Hannah Taylor

Practice Areas

Advertising, Marketing & Public Relations

Artificial Intelligence

Branded Entertainment

Intellectual Property

Social Media

Blockchain Technology

Technology & Digital Media

Hospitality Law

Career

Hannah E. Taylor is Deputy Managing Partner of the firm and a partner in the Advertising, Marketing & Public Relations and Emerging Technology Groups. Ms. Taylor has received praise in Best Lawyers in America, The Legal 500, Chambers USA, and was named one of the Top Women Media & Advertising Lawyers in New York by Super Lawyers. She uses her considerable experience to help companies navigate compliance obligations relating to their advertising, technology, branded entertainment, and intellectual property initiatives. Her clients say she is “extremely knowledgeable and provides practical, business-minded advice,” adding: “she’s clearly an expert in her field and can cut to the core issues quickly and efficiently.”

Ms. Taylor works with clients to structure and negotiate virtually every type of media-related transaction, advises clients on compliance with federal, state, and local laws, as well as on compliance with relevant self-regulatory guidelines and social media platform terms, and represents advertisers before the Federal Trade Commission and the National Advertising Division. In recent years, Ms. Taylor has developed a particular expertise on emerging technology (including digital media, AI, and blockchain).

She is an industry thought-leader and frequent speaker, including for South by South West, Social Media Week, Practising Law Institute, the Association of National Advertisers, National Advertising Division, Society of Digital Agencies, The Retail Industry Leaders Association, NFT.NYC and more.

Ms. Taylor is also actively involved in leading industry associations, including the ANA Legal Center of Excellence and as a member of the ABA’s Consumer Protection and Advertising Disputes & Litigation Committees. She is the Editor of the ABA’s Consumer Protection Law Developments Update, and is a co-author of the United States chapter in Getting the Deal Through - Advertising and Marketing. She has also been named as a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, a global honorary society of attorneys whose careers demonstrate outstanding dedication to the highest principles of the legal profession and to the welfare of their communities.

Prior to joining Frankfurt Kurnit, Ms. Taylor was a litigator at Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP. Her previous professional experience also includes work for Legal Momentum (formerly NOW Legal Defense Fund) and Fross Zelnick Lehrman & Zissu. She is admitted to practice in New York.