Is it hard to be an entertainment lawyer in St. Louis?
Very difficult. This is not the entertainment capital of the world, but I’m primarily an intellectual property lawyer (handling) patents, trademarks, copyright and trade secrets. And entertainment is kind of the sexy adjunct to trademark, copyright work. Why do you stay in St. Louis? I’m very happy with this town. It’s very livable, and I like my law firm, and I like my colleagues. I have my friends here. I have my new grandson here. I like being 10 to 20 minutes from home instead of two to three hours. When you were an undergraduate, did you know you wanted to be a lawyer? I wanted to be a poet. The first poem I’d ever written got published, and I thought, “My God, this is a great career.” And literature was always my favorite subject. And that is when my mother explained that only dead poets made money. And that I really ought to think about something else. Did it surprise you that you’d enjoy handling intellectual property issues instead of being a full-time poet? I’m not surprised
