Global Top 200 Cannabis Lawyers
Directory 2023/24

Welcome to the 4th Edition of the Global Top 200 Cannabis Lawyers 2023 – 2024 published by Cannabis Law Report & Cannabis Law Journal.

We have compiled the lawyers and law firms we believe, to be the top 200 cannabis practitioners & practices around the world via our annual survey of clients and lawyers in the cannabis legal services sector as well as our personal editorial decisions based on our reporting of the industry on a daily basis for the past seven + years. Read More

Thank you, Sean Hocking – Editor: The Global Top 200 Cannabis Lawyers

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Top 200 Cannabis Lawyers – Plus 2023/2024


Michael R Ross  -  Prince Lobel Tye LLP

Michael R Ross – Prince Lobel Tye LLP

Michael P. Ross brings his experience to solving complex problems and bringing disparate parties together in his focus on commercial real estate, and strategic advice. Mike served for 14 years as a Boston City Councilor, and was President of the body from 2009 to 2010. In 2013, he entered the race for mayor, sharing a bold vision for the city’s future. Mike’s legal practice has focused on the successful permitting ...
Tom Zuber - Zuber Lawler LLP

Tom Zuber – Zuber Lawler LLP

Tom Zuber is a founder and the Managing Partner of Zuber Lawler. Zuber Lawler represents clients throughout the world from offices in Austin, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, New York, Phoenix, and Silicon Valley. Zuber Lawler represents clients most often on the areas of M&A, finance and other deals; IPOs; intellectual property; FDA, import/export, bankruptcy, and other regulatory work; and litigation and investigations. Zuber Lawler’s attorneys work in languages covering 90% ...
Jonathan Storper – Hanson Bridgett

Jonathan Storper – Hanson Bridgett

Jonathan Storper leads the firm’s Cannabis Law practice, and since California’s legalization of marijuana in 2018 has worked with cannabis companies and their investors in connection with business transactions, including formation, local and state licensing, finance, contracts, licenses, joint venture and development, mergers and acquisitions, licensing, e-commerce, technology-related matters and general corporate law. Jonathan recently represented cannabis companies in large financing and M&A transactions that include publicly traded companies from ...
Eric Berlin - Dentons

Eric Berlin – Dentons

Eric Berlin leads the US and global Cannabis teams at Dentons, the world’s largest law firm. Widely recognized as one of the nation’s leading authorities on cannabis and hemp law, Eric dedicates 100 percent of his work to clients involved in, or impacted by, the legal cannabis or hemp industries. He has worked on some of the industry’s biggest deals and counsels several of the top companies in the cannabis ...
Lisa L. Pittman, Esq Pittman Legal

Lisa L. Pittman, Esq Pittman Legal

Lisa Pittman focuses on litigation, regulatory compliance, and corporate matters. Throughout Ms. Pittman’s 25-year career, she has litigated and tried disputes relating to labor & employment, breach of contract, commercial banking, fraud, fiduciary duty, construction defect and injury, deceptive trade practices, premises liability, professional liability, and products liability. She also possesses extensive expertise in complex commercial insurance coverage matters, having both defended insurance companies and advocated for policy holders in ...
David Feldman - Feldman Legal Advisors

David Feldman – Feldman Legal Advisors

David N. Feldman concentrates his law practice on corporate and securities law and mergers and acquisitions, as well as general representation of public and private companies, entrepreneurs, investors, and private equity and venture capital firms. David has represented a wide range of clients in the legal cannabis and psychedelics industries since 2013. He provides guidance on private placements, public offerings, loan structuring and fund formation for cannabis companies, as well ...
Peter Homberg – Dentons

Peter Homberg – Dentons

Peter Homberg is a partner in the Dentons Berlin office. He focuses on life sciences, IP, corporate law and M&A transactions in the life sciences and high-tech sector as well as in R&D and cooperation agreements, cross-border IP licensing and IP strategies. Furthermore, he has extensive experience providing legal advice on compliance issues. Additionally, he is the head of the European Cannabis sector group. Peter advises companies in the pharmaceutical, ...
Alan Adcock - Tilleke & Gibbins

Alan Adcock – Tilleke & Gibbins

Alan Adcock is a partner in the Tilleke & Gibbins intellectual property and regulatory affairs groups, helping to oversee the firm’s client work in these areas across ASEAN. He is recognized as a leading intellectual property lawyer based on his handling of corporate IP matters, including licensing and acquisitions, and his knowledge in life sciences, fluency in Mandarin, and outstanding client service. Since 2005, Alan has received recognition by Asialaw ...
Steven F. Groce

