Ms. Davis, who is the managing partner of Cohen, Weiss and Simon, has more than 40 years of experience in the representation of national, regional and local labor unions in all aspects of collective bargaining, litigation, mergers and affiliations, organizing, strategic planning and internal union governance. She currently serves as general or lead outside counsel to unions in the entertainment, sports, health care and public sector arenas. She also serves as the parliamentarian at many of her clients’ governing body meetings and Conventions. Ms. Davis has helped shape the firm’s culture and direction. She is skilled in assisting clients with addressing complex strategic, structural, and legal issues. Ms. Davis is a highly skilled negotiator who has committed her career to seeking economic justice for and empowering the members of the unions she represents. 

Prior to joining Cohen, Weiss and Simon LLP, Ms. Davis was a clerk for the Honorable Constance Baker Motley in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. 

Ms. Davis is a fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers, a member and former co-chair of the American Bar Association’s Section on Labor and Employment Law Committee on Practice and Procedure under the National Labor Relations Act, and a former member of the Council of the American Arbitration Association. She serves on the AFL-CIO Lawyers Advisory Panel, the Board of Directors of the AFL-CIO Union Lawyers Alliance, and is an Advisory Board Member of the Cornell University ILR School. Ms. Davis has been named repeatedly as a Super Lawyer for Employment and Labor Law, one of the Top Women Attorneys in the Metropolitan New York, and a New York Metro Super Lawyer. Ms. Davis was a 2013 Peggy Browning Fund Honoree. 

Ms. Davis has written for and lectured extensively at bar association, attorney, and union meetings on a wide variety of issues facing unions and their members. 

Ms. Davis graduated with honors from the University of California at Berkeley in 1976. She received a law degree with high honors from Rutgers University in 1981, winning the West Publishing Company’s annual jurisprudence award and leading the Rutgers moot court team to the American Bar Association’s national moot court finals.