Corporate Law and Litigation

Strategic and unconventional counsel:

• Legal counsel for established businesses, startup and mid-stage ventures, social entrepreneurs, and thought leaders, with creative meta-strategies for empowering clients to prevail with grace beyond crisis or conventional odds
• Low bono resource for America's farmers in industrial hemp and agricultural operations
• Pandemic recovery, and hurricane and wildfire insurance recovery, and public affairs in disaster assistance 
• Dispute prevention and resolution, and systemic process design and implementation

We seldom simply bill hourly, but based on results. We begin by assessing the big picture and making sure estimated project costs meet your budget, working together from there to sharpen our services and execution.  

Look beyond basic strategy:

• Sturdy catapults to self-propelling revenue and capital for enterprises with everything at stake and no margin for error
• Inspired planning that puts first the enterprise’s mission, people and culture, reputation, customer engagement, and profitability
• Focus on executive team, supply chain, consolidating market power and optimizing resilience
• Community economic empowerment 
• Peace of mind in all aspects of how you run your business

Our craft is game-changing legal, organizational, policy-influencing, media, and empowerment solutions. When the ground is shifting, we help you regain control and build catapults to breakthroughs studied by others.  

Collaboration, fair treatment and trust:

• USDA—Crop insurance, methodologies for measuring THC content, hemp animal feed
• FDA—Nonprofit, trade group, and CBD/X company representation 
• States and localities—Cannabis/hemp policymaking that achieves childhood and adolescent safety while propelling new dimensions of equity and prosperity
• Banking—Community-centered banking solutions, smart growth, and social impact
• Pandemic and disaster recovery—FEMA, SBA, federal, state and local public affairs

For example, we are committed to working with USDA to fine-tune the THC testing methodologies for hemp crops. This is one part of the wide and complex field of hemp as a commodity. Our mission is building a strong and reliable industrial hemp marketplace, which empowers farmers. 

Similarly, it’s important to develop collaborative relationships with FDA, so that responsible trade groups, CBD/X companies, and nonprofits are engaged in creating rules for the good of the industry and public.

More urgently, we are growing our public affairs practice on a low bono basis for small businesses—to eradicate the unfolding financial hardships from the covid pandemic.