Steven F. Groce

Member of the Missouri Bar, the Texas Bar, and the Bar of the United States Supreme Court Juries Doctorate (JD) Law, University of Missouri, at Kansas City - Graduated 1984 38 years Experience in Criminal Defense. Practice primarily devoted to DWI (Alcohol and/or Drug) Intoxication, including Cannabis; and also Defending all Cannabis related cases, for Possession, Cultivation, Distribution, etc. Consulting for both the Legal Cannabis Industry and Proposed Cannabis businesses, ...
Neil Willner - Royer Cooper Cohen Braunfeld

Neil Willner – Royer Cooper Cohen Braunfeld

Neil M. Willner is Co-chair of the Cannabis Group. He focuses his practice on the cannabis industry and provides counsel to hemp and marijuana companies across all parts of the supply chain on regulatory and compliance issues. Neil also handles regulatory compliance, investigatory due diligence, mergers and acquisitions, and litigation matters for firm clients. He advises buyers and sellers on regulatory considerations in mergers and acquisitions in many East Coast ...
Neil K. Juneja – Gleam law

Neil K. Juneja – Gleam law

Neil Juneja is a business and intellectual property attorney. He is the founder and managing partner of Gleam Law, a law firm headquartered in Seattle, WA. His impeccable track record and years of experience in the formation, growth, and exit strategies of business throughout the world as well as navigating the complexities of patents, trademarks, and copyrights. Neil has made particular accolades in his cannabis practice helping hundreds of businesses ...
Rod Kight - Kight on Cannabis

Rod Kight – Kight on Cannabis

Rod is a cannabis business law attorney. Based in North Carolina and Mexico, Rod represents legal cannabis businesses throughout the world and is editor and chief writer of the Kight On Cannabis law blog (www.kightoncannabis.com). Rod is the author of “Cannabis Business Law-What You Need to Know”, published by Aspatore Books in August 2015. He has served on the advisory board and written a legal column for the American Journal ...
Priya Sopori - Greenberg Glusker

Priya Sopori – Greenberg Glusker

Priya Sopori is founder and co-chair of Greenberg Glusker’s Cannabis Industry Group and a member of the firm’s Litigation Group. Priya’s legal savvy and deep courtroom experience—both as an award-winning veteran federal prosecutor and in substantial private practice—enable her to provide clients with the skilled representation and counsel they need during high-stakes trial and crisis situations. As a former Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Central District of California, she indicted ...
Richard Y. Cheng - Ritter Spencer Cheng, PLLC

Richard Y. Cheng – Ritter Spencer Cheng, PLLC

Richard Y. Cheng, a managing member at Ritter Spencer Cheng PLLC and brings a wealth of experience and expertise in corporate transactions, regulatory, compliance matters, specifically to the cannabis and healthcare industries. Through his traditional healthcare practice, Richard ventured into the cannabis industry in 2013. His contributions to the cannabis industry have been significant, representing a variety of clients (e.g. cultivators, investors, manufacturers, retailers, healthcare providers, third-party business) and earning ...
Samantha Myers – Gowling WLG (UK) LLP

Samantha Myers – Gowling WLG (UK) LLP

Samantha is a partner in Gowling WLG's Corporate Group and is head of the firm's UK Cannabis Group. She specialises in corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions and equity capital markets. With extensive experience of acting for companies, or their advisers, on IPOs and secondary transactions, Samantha regularly advises on a range of domestic and cross border M&A transactions, including public takeovers. She also has significant experience in a range of ...
David Holland - Prince Lobel Tye LLP

David Holland – Prince Lobel Tye LLP

David C. Holland is a partner and a member of Prince Lobel’s Business Litigation and Cannabis practice groups. David is a highly sought-after civil and criminal litigation attorney who has an extensive background in representing a broad range of stakeholders in the cannabis industry.  He is the Executive and Legal Director of Empire State NORML, the New York State affiliate of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws ...
Craig Small - Clark Hill

