Cannabis

• Business Law

  Business Entity Formation

  Greenspoon Marder can assist you in determining which corporate formation is right for you. From sole-proprietorships to limited liability companies, our team can assist in every aspect of forming and operating your business entity, including LLC, Non-Profit, and Corporate Business Formation. Our legal services include:

  • Corporate Entity Selection
  • Filing Articles of Organization with the Secretary of State
  • Filing Articles of Incorporation
  • Drafting Corporate Bylaws
  • Filing Statement of Trade Name
  • Secure Business Filing Set-up
  • Requests for Federal Employer Identification Numbers
  • Registration of Trademarks
  • Business Planning
  • Tax Elections
  • Registered Agent Services
  • Drafting of Operating Agreements
  • Tax Licensing
  • Business Licensing and Compliance

  Corporate Law and Contracts

  Most business transactions are conducted through the use of contracts. A contract is a binding agreement between two parties that sets terms for the transaction, including price, delivery and quantity of items to be sold. For business owners, it is essential to know what to do if you entered a contract and things haven’t turned out the way you expected. Greenspoon Marder has experience handling contract cases, and can provide you with the knowledgeable assistance you need and the skills you need to succeed.

  Contract Drafting and Review Services

  Our team provides contract-based services for our clients, including contract drafting, contract review, enforcement, and revision and modification of existing contracts. We are committed to helping our clients’ businesses thrive, and dedicated to helping you achieve the results you desire.

  Breach of Contract

  If one party to a contract does not live up to their side of the bargain, it is known as breach of contract, and the other party can sue for any damages that resulted from the breach. These damages are not necessarily physical. They can also include profits lost on sales that fell through and time wasted in waiting for deliveries that did not arrive as promised.

  Breach of contract is a fairly common occurrence in the world of business, and happens for various reasons. Greenspoon Marder represents clients in many types of breach of contract cases, including:

  • Failure to Pay for a Product or Services
  • Failure to Deliver a Product or Services
  • Missed Deadlines
  • Failure to Meet the Terms of a Secondary Agreement, such as a Lease, Mortgage or Loan Document
  • Disputes Over Terms in the Contract
  • Disputes Between Partners or Workers
  • Work Stoppages

  Our firm also represents clients who have breached their contracts purposely in order to pursue alternatives. We help clients in this situation develop defenses for their actions and vigorously defend their rights.

• Tax Law

  Greenspoon Marder represents its clients before the IRS collections, appeals, and examinations divisions and state and local taxing authorities. Taxpayers are subject to a complex array of state and federal laws that can pose serious problems for their finances and for their businesses. Our firm helps find the solutions you need to solve your tax problems. We have assisted clients across the US with their tax compliance matters. Whether you need help with tax debt negotiations with the IRS or your local or state taxing authority, tax planning, audit representation, tax protests, liens and levies, innocent spouse relief, installment agreements, or offers in compromise, we have the knowledge and experience to help you today.

  Our firm represents clients throughout the U.S.in many tax-related matters, including:

  • Tax Debt Relief
  • Tax Litigation and Representation
  • Tax Audit Protests
  • Tax Audit Representation
  • Substitute for Returns
  • Sales Tax Audits
  • IRS Related Issues
  • State and Local Tax Matters
  • Wage Garnishments
  • Penalty Abatements
  • Partial Pay Installment Agreements
  • Trust Fund Recovery Penalties
  • Liens and Levies
  • Income tax audits
  • Offers in Compromise
  • Delinquent Filing Issues
  • Installment Payment Agreements
  • Releases of Levies and Liens
  • Tax Amnesty Cases
  • Innocent Spouse Tax Relief Claims
  • Civil Tax Penalties
  • 280E

  Greenspoon Marder’s team of attorneys has years of experience handling compliance tax matters for individuals, businesses, estates, and corporations, including marijuana businesses. We analyze every element of your case to help protect your assets and can advise you on tax structures that comply with state and federal law. Our firm has extensive experience representing clients’ interests in front of the IRS and all 50 state’s tax agencies, and work tirelessly to ensure that you receive the best possible results. If you are facing an unjust tax or penalty assessment, our firm can help.

