The Thompson Coburn Cannabis team has extensive experience collaborating with leading cannabis companies, often assuming significant in-house and outside general counsel roles. As the cannabis industry continues to mature, innovators and investors must navigate local and state regulations, alongside the conflicting federal laws, that create numerous challenges for the industry.
Addressing the unique hurdles of cannabis firms demands specific insight. We draw on our deep knowledge of the industry’s complexities, as well as the full range of practice areas at the firm, to provide clients with the robust and comprehensive representation they need.
The cannabis industry is constantly evolving as laws and regulations shift. Our attorneys are deeply invested in advancing the long-term interests of the industry, providing creative, precise, and cost-effective legal counsel to cannabis businesses. Our attorneys represent marijuana producers, sellers, and investors in their formation, operations, and transactions. Our support extends to providing cannabis law guidance to property owners, equipment providers, insurers, software companies, and consulting firms. Our clients also gain access to our vast network of industry contacts, allowing them to forge valuable connections.
The scope of the firm’s cannabis-related services varies from state to state, depending upon the applicable legal ethics guidance in each jurisdiction.
fully serving the cannabis industry
We are different from most attorneys serving the cannabis industry. We not only have the industry-specific experience required to service this sector, but we also draw on the depth of the firm’s lawyers nationwide. As a full-service law firm, we are uniquely positioned to assist cannabis companies in a wide variety of areas, including:
- Intellectual property (including trademarks, copyrights, patent applications and patent litigation)
- Product liability litigation and consultation
- Regulatory compliance
- Business litigation
- Class action defense
- Product warnings, labeling, and packaging
- FDA compliance (including food/additive labeling and safety, as well as facility registration)
- Licensing and permits (including cultivators, manufacturers and dispensaries)
- Pesticide, herbicide and fungicide litigation/consultation
- Health care law
- Private investment
- Corporate (including business formation and general legal advice)
- Labor and employment/human resources
- Real estate and zoning/land use
- Federal lobbying and policy
Having years of industry experience, we understand the cannabis industry and its complexities.
We offer our clients a depth of cannabis industry experience matched with firmwide capabilities.
Our cannabis team works closely with the firm’s full range of practice areas, offering our clients comprehensive representation.
We make connections. Our clients benefit from our vast network of industry contacts.