Craig Small – Clark Hill

Craig Small has more than 12 years of experience practicing cannabis law and litigation. As one of the first lawyers in the State of Colorado to dedicate his practice to cannabis law, he has worked with clients to develop best practices within the cannabis industry to achieve maximum business performance and strict regulatory compliance. His main practice areas include M&A transactions, intellectual property protection, and regulatory compliance, but his work ...
Dr. Atthachai Homhuan  –  Tilleke & Gibbins

Dr. Atthachai Homhuan – Tilleke & Gibbins

As director of the regulatory affairs department at Tilleke & Gibbins, Dr. Atthachai Homhuan leads the firm’s cannabis team. He helps agriculture, life sciences, pharmaceutical, food and beverage, cosmetics and herbal products, and cannabis clinic and dispensary companies understand Thailand’s ongoing legal reforms for cannabis business activities, and advises some of the world’s leading cannabis companies on a wide range of business operations and strategy for product registrations, technology transfer, ...
Mitchel C. Chargo  - Hinshaw

Mitchel C. Chargo – Hinshaw

Mitchel Chargo represents clients in a wide array of matters related to the state of Minnesota's newly enacted adult recreational use cannabis program, including regulatory and compliance matters, licensing, financing, commercial real estate, and corporate governance. He also represents a Native American entity in a Native American medicinal cannabis program and adult recreational use program, as well as clients in the hemp industry, including manufacturers of hemp products. Prior to ...
Thomas Howard - Collateral Base, LLC

Thomas Howard – Collateral Base, LLC

Thomas Howard became a stockbroker after law school in 2008. The next year, he became licensed to practice law in Illinois and began a complex financial litigation practice with community banks and private equity funds as his clients. In 2010, he wrote a book about the nation’s cannabis laws and began building an online audience that has grown to the hundreds of thousands. By 2015, Illinois had legalized cannabis and ...
Nicola Finnerty - Kingsley Napley

Nicola Finnerty – Kingsley Napley

Nicola is a leading criminal defence expert in white collar and business crime, general criminal defence, and proceeds of crime and asset forfeiture. Nicola advises corporates and individuals (both in the UK and overseas) on cannabis investment in particular in respect of the UK Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 White Collar Crime, Business Crime, Fraud and Investigations Over the last 25 years she has been involved in many of the ...
Mollie Hartman Lustig -  McLaughlin & Stern

Mollie Hartman Lustig – McLaughlin & Stern

Mollie Hartman Lustig is the Chair of McLaughlin and Stern’s Cannabis Practice Group. Mollie’s clients include cannabis business operators, management service operators, cannabis vendors and cannabis investors. Her practice focuses on providing regulatory, licensing (both State and Local), and business/transactional counsel to clients. Mollie has been a member of the NJSBA’s Cannabis Law Special Committee (“CLSC”) since 2017 and is serving as the Secretary of the Committee for the 2023-2024 ...
Robert Becher - Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP

Robert Becher – Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP

Rob has represented both plaintiffs and defendants in high-stakes business litigation and arbitration matters for over twenty years. He is the Chair of Quinn Emanuel’s Cannabis Litigation Practice Group.  Rob has represented cannabis clients involved in retail, cultivation, and private equity as well as CEOs, founders and corporate directors.  Rob has successfully litigated all types of business disputes, including shareholder litigation, directors and officers litigation, merger and acquisition litigation, private ...
David Feder - Weed Law

David Feder – Weed Law

I’m a New York and New Jersey licensed business and litigation attorney assisting clients with transactions, start ups, contracts, dispute resolution and virtually all areas of the cannabis industry, including securing competitive business licenses. Since 2010 I have represented clients involved in complex lawsuits, transactions, business partnerships and acquisitions. I solve challenging problems and manage complex projects independently or as part of teams with other c-level executives, attorneys and/or other ...
Rachel Gillette - Holland & Hart

Rachel Gillette – Holland & Hart

A leading cannabis-focused lawyer, Rachel helps clients nationwide proactively plan and implement strategies to capitalize on strategic business opportunities. At the vanguard of the retail marijuana industry, Rachel leverages more than a decade of experience guiding clients to establish, expand, and protect profitable businesses in a rapidly-evolving legal, regulatory, and financial environment. From years of interacting with regulators and taxing authorities Rachel knows how state and local provisions will be ...
Jeffrey Hoffman

Jeffrey Hoffman

Jeffrey is a cannabis attorney and legalization activist with over 25 years of experience starting, operating, advising, and selling businesses. His legal practice focuses entirely on cannabis, including licensees in the adult-use cannabis market, patients and practitioners in the medical cannabis space, and cannabis adjacent product and service providers. He has a particular interest in justice involved individuals as well as social and economic equity cannabis license applicants. In this ...
Justin Swanson - Bose McKinney & Evans

