Davis attended Syracuse University Law School and was admitted to the New York State Bar in 1927.
He served a clerkship, and then started his firm in New York City specializing in defending mobsters.
[1] On December 30, 1969,[3][4] Dixie Davis died of a heart attack in his home in Bel-Air, California after a break-in.
Two masked gunmen had bound his wife and grandson and had stolen jewels, furs, and cash.
[1] The character Tommy Farrell in the 1958 film Party Girl is loosely based on him.