-: I would say as we started in the beginning,
entertainment law's a lot of contracts.
One of the entertainment lawyers I worked with
many years ago said people misunderstand
what I do, I don't hang out with famous people
but what I do is I draft the paper
that famous people sign and touch.
So, that goes to drafting contract,
drafting is key, so obviously contracts
is a required course,
you take the contracts course
but then what's the topic of what you're doing?
Well, for entertainment it's a lot of intellectual property,
there's trademarks, there's copyrights,
and these days with all the special effects,
there could even be some patents involved.
So, you really wanna know your trademark and copyright.
Those are absolutely keys.
It could be the person who has done well in law school,
maybe is not in the top 10%
but wrote onto law review
or it could be the person who worked two jobs
to get through college or law school.
Something that shows you can work hard
because unfortunately,
the legal profession I think
and being an entertainment lawyer is labor intensive.
You've gotta know the facts,
you can't draft the contract without understanding
what the client wants
and you can't understand what the client wants
until you ask a lot of questions
and you can't ask a lot of questions
unless it takes a lot of time,
so it's pretty labor intensive
and all the labor is in your head,
so if you've shown an ability to work hard,
that shows me that you'll really be good
to have on our team.