Justin Swanson – Bose McKinney & Evans

Justin Swanson is a partner with Bose McKinney & Evans and the chair of the firm’s Cannabis practice group. He is at the forefront of the cannabis industry and has developed a unique multi-dimensional government affairs practice that leverages his public policy expertise with traditional legal skills to effectively advance the interests of his diverse set of clients from small towns to Fortune 500 companies. In 2019, the Indiana Lawyer recognized Swanson as an ...
Daniel Haymann - MME

Daniel Haymann – MME

Daniel Haymann specialises in corporate and commercial law. Thanks to his extensive business experience, he has a good sense for new markets and understands the requirements for market launch and scale-up strategies. As an interdisciplinary and hands-on advisor, his focus is on investments, venture capital and financing transactions as well as regulatory issues in the healthcare and consumer goods sectors. He has been advising investors, start-ups, and vertically integrated companies ...
Dr Paul Crosio - Silk Legal

Dr Paul Crosio – Silk Legal

Paul is a highly experienced legal practitioner who specializes in corporate, labor, and administrative law. Over the past 25 years, Paul has been based in a number of countries across the Asia-Pacific region and has worked with a variety of different multinational corporations including Emerald Advisory LLC, MCI-Worldcom, Citibank, Telstra International, and LG-Philips Electronics, among others. Paul holds a Master’s in Business Administration from the University of Technology in Sydney, ...
Ricardo Geada - Lawrence Stephens

Ricardo Geada – Lawrence Stephens

Lawrence Stephens welcomed Ricardo as a Director to spearhead the Regulatory Solutions Department, leveraging his extensive legal expertise spanning over 16 years. With a strong background in both private practice and in-house roles, Ricardo has honed his skills in dispute resolution, with a specialized focus on regulatory and compliance matters within the cannabis-related business realm, as well as the Cryptoassets & Blockchain industry. Ricardo is a trusted advisor sought after ...
Susan Burns -  S Burns Legal PLLC

Susan Burns – S Burns Legal PLLC

Susan Burns is a business lawyer who specializes in guiding businesses using steady or rapid growth strategies depending on their needs. Her practice serves various industries from service providers, microbiology consultants, and tech startups, to innovative industries such as sustainable food businesses and cannabis farmers and sellers. Susan functions as the on-call business partner to her clients.. As general counsel and strategic business advisor she finds creative solutions to unexpected ...
Amy Rubenstein - Dentons

Amy Rubenstein – Dentons

Amy Rubenstein delivers thoughtful, pragmatic, and actionable legal guidance by listening to clients and bridging pathways to their goals. Throughout her two-decade career, Amy has crafted innovative legal solutions across highly regulated, ever-evolving industries (cannabis, chemical, pharmaceutical, insurance, manufacturing, and food & beverage). She brings business savvy, knowledge of key industry forces, and a perspective on emerging trends to every engagement. In addition, she zealously uncovers new avenues for clients, ...
Frank A. Segall - Burns & Levinson

Frank A. Segall – Burns & Levinson

Chairman of the Business & Finance Groups and Cannabis Business & Law Advisory, Frank A. Segall has been instrumental in building Burns & Levinson’s reputation as a go-to corporate law firm. With a strong finance and business operations background, he negotiates complex business deals, including mergers, acquisitions, sales, syndications, loans, restructuring, and equity investments. He works as outside general counsel to businesses worldwide and has deep expertise in a broad ...
Sean J. McGowan - Kaufman McGowan PLLC

Sean J. McGowan – Kaufman McGowan PLLC

Sean McGowan is a partner at Kaufman McGowan PLLC, Corporate & Securities Counsel to the State-Legal Cannabis Industry™ and one of the leading corporate cannabis law firms in New York and the USA.  Mr. McGowan and his firm combine decades of practicing corporate and securities law at the highest levels with 9+ years of extensive cannabis industry experience.  Mr. McGowan represents a wide variety of cannabis companies (including several of ...
Daniel T. McKillop - Scarinci Hollenbeck

