How important would you say going a program with entertainment law is for an aspiring entertainment lawyer?
My advice to law students is to go to the best law school you can go to. Once you get into deciding between law schools, whatever tier of laws schools, that’s when you consider what types of law they offer. If you get into Harvard, go to Harvard. You’ll have a better career. A lot of the top executives went to big law schools. Do you consider entertainment law to be a unique body of law? I don’t view entertainment as a separate body of law. Although there are types of law that are exclusive to entertainment. It’s an amalgamation of other fields. The way I describe it, glibly, it’s a business law, but business law with an ego driven business. Lawyers need to know how to distinguish this law. However, there are certainly fields of law exclusive to the entertainment industry, such as right of publicity. What is a typical day, if there is one for you? Typical day is a 10-7, normal business hours. I rarely adhere to the 7 o’clock part of it. I mostly work from a home office. I’m in the offi