3L at MVP with V50 corporate lined up.
I attempted and failed to get a job in california (both during OCI and 3L year). However i'm still interested in doing entertainment transactional work eventually. My firm does no entertainment work in NY, but AFAIK almost no big firms do entertainment work in NY (other than the occasional M&A deal that involves an entertainment company or something).
Does anyone have knowledge/advice about moving from general corp in NY to entertainment work in NY? On the firm side, not in house. Is V10 pretty much required?
Is entertainment work flame in NY? If not, is Chambers pretty accurate with regards to the firms doing that kind of work in NY? (I've never heard of any of them).
Lateral from Biglaw Transactional to Entertainment in NY? Forum
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Re: Lateral from Biglaw Transactional to Entertainment in NY?
Sorry, not knowledgable enough to help you here. But are you proficient with LinkedIn? Use LinkedIn to find an alum from your school who did this exact transition.
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Re: Lateral from Biglaw Transactional to Entertainment in NY?
NY Entertainment work is very thin. A few firms have a practice, but it's not nearly as built out versus LA. The folks out in NYC often have an international/music/theater flavor to them. Sometimes they shoehorn in things like fashion.
If you want Hollywood work (film & tv), you'll need to be in LA.
By way of background, I used to do entertainment work in LA at a firm that had a well regarded NYC entertainment practice.
If you want Hollywood work (film & tv), you'll need to be in LA.
By way of background, I used to do entertainment work in LA at a firm that had a well regarded NYC entertainment practice.
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Re: Lateral from Biglaw Transactional to Entertainment in NY?
Mind mentioning the firms in NY you're referring to?PwnLaw wrote:NY Entertainment work is very thin. A few firms have a practice, but it's not nearly as built out versus LA. The folks out in NYC often have an international/music/theater flavor to them. Sometimes they shoehorn in things like fashion.
If you want Hollywood work (film & tv), you'll need to be in LA.
By way of background, I used to do entertainment work in LA at a firm that had a well regarded NYC entertainment practice.
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Re: Lateral from Biglaw Transactional to Entertainment in NY?
Grubman Shire comes to mind (I know someone who left from a V30 to go there; I believe they represent Beyonce on certain matters). I'm not really sure what it is that you mean by entertainment transactional work though. Morgan Lewis is big in movie finance, and Paul Weiss has a lot of entertainment clients as well but I'm not sure how much that bleeds into their admittedly not-so-bread-and-butter transactional work.
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Re: Lateral from Biglaw Transactional to Entertainment in NY?
Thanks. Re: what kind of transactional work, thats a good question. I know a lot of people assume entertainment law is just talent work, but thats not what I mean.gfd973 wrote:Grubman Shire comes to mind (I know someone who left from a V30 to go there; I believe they represent Beyonce on certain matters). I'm not really sure what it is that you mean by entertainment transactional work though. Morgan Lewis is big in movie finance, and Paul Weiss has a lot of entertainment clients as well but I'm not sure how much that bleeds into their admittedly not-so-bread-and-butter transactional work.
i'm interested in talent work, but i'm also interested in transactional work for media clients (studios, ad agencies), so licensing/IP/talent kind of work.
I'm not looking at financing or media company M&A because as you mention that work tends to be derivative of a more generalist M&A/financing practice, especially in NY.
Hopefully thats helpful. I'll take a look at Grubman thanks!