Daniel T. McKillop – Scarinci Hollenbeck

Dan McKillop has served as Chair of the Firm’s Cannabis Law and Psychedelics Law Practice Group since 2016. He has twenty years of experience in all aspects of environmental law and litigation. Dan leads a team of attorneys from our various practice areas who assist clients seeking medical or adult-use cannabis licenses and provide counsel regarding current and proposed federal and state medical and adult-use cannabis laws and regulations.  Dan was ...
James K Landau - Prince Lobel Tye LLP

James K Landau – Prince Lobel Tye LLP

Jim Landau is a partner and a member of  the firm’s Business Litigation and Cannabis practice groups.  Jim represents clients in litigation before Federal, New York State and Local courts and other tribunals, including arbitration and mediation before the American Arbitration Association. Jim’s practice also focuses on providing day-to-day business counseling to cannabis and other businesses with an eye toward avoiding problems before they arise.  Jim has become a thought ...
Neil M. Kaufman - Kaufman McGowan PLLC

Neil M. Kaufman – Kaufman McGowan PLLC

Neil M. Kaufman, is the managing member of Kaufman McGowan PLLC, Corporate & Securities Counsel to the State-Legal Cannabis Industry™ and one of the leading corporate cannabis law firms in New York and the USA.  He combines over 35 years of practicing corporate and securities law at the highest levels with 9+ years of extensive cannabis industry experience.  Mr. Kaufman represents a wide variety of cannabis companies (including several of ...
Pamela Bubb - Webber Newdigate Attorneys

Pamela Bubb – Webber Newdigate Attorneys

Pamela Bubb is a partner and head of the Corporate and Commercial Department of Webber Newdigate Attorneys in Lesotho. Pamela focuses on commercial law and has a keen interest in cannabis matters. She and her team are involved in providing a broad range of commercial services including due diligence investigations, foreign exchange, advising international and local clients on cross-border taxation matters, along with drafting and vetting contracts. Pamela: Assists new ...
Joseph Bondy  - The Law Offices of Joseph A. Bondy

Joseph Bondy – The Law Offices of Joseph A. Bondy

The Law Offices of Joseph A. Bondy is a cannabis business, cannabis licensing, and criminal defense law firm, located in New York City. Mr. Bondy represents numerous individuals and corporations in the adult-use cannabis and hemp industry, and defends clients in complex criminal cases, in both the federal and state courts. Mr. Bondy is admitted to practice law in the State of New York, the United States District Courts for ...
John McGowan - Kinner & McGowan PLLC

John McGowan – Kinner & McGowan PLLC

Johnny McGowan is a founding member and managing partner of Kinner & McGowan, PLLC.  K&M is a boutique law firm based in Washington, D.C. with a practice focus on cannabis law. As industry counsel, K&M has worked with state licensed medical cannabis companies, medical caregivers, patients, ancillary cannabis service providers, industrial hemp companies and ganjapreneurs since 2015. Johnny McGowan received a B.A. from Louisiana State University, and a J.D. from New ...
Scot Crow - Dickinson Wright PLLC

Scot Crow – Dickinson Wright PLLC

Scot Crow (Member, Columbus) is General Corporate, M&A, and Private Equity Practice Group Chair and a Board Member at Dickinson-Wright PLLC.  Scot is also the Co-Founder of the Cannabis Practice, which launched over 10 years ago and includes more than 50 attorneys providing advice to clients in the cannabis sector. He has extensive experience in corporate, mergers and acquisitions, and tax law, with a particular emphasis on regulated industries (healthcare, ...
Kai-Friedrich Niermann

Kai-Friedrich Niermann

Kai has been a business and corporate lawyer in Germany since 2003, gaining wide range of experiences in the process. He is very familiar with the interconnectivity between national and European regulations, especially in regard to consumer protection, product safety and emerging new cannabis products. He has engaged in advocacy relating to cannabis beginning in early stages of his studies at Philipps University Marburg when the German Supreme Court ruled ...
Sarah Lee - Gossett Parrish

Sarah Lee – Gossett Parrish

Sarah Lee Gossett Parrish (www.slgparrishlaw.com) is a third-generation attorney. She has achieved Martindale-Hubbel’s highest AV Preeminent™ rating for peer and judicial review, and has been selected to the Bar Register of Preeminent Women Lawyers™. The National Law Journal named Sarah Lee one of its 2019 Cannabis Trailblazers, and her law firm was voted the Top Cannabis Business Law Firm in the State of Oklahoma in The Journal Record’s Readers Choice Awards four ...
Ricardo Costa Macedo - Caiado Guerreiro

