PARTNER / LITIGATION
DANIELLE ZOLOT
Danielle Zolot is a litigation Partner at ESCA Legal, where she helps businesses across multiple industries in the advertising, media, marketing, entertainment, and consumer goods navigate complex and sensitive disputes. She advises on a broad range of issues including trademark and copyright enforcement, right of privacy, intellectual property, and employment matters, and manages cases from inception to resolution across all phases of litigation, from pre-suit strategy through discovery and trial.
Danielle brings creative, strategic solutions to clients of all sizes, with a sharp focus on intellectual property disputes in an evolving legal landscape. A dedicated problem solver, she is equally comfortable handling critical motions and intense negotiations, and has opposed large and small firms, government agencies, and pro se plaintiffs. Her experience includes acting as amicus curiae before federal circuit courts and the Supreme Court of the United States in arguing for the return of Nazi-looted Holocaust-era artwork to its rightful heirs.
Danielle joined ESCA from Davis+Gilbert where she represented clients across the advertising, media, entertainment, and retail spaces in connection with litigation and disputes. Danielle began her career at Cahill Gordon & Reindel before moving to Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, where she handled complex commercial and consumer protection litigation.
Outside the office, Danielle enjoys traveling, attending comedy shows, and spending time with her husband, son, and daughter, especially at the Jersey Shore.
EDUCATION
+ EXPERIENCE
Danielle brings over ten years of intellectual property and commercial litigation experience in federal and state courts, with a strong track record across copyright infringement, trademark disputes, right of publicity, and consumer protection litigation. She has first-chaired arbitrations, secured TROs, and litigated disputes in federal courts on matters including copyright protectability, fair use, right of publicity, and the Lanham Act.
She received her B.S. in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University, before earning her J.D. from Cornell Law School, where she served as an Online Editor of the Cornell Law Review and a Bench Editor on the Moot Court Board.
FOLLOW
+ CONNECT
SKILLS
+ ACCOLADES
Danielle has academically published pieces in the Cornell Law Review and the Dispute Resolution Journal concerning the entertainment industry.
She is recognized as an outstanding intellectual property attorney, having been named a Legal 500 United States Recommended Attorney in Intellectual Property: Copyright for 2024.
Bar Admissions:
New York
New Jersey
U.S. District Court, S.D.N.Y.
U.S. District Court, E.D.N.Y.
U.S. District Court, N.D.N.Y.
U.S. District Court, D.N.J.
U.S. Court of Appeals, 2d Cir.
Member, New York State Bar Association
Member, Intellectual Property Section
Member, Women in Law Section
Publications:
Rewriting the Overtime Dialogue: Why Misclassified Reality Television Producers are Entitled to only Half-Time Damages, 100 Cornell L. Rev. 1217 (2015)
A Creative Industry Needs A Creative Solution: Why the Entertainment Industry Should Adopt Mediation as Its Primary Form of Dispute Resolution, 68 Disp. Res. J. 71 (2013)