• Marijuana Law

  Greenspoon Marder’s team of attorneys has experience handling the complex and evolving system of laws and regulations governing medical marijuana patients, caregivers, and businesses.

  Our team assists medical marijuana patients and caregivers, and marijuana consumers and businesses navigate through constantly changing and complex system of state-by-state marijuana laws and regulations. Our firm has the knowledge and experience to assist you with all your legal issues related to the recreational or medical use of marijuana.

  Our firm can provide legal assistance with:

  • Marijuana Businesses
  • Marijuana Business Licensing and Compliance
  • Marijuana Patients and Consumers
  • Marijuana Business Zoning or Jurisdictional Concerns
  • Tax Debt or Tax Audits for Marijuana Businesses/Business Owners & 280e Concerns
  • Employment Laws and Employer Concerns
  • Marijuana Business Contracts and Transactions
  • Criminal Charges Involving the Use or Cultivation of Marijuana
  • CDPHE Patient and Caregiver Issues
  • Marijuana Business & Patient Advocacy
  • Medical Marijuana Enforcement Division (MMED) Inspections of MMCs or OPCs
  • Medical Marijuana Code

• Advocacy and Lobbying

  Greenspoon Marder works to serve the public interest and seeks the positive reform of marijuana laws. Our team utilizes the legal system to advocate for the rights of medical marijuana patients, caregivers, and adults who use marijuana responsibly. Our attorneys serve as advocates for the reform of current marijuana laws and have been active in supporting the passage of several state amendments.

• Cannabis Entertainment

  The Cannabis Entertainment Group combines the expertise of Greenspoon Marder’s Cannabis Law Group along with Greenspoon Marder’s Entertainment, Media & Technology Industry Group. Together they advise entertainment industry related clients on activities within the cannabis industry, including creating name-brand cannabis strains and other areas of the intersection between the entertainment and cannabis industries.

*Disclaimer: The materials found in this site are for general informational purposes only and are not for the purpose of providing legal advice or legal opinions on specific facts or circumstances. Though certain individual state constitutions and related marijuana codes and associated regulations allow medical and recreational marijuana businesses, marijuana sales, marijuana cultivation, and marijuana possession by certain qualified individuals and businesses, the sale, cultivation, use, and distribution of marijuana (including hemp) remains ILLEGAL under Federal law.

