How To Build And Manage An Entertainment Law Practice

This book provides complete and systematic guidance on how to establish and maintain a practice in the field of entertainment law.

Entertainment Law: Fundamentals and Practice is a comprehensive and unique "how to" guide covering every area of entertainment law including fundamental principles, detailed business models, legal foundations, contract terms, practical advice, and full legal citations for cases and statutes. It has the depth required for practicing lawyers and law students, while at the same time being readable, approachable, and a guidebook for anyone interested in how the entertainment industry works including general courses in the entertainment, film, and music industries. The key to understanding entertainment law is to understand the underlying business models. The unique broad scope of the book is organized into chapters focusing on film, television, book and magazine publishing, music, live theater, radio, celebrity rights, and cyber law. Within those categories, topics such as agents and managers, licensing, advertising, social media, financing, branding, digital media, new television models, new models in music publishing and recording and digital radio, computer games, and copyright fair use are included. The revised first edition includes new and expanded coverage on the Music Modernization Act, film and TV production state tax incentives, case updates in life story rights for film and TV music licensing, and updates on legal and business issues between talent agencies and guilds. Developed in recognition of the broad scope of entertainment law and its areas of overlap with contract, corporate, intellectual property, regulatory law, and more, Entertainment Law: Fundamentals and Practice is an excellent resource for both survey courses and breakout courses on film, television, and music law, among others.

The author takes a fresh look at specific ways to create a client-centric law firm and deliver exceptional client service by differentiating a law firm from other firms, and the specific skills and strategies needed to build effective and productive relationships that result in successful business development. The book provides practical ideas and tactics for addressing the key areas of a law firm-- managing, leading, team building and compensation, client service, and new business development. Writing in an engaging and witty but no-nonsense style, the author speaks directly to the reader, cutting through the stereotypes and misconceived notions that haunt the legal profession and coaching the lawyer to reach beyond the norm.

The Lawyer's Guide to Balancing Life and Work, Second Edition is about how the law fits inside you, not how you fit inside the law. Making space for creativity and passion within your current workplace and at home can yield enormous emotional rewards. In the end, this book will support you whether you stay in the law, shift your law practice, or move on to other work. This book is the tool you need to make healthy decisions and welcome the passion back into your life!

Entertainment Law and Practice addresses both the practical aspects of entertainment and the fundamental underpinnings of entertainment law. The selection of topics is based on what practitioners face, and the materials are selected to build a solid theoretical basis for that topic. The casebook provides a comprehensive survey of the primary entertainment law practice areas, including music and sound recording, motion pictures, television, theatre, and publishing. Special attention is given to developments of emerging technologies production and distribution of content in various new media. In this book readers will find sufficient analysis of publicity rights, copyright, First Amendment, defamation, and trademark law to illustrate these doctrinal areas in the context of entertainment practice. This is the only book in the entertainment law field to integrate the practitioner's issues with the jurisprudential framework in which these fields exist. This approach makes Entertainment Law a natural capstone course for any intellectual property or business curriculum. The casebook is especially useful for adjunct professors teaching the course because of its organization around the relevant issues to the practitioner and highly appreciated by the students using the materials.

This is the training manual that accompanies the book for young associates to help them learn how to work effectively with their colleagues. Training Manual explains how to use the book, answers questions, and guides the mentor on how to work with the associates.

Great opportunities exist for law students and practicing lawyers outside the traditional practice of law. This important resource shows you when and how to choose a nonlegal career; the specialized skills legal training provides; how to plan and conduct a job search; and provides details on careers in business and industry, government and public service, associations and institutions, and entrepreneurial ventures. A resource section provides surveys and listings of nonlegal careers in several categories, and a listing of publishers and suggested readings on nonlegal careers.

This concise resource offers useful, practical advice about establishing goals, fitting into the firm culture, getting recognized, focusing on client relations, marketing one's abilities and the firm's expertise, and other innovative ways to succeed in making partner. Any law firm associate or law student interested in learning what it takes to become a partner will find this newly revised guidebook invaluable. Ambitious young lawyers will turn to this insightful resource to help them formulate a step-by-step plan and be their guide for personal decisions and actions within their firm.

This is a trainer's manual designed to be used in conjunction with The Law Firm Associate's Guide to Personal Marketing and Selling Skills (sold separately). It will serve as a guide to the person who is charged with leading the training sessions and will explain how to best structure the sessions and use the book. Chapters will provide skill development outlines at each level for marketing and sales training; discussion guidelines for coaches working internally or externally with attorneys and teams; discussion guidelines for firm members working internally with individual attorneys; and discussion guidelines, checklists, and program ideas for the person responsible for professional development.