While no state and no players’ association requires an agent to be an attorney in order to become a licensed sports agent (the NFL does require that the person have a postgraduate degree, though), many agents did go to law school, and quite a few have passed at least one state Bar Exam. There are many benefits of having a legal education, or at least employing someone who has gone through the three years of learning things like Contracts, Negotiations, Legal Drafting, etc.
On September 4, 2008, I decided to take a look at the law schools that some of the industry’s best have attended in the past. This week, BitterLawyer.com decided to take the task one step forward, ranking the top 11 agents who have gone to law school. I have to thank the website for mentioning my name and this site in their article.
Ranked at the top of the list is Drew Rosenhaus, who went to Duke University School of Law. He is followed by Scott Boras, who graduated from University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law. Up next are the two men behind CAA Football (Tom Condon – University of Baltimore and Ben Dogra – St. Louis University Law School). Rounding out the top 5 is Arn Tellem, who went to University of Michigan Law School.
The comments in the post make note that most of the agents listed went to a TTT. UrbanDictionary.com sheds some light on what TTT means (I have changed it around a bit to make it appropriate for this site).
Third tier toilet. Generally used as a pejorative term for law schools that are not prestigious, aka Top 14 law schools. To certain people, a law school is either a TTT or a Top 14 school, there is no in-between.
Vanderbilt Law School is ranked #17 according the US News and World Report, but it is still a TTT because it isn’t in the Top 14; it doesn’t matter how close a school’s ranking is to the top 14, if it is not in the Top 14, it is automatically a TTT.
I wouldn’t look too far into why many successful agents did not go to a Top 14 law school. The only thing I would say is something I have always believed in – Going to a top school may open up some doors that would not normally exist; however, going to a top school does not guarantee success. And TTT schools have produced MANY successful people.
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As a graduate of a so-called TTT, I can tell you that the “TTT” designation is a term primarily tossed around by bitter, miserable, elitist, condescending lawyers at New York firms who are watching their lives waste away and having their souls crushed as they work ungodly hours doing mindless busy work such as document review. Yes, these lawyers get paid a lot more than I do, but the tradeoff of a chance to do more in life than work is a small price to pay.
Amen to that man. Someone’s always gotta be hatin, but thats ok. Somone’s gotta do it
sports agents who have training in the law do not wish to become a licenced attorney because failure to pass the bar exam will prevent an agent from being certified by a professional league