News

• Greenspoon Marder Partner Jessica Wasserman Featured Speaker For The Consumer Federation of America National Food Policy Conference
• Greenspoon Marder Senior Counsel Kristin Jordan Recognized By The Green Market Report As One Of The 100+ Most Important Women In Weed 2019
• Greenspoon Marder Supports Cannabis 101 At The Capitol
• Greenspoon Marder Partner Rachel Gillette To Be Featured Speaker at the Convenience Retailing University Conference
• Greenspoon Marder Hosts Kahner Global 2nd Annual Cannabis Private Investment Summit
• Greenspoon Marder Hosts the Proctor & Gamble Alumni Roundtable
• Greenspoon Marder Partner David Weisman Featured Speaker For The Florida Bar Webinar
• Greenspoon Marder Partner Rachel Gillette Recognized Among High Times “Women of Weed”
• Greenspoon Marder Supports the 2019 Arcview Investor Forum in Los Angeles
• Greenspoon Marder Announces Partnership with Green Table
• Greenspoon Marder Partner Rachel Gillette Recognized as a “Top Lawyer” by 5280 Magazine for 2019
• Greenspoon Marder Cannabis Client Awarded $8,800,000 Final Judgment
• Alcohol Beverage Producers See Potential in Cannabis and Cannabis Derived Products
• Greenspoon Marder Partner Heather Burke Featured Speaker at the State of Cannabis Conference
• Greenspoon Marder Supports the Cannabis World Congress and Business Expo in Los Angeles
• Greenspoon Marder Client Alert: First Federal Sentencing of Legal Marijuana Business Owner For Tax Crimes
• Greenspoon Marder Partner David Jaroslaw Featured Speaker At 2018 Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel Annual Meeting
• Greenspoon Marder Client Alert: Constellation Brands’ $3.8 Billion Investment Promises Growth & Consolidation for the Cannabis Industry
• Greenspoon Marder Supports the 2018 San Diego Reception in Support of the Cannabis Action PAC
• Greenspoon Marder Attorney Matthew Ginder Featured Panelist at Sup-X: The Startup Expo
• Greenspoon Marder Announces Partner Rachel Gillette As Chair of the Cannabis Law Group – Western Region
• Greenspoon Marder Attorney Lance Rogers Featured Speaker at the Humboldt County Growers Alliance’s Human Resources and Employment Law for Cannabis Business in California
• Greenspoon Marder Partner David Weisman Featured Speaker at Cannabis Leasing Seminar
• Greenspoon Marder Announces the Acquisition of The Liaison Group
• Greenspoon Marder and The Liaison Group To Hold Briefing To Discuss Federal Updates, Including Latest Major Cannabis Industry Win in the House Appropriations Committee
• Greenspoon Marder Hosts The 2018 Spring Policy Conference Presented by Florida For Care
• Greenspoon Marder and The National Law Journal to Host Cannabis Legalization Webinar
• Greenspoon Marder Hosts the Cannabis Private Investment Summit
• Greenspoon Marder Partner Amy Margolis Recognized as a “Women of Influence” by the Portland Business Journal for 2018
• Greenspoon Marder Supports Women Grow 2018 Leadership Summit
• Greenspoon Marder Partner Lance Rogers to be Featured Speaker at Cannabis Regulation CLE Seminar
• Greenspoon Marder Attorney Alicia Lewis to be Featured Speaker at Sarasota County Bar Association Florida Medical Marijuana Law for Estate Planning and Business Lawyers CLE Course
• Greenspoon Marder Supports The Institutional Capital & Cannabis Conference East (IC³)
• Greenspoon Marder Partner Rachel K. Gillette To Be Featured Speaker At 2018 Florida Institute Of CPAs Valuation, Forensic Accounting & Litigation Conference
• Greenspoon Marder Encourages Congress to Act to Protect the Cannabis Industry from Unnecessary Prosecution Under Individual U.S. Attorneys
• Greenspoon Marder Partner Rachel Gillette Recognized As A “Top Lawyer” By 5280 Magazine For 2018
• Greenspoon Marder Attorney Matthew Ginder Speaker At United Way Of Broward’s Tocqueville Tuesday
• Greenspoon Marder Attorneys Amy T. Margolis And Kristin Stankiewicz Featured Speakers At NBI Seminar
