is a trusted and influential entertainment and entrepreneurship attorney and author in the Atlanta area and nationwide. She thrives on helping people build their lives, careers, and businesses with the support of the law, and focuses her practice on assisting entrepreneurs and entertainers in reaching their goals, protecting their businesses, and building strong brands. Early into her career, Dayn
a acknowledged her true passion for entrepreneurship. Prior to starting her law office, Dayna founded a business consulting company where she helped entrepreneurs establish their business entities and advised them on business strategies to develop their business idea, understand their target market, create their brand, and build relationships. A few years later and just ten months after graduating law school, she fearlessly founded The Law Office of Dayna Thomas, LLC, which averaged six-figures in her first three years. Since her launch, Dayna has been involved in deals for television shows on major networks such as FOX, HBO, MTV, VH1, BET, E!, A&E, and WE tv. She has negotiated deals for Grammy award-winning and multi-platinum recording artists, as well as platinum music producers, literary authors, screenplay writers, and film producers. Dayna has also worked closely with over 200 entrepreneurs and small businesses, all before her business’s two-year anniversary. Not only has her faith and preparation led to inspirational success, such as being named in The National Black Lawyers – Top 100 and a Legal Elite by Georgia Trend, Dayna also uses her journey and expertise to educate and inspire other entrepreneurs along the way. In addition to providing legal services, Dayna also develops online courses for entrepreneurs and other lawyers, and has been featured in over 50 publications and events to educate and empower aspiring and new entrepreneurs. She is the founder of New Lawyer Launch, an organization that helps new lawyers start their own highly-profitable business law firm. Dayna is also the author of Entrepreneur’s Guide To Building A Solid Legal Foundation, in which she exposes entrepreneurs to the fundamentals of business law so that they can build a business that they love, the right way. Her book is currently the required text for a music business course at Howard University as well as the Digital Entrepreneurship MBA at Strayer University. Dayna’s life motto is “believe and act as if it were impossible to fail,” which is instrumental to her work and value as an entrepreneurship counselor.
