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Lisa E Davis

Lisa E. Davis is one of the foremost entertainment attorneys in the country. She is cochair of the Entertainment Group of Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz, representing celebrities in the film, television, publishing, music, theater, and sports industries. Davis has been ranked as a New York area "Super Lawyer" since 2007 and featured on the cover of Super Lawyers magazine about her career and advocacy for racial justice. She is recognized in Who's Who Legal 2024, by Best Lawyers in America 2023–2025, Crain's New York Business's 2023 Notable Women in Law, The Hollywood Reporter's Power Lawyers 2025, 2024, 2023, 2021, and 2020 lists of New York's Top 20 Entertainment Attorneys, Variety's Legal Impact Report, and more. Davis has been quoted in Elle magazine, The New York Times, and Black Enterprise magazine. A graduate of Harvard College and New York University School of Law, she clerked for the Honorable Constance Baker Motley in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. A frequent speaker and panelist at conferences, she is a member of the New York City Bar and the Black Entertainment and Sports Lawyers Association. Davis also has a political blog, Journal of the Plague Years. She practices law in New York and lives in New Jersey with her family.

This biography was last updated on 05/19/2026.

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