what classes you take will have almost nothing to do with it, but to answer your question anyway: contracts, intellectual property, first amendment, employment. Family, insurance have not that much to do with most of ent law. Ditto for property, crim. Those matters are referred out to specialists. Some schools offer an ent/sports law class - take that of course. But the best advice is to go to one of the best schools and graduate at the top of your class. Failing that, go to one of the l-schools near the biz, e.g., UCLA, USC.
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The first answer is good, but here s a little more. The hard part about being an entertainment lawyer is going to be either a) landing a job or b) finding clients, or c) both. You re going into your first year. In about a month, you won t have time to think about any of that until about Christmas, and no time then to do much about it. What you want to do at winter break is send out a resume to every single law firm you can locate on the planet that does Entertainment Law, and get a summer job clerking for one of them. If you do succeed at that, about three weeks before you leave to go back to school, you ll want to sit down with someone and get them to counsel you about courses. Preferably, that someone will be the person that will decide whether or not to hire you next year, or someone who can help place you at another firm, and doesn t necessarily need to be someone that actually knows anything about your question. The reality is that once you re within a semester of graduating, your actual courses will matter less than your grades, direct legal work experience, and the contacts you made while working over the summers.
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