Faculty

Jane Davidson is an attorney who focuses her practice on Entertainment Litigation at Nolan Heimann LLP.  After graduating from USC Thornton’s Music Industry program, Davidson worked full-time in the music industry while pursuing her law degree from Loyola Law School’s evening program.  

As a litigator, Davidson focuses her practice on copyright and trademark infringement, defamation, and business disputes. She has managed trademark and copyright enforcement and infringement suits for music festivals, filmmakers, podcasts, sports teams, songwriters and jewelry designers. In her counseling work, she has advised musicians, production companies and influencers on entertainment agreements. She was a member of the legal team that successfully terminated a 13-year conservatorship for a high-profile artist. 

An adjunct instructor at USC Thornton since fall 2022, Jane Davidson utilizes the Renaissance scholar perspective that she developed during her time as a student in the Music Industry program and in her involvement with the Visions & Voices initiative. Her research, lectures and classroom discussions center on evaluating legal issues through multiple lenses that impact legal work beyond just the law including micro/macroeconomic factors, business interests, musicology, music theory, branding, evolving technology, ethics, and equity.

Davidson also mentors pre-law students drawing on her experience as an adjunct professor at Loyola Law School where she teaches Entertainment Law.