• Our Comments to the State Agencies: Ownership, Priority and Terpenes
• Greenspoon Marder Shareholder Amy Margolis Selected to the “75 Most Important Women in Cannabis” By Cannabis Business Executive for 2017
• Greenspoon Marder Supports the Dope Magazine Golden Ticket Party in Las Vegas
• Greenspoon Marder Supports the Fall 2017 Marijuana Business Conference & Expo in Las Vegas
• Greenspoon Marder Supports Cannabis Law, Accounting and Business Las Vegas Chapter Launch Party
• Greenspoon Marder Shareholder Rachel Gillette to be Featured Speaker at American Institute of Certified Public Accountants National Tax Conference
• FDA Crackdown on Medical Claims Made by CBD Companies
• Greenspoon Marder Partner Lance Rogers Featured Speaker at the State Bar of California Intellectual Property Law Section’s 42nd IP Institute
• Nevada Supreme Court Halts Distribution Licenses for Non-Alcohol Distributors
• Greenspoon Marder Shareholder Joseph S. Geller To Deliver Keynote Address at the City of North Miami’s Business Luncheon
• Where to Smoke: State Legislature Paves the Way for Consumption Lounges in Nevada
• Greenspoon Marder Shareholder Amy Margolis Selected to the “Political 100” by Cannabis Business Executive for 2017
• Greenspoon Marder Shareholder Rachel Gillette to Be Featured Speaker at AON Law Firm Symposium
• Greenspoon Marder Senior Counsel Neal Gidvani to be Featured Speaker At National Business Institute’s Recreational Marijuana Business Law Seminar
• Greenspoon Marder Presents Second Annual Cannabis Law, Accounting and Business Conference & Expo
• Greenspoon Marder Supports the Cannabis World Congress & Business Expo in Los Angeles
• Greenspoon Marder Shareholder Rachel Gillette To Be A Featured Speaker at the Economist’s Canada Summit 2017 in Montreal
• Greenspoon Marder To Co-Host “United Stance” To Bring Together Key Voices in Fighting Opioid Epidemic
• Greenspoon Marder Partner Heather L. Burke to be Featured Speaker at Legal Seminar on Cannabis Law in Nevada City
• Greenspoon Marder Hosts the American Planning Association’s (APA) Legislative Luncheon in Broward
• Greenspoon Marder Supports The Summer Fair in Portland
• Super Lawyers Oregon Recognizes Greenspoon Marder Shareholder Amy Margolis
• Greenspoon Marder Senior Counsel Neal Gidvani Speaker at Las Vegas Medical Marijuana Association Legal & Legislative Update
• Greenspoon Marder Expands Cannabis Law Practice in California with the Addition of Partner Heather L. Burke
• Greenspoon Marder Shareholder Rachel Gillette to Speak at The Florida Bar’s Annual Convention Masters Seminar on Ethics in 2017 Panel
• Greenspoon Marder Supports the Oregon Cannabis Association National Lobby Days in Washington, D.C.
• Greenspoon Marder Supports the Cannabis World Congress & Business Expo in New York
• Greenspoon Marder Shareholder Rachel Gillette Speaker At The NORML Aspen Legal Seminar
• Greenspoon Marder Shareholder Rachel Gillette To Speak At The Florida Bar’s Annual Convention Masters Seminar On Ethics In 2017 Panel
• Greenspoon Marder Supports the Spring 2017 Marijuana Business Conference & Expo in Washington, D.C.
• Greenspoon Marder Shareholder Rachel Gillette Chosen As A National Cannabis Industry Association’s 7th Annual Cannabis Industry Lobby Days Team Leader
• Greenspoon Marder Supports the 5th Annual Mother’s High Tea Social
• Greenspoon Marder Supports the Cultivation Classic 2017 in Portland
• Greenspoon Marder Hosts Wharton Club of South Florida: Cannabis Industry Update Featuring Gerald Greenspoon and Scott Greiper
• Greenspoon Marder Attorneys Neal Gidvani And Phillip Silvestri To Speak At Medical & Recreational Marijuana Seminar
• Greenspoon Marder Shareholder Rachel Gillette Featured Speaker At Marijuana Big Thinker Talks On The Hill Event
• Greenspoon Marder Supports Palm Beach County Bar Association’s Cannabis Law Summit
• Greenspoon Marder Partner Lance Rogers Featured Speaker At Orange County Bar Association’s Business & Corporate Law Section April Meeting