Ricardo Costa Macedo – Caiado Guerreiro

Ricardo Costa Macedo is a partner at Caiado Guerreiro since 2006. He heads the Intellectual Property and Life Sciences groups of the firm. His practice covers a wide range of contentious and non-contentious patent, trademark and other IP-related rights, such as trade secrets and unfair competition, in particular in the pharmaceutical, home care, food and insurance sectors. Moreover, he has vast knowledge in regulatory matters in these sectors. Recognition As ...
Alexander Buscher - Buscher Law LLC

Alexander Buscher – Buscher Law LLC

Alex Buscher founded Buscher Law LLC in 2018 to provide legal advice to cannabis & hemp companies in Colorado and quickly realized most lawyers, bankers, and insurance companies were still not willing to take a risk on the legalized industry. This led to an expansion of practice areas in-house and an in-depth understanding of a wide array of separate yet interconnected areas of the law including business, real estate, asset ...
Shay Aaron Gilmore  -  The Law Office of Shay Aaron Gilmore

Shay Aaron Gilmore – The Law Office of Shay Aaron Gilmore

Shay Aaron Gilmore is a leading cannabis business attorney in California and a recognized expert in corporate and commercial transactions throughout the cannabis supply chain. Shay works exclusively with cannabis operators and investors on regulatory, administrative law, real estate, land use, corporate, labor & employment, and intellectual property matters, providing advice and counsel honed to protect and expand access to cannabis. Shay has been recognized by The Los Angeles/San Francisco ...
Aaron Pelley – Cultiva Law

Aaron Pelley – Cultiva Law

Aaron Pelley is a veritable celebrity in both his achievements as a lawyer, and advocate of cannabis business for over a decade. Having made sizable contributions to the foundation of legal protections surrounding medicinal cannabis law, his passion in this new realm of law drove him forward. This saw the creation of Cultiva and the subsequent creation of a boutique law firm that lies on the pulse of current cannabis ...
Laura Cardeño

Laura Cardeño

Laura Cardeño has been working in cannabis practice. She specializes in contracts and is a magister in commercial law, with knowledge in regulatory matters in the cannabis industry and advises investors, start-ups, and vertically integrated companies throughout the value chain. Before on board the cannabis industry, she gained over 11 years of experience in developing infrastructure and agroindustry projects in sectors such as oil, gas, and biofuels on base sugar ...
Chelsie Spencer – Ritter Spencer Cheng, PLLC

Chelsie Spencer – Ritter Spencer Cheng, PLLC

Forbes Magazine dubbed Chelsie Spencer the “rare friendly face in the midst of a cutthroat CBD hurricane, the person you want on speed dial when things turn sour” for her work in the cannabidiol (CBD) industry. As head of the cannabis practice at Ritter Spencer PLLC, Chelsie represents clients in every facet of the cannabis and hemp industries, including dispensaries, growers, processors, manufacturers, retailers, and more for their business needs ...
Janet E. Jackim - Zuber Lawler LLP

Janet E. Jackim – Zuber Lawler LLP

Janet Jackim, who received the AV-Preeminent® Rating from Martindale-Hubbell®, focuses on real estate acquisitions and leasing; equity and debt financing; loan workouts; and cannabis acquisitions, dispositions, and other deals. Ms. Jackim supplements her legal insight with advanced technical, operational and financial acumen particular to the cannabis industry. Her problem-solving creativity aids in resolving complex issues for her rapidly-expanding cannabis clients. Ms. Jackim is particularly well-versed in the cannabis space.  She ...

Featured Firms – 2023/2024

Prince Lobel Tye LLP

Prince Lobel Tye LLP

Prince Lobel has been an industry leader in advising cannabis businesses for over a decade.  Our attorneys are well-versed in the ever changing and complex state and federal laws governing cannabis. Our clients include licensed entities such as dispensaries, cultivators, manufacturers, and delivery companies, and related entities such as mezzanine lenders, software developers, equipment providers, property owners and investors. We have advised clients in Massachusetts, New York, Missouri, Georgia Florida, ...
Dentons

Dentons

Dentons is designed to be different. Across over 80 countries, Dentons helps you grow, protect, operate and finance your organization by providing uniquely global and deeply local legal solutions. Polycentric, purpose-driven and committed to inclusion, diversity, equity and sustainability, we focus on what matters most to you. What makes Dentons different? We’re polycentric. Dentons has no headquarters and no dominant national culture. We proudly offer clients talent from diverse backgrounds ...
Cultiva Law

