on Chambers rankings.) I searched for people in the LA (or Century City when applicable) office who were also in the entertainment practice. Here are the results:

School # #/school size
USC 15 0.024
UCLA 20 0.020
Stanford 6 0.011
Yale 6 0.010
Harvard 14 0.008
Berkeley 7 0.008
Cornell 4 0.006
Gtown 8 0.005
NYU 4 0.003
Mich 2 0.002
UVA 2 0.002
Chicago 1 0.002
Duke 1 0.002
Penn 1 0.001
Northw 1 0.001

Vandy down was pretty much 0 (save for very few from Loyola and Southwestern.)


Note that the total number includes all lawyers (partners, associates, and counsel), but the vast majority of them are partners. This illustrates just how small of a field entertainment law is and how small the odds are of landing a job in the field (especially right out of school.)

Just out of curiosity, does entertainment law include sports law?

[neimanmarxist]

People who idealize entertainment law are daft.

I just love the word "daft."

[270910]

People who idealize entertainment law are daft.

I just love the word "daft."

+1

[crazycanuck]

To find which top schools placed best in entertainment law, I looked at the sites of 8 of the top entertainment law firms (based mostly on Chambers rankings.) I searched for people in the LA (or Century City when applicable) office who were also in the entertainment practice. Here are the results:

School # #/school size
USC 15 0.024
UCLA 20 0.020
Stanford 6 0.011
Yale 6 0.010
Harvard 14 0.008
Berkeley 7 0.008
Cornell 4 0.006
Gtown 8 0.005
NYU 4 0.003
Mich 2 0.002
UVA 2 0.002
Chicago 1 0.002
Duke 1 0.002
Penn 1 0.001
Northw 1 0.001

Vandy down was pretty much 0 (save for very few from Loyola and Southwestern.)


Note that the total number includes all lawyers (partners, associates, and counsel), but the vast majority of them are partners. This illustrates just how small of a field entertainment law is and how small the odds are of landing a job in the field (especially right out of school.)

Just out of curiosity, does entertainment law include sports law?

Sports law is tricky, a lot of the player reps are parents/siblings/relatives/friends.

Here's a listing of the NHL agents:

http://www.nhlpa.com/About-Us/Certified-Agents/

A lot of them don't even have a JD.