I’m currently majoring in television production and minoring in accounting. I’d like to become a talent agent after college, or at least start working at an agency. I want to go to law school because I believe that will benefit me in dealing with contracts and clients when I become an agent. Do you think my current course of study will help me get into law school?
Law schools like to have a wide range of undergrad majors in their class. I was a music major and ended up in a Wall Street law firm. It is best to major in something that you are passionate about and that will allow you to get high grades. I don’t know that any particular major will “help” you get into a law school. Having said that, courses with a lot of writing and analysis will help you perform in law school and as a lawyer.
If your goal is to learn the law for “benefit…in dealing with contracts and clients when [you] become an agent”, don’t spend 3 years and 6 figures to go to law school. Take a Bar/Bri bar review class (which is what law graduates take before taking the bar). That takes a few weeks and costs a few thousand dollars and it will give you the practical legal knowledge that you think you need. Law school itself won’t. Talent agency contracts are a specialized field- I have done some of them- and even a bar review class won’t be that helpful in that niche area, though.
I’d just become a talent agent and would just ask the law firm that your employer uses about some tips for contracts. That will be the most cost- and time-effective way of getting what you want.
I would avoid law school if that is all you intend on using your JD for. At $150,000/3 years (minimum cost for most schools), a JD probably isn’t worth it.