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, along with handling related litigation.

Mollie has been a member of the NJSBA’s Cannabis and Psychedelic Law Special Committee (“CPLSC”) since 2017 and is serving as the Secretary of the Committee for the 2024-2025 year, and is the Co-Chair of the CPLSC’s Social Justice and Equity Subcommittee. She is extremely proud of the Social Justice and Equity Subcommittee’s work which culminated in a letter to the Administrative Office of the Courts regarding expungement processes in New Jersey and critical issues that must be addressed. She has been and continues to be an NJICLE lecturer, speaking on topics including Diversely Held Businesses, Municipal Approvals, Sustainability and Labor Peace Agreements, Landlord/Tenant issues in cannabis, regulatory updates, has been a guest lecturer at the Yale Club, and is a frequent presenter for NJ.com’s Cannabis Insider programming.

Mollie is an instructor at Rutgers Law School Certificate for their Cannabis Law and Business Certificate Program;  and was an invited panelist at Howard University Law School, Human and Civil Rights Law Review’s 8th Annual C. Clyde Ferguson Symposium.

Mollie was named a Super Lawyers Rising Star in the area of Cannabis Law for 2022 and 2023; the NJ Insider’s Top 100 Cannabis Power List (2022); was awarded NJ.com’s 2023 Cannabis Award for Excellence in Cannabis Law: Municipal Law and was nominated in the category of Excellence in Cannabis Law: Applications. She also brought home the award for Excellence in Cannabis Law for the Firm. This is her second year named to the Global Top 200 Cannabis Lawyers by Cannabis Law Report and Cannabis Law Journal.

Mollie continues to practice traditional civil litigation with a focus on suits involving governmental entities. Mollie has appeared before myriad vicinages and divisions of the New Jersey Superior Court, the Federal District Court for the District of New Jersey, the New Jersey Public Employment Relations Commission, and Office of Administrative Law. Mollie has been named as a Super Lawyers Rising Star since 2019 for her work in the Employment and Labor field.

Articles

• June 12, 2024: How Will the Federal Reclassification of Marijuana Affect New Jersey’s Cannabis Industry? (New Jersey Law Journal)
• April 3, 2024: Tenants Seek to Join NJ Rent Control Exemption Suit (Law360)
• March 5, 2024: 3^rd Circ. Cannabis Case May Leave NJ Employers in Limbo (Law360)
• December 6, 2022: What are cannabis consumption lounges and when will we see them in N.J.? (msn.com)
• December 6, 2022: Rutgers Law Partnership Provides Free Cannabis Education (Law360)
• June 21, 2022: The Morristown Cannabis Licensing Process Raises Questions: The Morristown Cannabis Licensing Process Raises Questions (headynj.com)

Published/Unpublished Cases

• Om 309-311 6th St. v. City of Union City, No. 21-12051 (KM) (JRA), 2022 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 51999, at *1 (D.N.J. Mar. 23, 2022)

• Superior Court of New Jersey – Appellate Division Docket No. A-3742-19 City of Union City, By and Through Alejandro Velazquez, as Public Officer v. Christopher Williams, Suez Water New Jersey, Inc., Public Service Electric and Gas Company, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. Submitted March 14, 2023 – Decided June 2, 2023 Superior Court of New Jersey – Appellate Division Docket No. A-2813-13T4

• Kanauss v. City of Burlington, No. 1:19-cv-06474-RMB-JS, 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 178432 (D.N.J. Sep. 28, 2020)

• Magnani v. Northvale Zoning Bd. of Adjustment, 2018 N.J. Super. Unpub. LEXIS 5994

• Kui v. Bergen Cty. Prosecutor’s Office, No. A-1155-14T4, 2016 N.J. Super. Unpub. LEXIS 1204 (App. Div. May 25, 2016)

• Hillsborough Props., L.L.C. v. Twp. of Hillsborough, No. A-2209-13T2, 2015 N.J. Super. Unpub. LEXIS 1504 (App. Div. June 23, 2015)

• Martha Greenblatt and Martin Greenblatt v. Construction Board of Appeals, Jack Marold, Barry Van Horn, John Cilo, Jr., Steven Rodzinak, David Meyers, Howard Klein, and Borough of North Plainfield Submitted January 21, 2015 – Decided February 23, 2015 On appeal from Superior Court of New Jersey, Law Division, Somerset County, Docket No. L-1332-12 Superior Court Of New Jersey – Appellate Division Docket No. A-0

• Captain and Former Acting Chief Raymond Cox v. Jennifer Blumenthal, City Manager, and the City of Brigantine Submitted March 25, 2015 – Decided May 4, 2015 On appeal from Superior Court of New Jersey, Law Division, Atlantic County, Docket No. L-3514-13.

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