Ashima Dayal is a partner at Davis & Gilbert. Her practice concentrates on representing and advising the firm’s advertising, media and entertainment clients in both transactional and adversarial matters, ranging from licenses for use of fine art and literary materials, to disputes raising copyright, right of publicity, defamation, and false advertising claims. Ashima also counsels clients on entertainment union and guild issues pertaining to television, radio and Internet advertising.

Ashima has been recognized by The Legal 500 United States in the areas of copyright and advertising and marketing. She also has been recognized in Media Law International’s rankings for her work in the area of media law.

Immediately prior to becoming an attorney, Ashima was a publicist at the Fox Broadcasting Company and Baker Winokur Ryder Public Relations. While in law school, Ashima was Senior Editor of the Columbia Law Review, and prior to joining Davis + Gilbert, Ashima was an intellectual property attorney at Debevoise & Plimpton.