Lisa Davis > Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz PC > New York, United States > Lawyer Profile
Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz PC Offices
28 LIBERTY STREET
New York NY 10005
NEW YORK
United States
Lisa Davis

Work Department
Entertainment
Position
Partner/Co-Chair
Career
Lisa E. Davis is a partner and Co-Chair of the firm’s Entertainment Group. She serves on the firm’s Policy Committee and is Co-Chair of the firm’s Diversity Committee. She represents businesses and celebrities in the film, television, publishing, music, theatre, and sports industries.
Ms. Davis has been ranked as a New York-area “Super Lawyer” since 2007 and was featured on the cover of Super Lawyers magazine in a piece on her career and advocacy for racial justice. She is recognized in Who’s Who Legal: Telecoms Media & Entertainment 2024, by Best Lawyers in America in the 2023-2025 editions for Entertainment Law, in the 2023-2025 editions of Chambers USA for Media & Entertainment: Theater, by The New York Law Journal as one of only seven 2022 Diversity Initiative honorees, Crain’s New York Business on their 2023 Notable Women in Law list and 2022 Notable Diverse Leaders in Law list, The Hollywood Reporter’s Power Lawyers 2025, 2024, 2023, 2021, and 2020 lists of New York’s Top 20 Entertainment Attorneys, Variety’s 2020 Legal Impact Report, by City & State as one of New York’s “Responsible 100” (2019), by the Black Entertainment & Sports Lawyers Association (2019 Beacon of Industry Award), by Crain’s New York Business 2017 as a “Leading Woman Lawyer in NYC,” by The National Law Journal (“Outstanding Women Lawyers” 2015), by Savoy magazine in their “Most Influential Black Lawyers of 2015,” and in Variety’s “Power of Women New York Impact Report” (2014). Additionally, she is listed among the country’s leading media and entertainment lawyers by The Legal 500.
Ms. Davis advises on a full range of transactional matters – focusing on film (both feature and documentary), television, publishing, live stage and branded entertainment. Ms. Davis represents directors, writers and performers in film and television, as well as playwrights and bloggers. In her sports practice, she represents top athletes in their “off the field” activities, including endorsements and investments.
Prior to joining Frankfurt Kurnit, she clerked for the Honorable Constance Baker Motley in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Ms. Davis is a graduate of Harvard University (B.A., 1981) and New York University (J.D., 1985), where she was a staff member of the New York University Law Review and a Root-Tilden scholar. She is admitted to practice in New York.
Memberships
Lisa serves on the firm’s Policy Committee and is Co-Chair of the firm’s Diversity Committee.
Education
New York University School of Law (J.D.)
Harvard University (B.A.)
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: transactional
Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz PC‘s entertainment group excels in advising the full gamut of media and entertainment individuals such as producers, actors, directors, models and personalities as well as production, distribution, broadcast, financing and media companies. The firm splits its sizeable practice across New York and Los Angeles, often advising clients on cross-border global transactions and deals such as international distribution deals for television creators and studios. Victoria Cook leads on these issues from New York, representing creatives and financiers in these international deals and advising on creating a new storytelling initiative. The team also assists with IP-related issues such as licensing and brand management. Andrew Hurwitz leads the team from Los Angeles, while Hayden Goldblatt and Lisa Davis spearhead the New York practice. Hurwitz specializes in handling complex deals in TV, film and video game sectors, Davis focuses on representing artists and Goldblatt centres his practice on equity and debt film financings and rights deals. Also in New York, Julie Murray advises TV, film and documentary production companies through complex transactions, while Ben Moskowitz is knowledgeable on development agreements, production deals and talent agreements.