Cultiva Law

We provided strategic legal counsel that contributed to the legalization of medical cannabis and protections for those who provide and use it. We were active participants in developing the policies and legal structures that created the thriving adult-use cannabis markets across the country. As advocates for the industry and culture of cannabis, we understand why our clients choose the bigger risks and less certain rewards of the cannabis industry. Because ...
Dickinson Wright PLLC

Dickinson Wright PLLC

At Dickinson Wright, we define success by our clients’ metrics. Across our 40 practice areas, our team of over 475 lawyers has an unwavering focus on providing unmatched client service and the highest quality legal advice. We are proactive and accessible, providing practical solutions and actionable advice. We are always mindful that we must earn our reputation each and every day by delivering results that speak for themselves. As a ...


Cannabis Lawyers – Commended Listings


Karen Albence – Cultiva Law

Karen Albence – Cultiva Law

Los Angeles Cannabis Lawyer Karen Albence practices in the state of California for Cultiva Law and has cases and vast experience in numerous counties all over California. She also has litigated and is licensed to practice in Hawaii. Karen concentrates in litigation, and is experienced in all phases of civil and commercial litigation. However, she also has many years of experience in other litigation areas that relate to the unique ...
Kristen Westphal - Cultiva Law

Kristen Westphal – Cultiva Law

Kristin is a versatile litigator with a breadth and depth of legal experience that can only be gained by getting in the trenches and taking cases to trial. Always up for a challenge, Kristin has practiced as far south as Alabama, and as far west as Hawaii. She has currently made California her home base. Having represented both plaintiffs and defendants in corporate, business, construction, intellectual property and trademark litigation ...
Aaron John - Cultiva Law

Aaron John – Cultiva Law

Aaron’s practice centers around zealously representing clients through the litigation and regulatory landscape all the way from inception through post-litigation and everywhere in between. Prior to joining Cultiva Law, PLLC, Mr. John’s practice focused on litigation and regulatory compliance including the areas of both first and third party insurance defense, real estate, creditor rights, foreclosure, bankruptcy, and criminal defense. Through the years Mr. John has represented individual and corporate clients ...
Courtney N. Moran - EARTH Law, LLC

Courtney N. Moran – EARTH Law, LLC

Courtney N. Moran, LL.M., Founding Principal of EARTH Law, LLC, and Chief Legislative Strategist for Agricultural Hemp Solutions, LLC, expertly champions forward-thinking policy for hemp agribusiness success. She worked closely with the offices of Senators Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Ron Wyden (D-OR) in drafting and negotiating the Hemp Farming Act of 2018 the language included in the 2018 Farm Bill federally legalizing hemp in the United States. Courtney is a ...
Elijah Hartman - Cultiva Law

Elijah Hartman – Cultiva Law

Elijah Hartman, Cannabis Trademark Lawyer, is dedicated to crafting meaningful and lasting legal solutions for his clients. effective legal assistance requires an understanding of each client’s unique business and personal realities. As an attorney, Elijah understands the uniqueness of each client, and has provided a wide range of legal services to a wide range of clients for nearly a decade. His practice areas have included intellectual property innovation, trademark, copyright, ...
Joshua S. Bauchner - Mandelbaum Barrett PC

Joshua S. Bauchner – Mandelbaum Barrett PC

Joshua S. Bauchner, Esq., serves as the Chair of the Cannabis and Psychedelics Practice Group at Mandelbaum Barrett PC, where he maintains offices in both Roseland, New Jersey, and New York City. He also is a member of the Commercial Litigation and Bankruptcy Practice Groups. A well-known force in this evolving area of law, Joshua counsels investors entrepreneurs, growers, distributors, and retailers on real estate, regulatory, corporate, tax, and employment ...
Thomas Butcher – Cultiva Law

Thomas Butcher – Cultiva Law

Portland Oregon Cannabis Lawyer Thomas Butcher combines a strong passion for litigation and hard work to reach the best outcome for his clients on a daily basis. In his legal practice, Thomas’ focus is in the representation of clients, ranging from farmers, processors and retail owners. With a background in corporate transactions and regulatory compliance, he brings his broad expertise to help clients during every stage of business development, growth ...