• Greenspoon Marder Shareholder Amy Margolis Quoted In The New Yorker Magazine
• Greenspoon Marder Attorneys Rachel Gillette And Lance Rogers To Speak At Cannabis Business Summit & Expo
• Greenspoon Marder Partner Lance Rogers Featured Speaker At Orange County Bar Association’s Labor & Employment Section April Meeting
• Greenspoon Marder Partner Lance Rogers Named To Daily Journal’s Top 40 Under 40
• Greenspoon Marder Hosts Commercial Real Estate Women’s Luncheon
• Greenspoon Marder Celebrates the Opening of its New Office in Denver with a Reception and Workshop on IP in the Cannabis Industry
• Greenspoon Marder Shareholder Rachel Gillette Highlighted In Breaking The Grass Ceiling: Women, Weed and Business
• Greenspoon Marder Attorney Alicia Lewis A Featured Speaker On Legal News And Review
• Greenspoon Marder Shareholder Lance Rogers To Co-Lead The National Cannabis Bar Association’s Corporate Compliance In Cannabis Roundtable
• Greenspoon Marder Supports The South Florida Banking Institute “Marijuana, The Law & Banking” Program
• Greenspoon Marder Supports The Institutional Capital & Cannabis Conference (IC³)
• Greenspoon Marder Cannabis Practice Group Monitoring Department of Justice Potential Action Regarding Recreational Cannabis
• Greenspoon Marder Shareholder Amy Margolis Speaking At Oregon Women Lawyers’ Queen’s Bench Luncheon
• Greenspoon Marder Shareholder Amy Margolis Keynote Speaker At 3rd Annual Cannabis Collaborative Conference
• Greenspoon Marder and The National Law Journal To Host Cannabis Legalization Webcast
• Greenspoon Marder Shareholder Rachel Gillette to be a Featured Speaker at the 2017 Women Grow Leadership Summit
• Greenspoon Marder Shareholder Rachel Gillette to Speak at CLE Cannabis Symposium
• Greenspoon Marder Shareholder Rachel Gillette Recognized in 5280’s “Top Lawyer” 2017 Listing
• Greenspoon Marder Shareholder Jodi Laurence to be a Featured Speaker at the Cannaholdings Medical Marijuana Educational Symposium
• Greenspoon Marder Attorneys to be Featured Speakers at the Democrat Young Professionals Luncheon
• Greenspoon Marder Supports the High Times Business Summit 2017
• Greenspoon Marder Announces Further Expansion with Opening of Portland Office
• Greenspoon Marder Shareholder Rachel Gillette Selected by the NORML Legal Committee for the Distinguished Counsel’s Circle
• Greenspoon Marder Shareholder Rachel Gillette Nominated For 2016 Cannabis Business Awards
• Greenspoon Marder Supports the 4th Annual Mother’s High Tea Social
• Greenspoon Marder Hosts the United For Care Final 2016 Policy Conference
• Greenspoon Marder Sponsors the Cannabis World Congress & Business Expo in Los Angeles
• Greenspoon Marder Shareholder Rachel Gillette to Participate in Live Twitter Chat Hosted by Marijuana Business Daily
• Greenspoon Marder Attorneys Join the Editorial Board of The Cannabis Law Journal
• Three Greenspoon Marder Attorneys Join the Editorial Board of The Cannabis Law Journal

Videos

• C-LAB Conference – Gerry Greenspoon Keynote Address
• Greenspoon Marder Attends MJBizCon 2018
• Greenspoon Marder Attends MJBizCon 2018 – Part 2
• Greenspoon Marder Cannabis Law
• Greenspoon Marder Client Dinner at Twist
• Greenspoon Marder Hosts the Cannabis Private Investment Summit Florida
• Meet the Lawyers – Kelly Hayes (Cannabis)
• Meet the Lawyers: Justin McNaughton (Cannabis)

• Further Discussion – USDA Hemp Webinar
• USDA Hemp Webinar Summary
• Florida Legislature Repeals Ban on Smoking Medical Marijuana
• New Mexico Takes One Step Closer To Recreational Cannabis
• States Move Forward with Hemp Production Plans; Upcoming Farm Bill Webinar
• Weekly Inside U.S. Hemp, Issue #3
• California Takes Steps to Dismiss over 8,000 Cannabis Convictions
• Why Companies Should Consider a Ban on Pre- and Post-Employment Marijuana Drug Testing
• Weekly Inside U.S. Hemp, Issue #2
• Weekly Inside U.S. Hemp, Issue #1
• Investing in Cannabis is Not a Sin
• Florida’s New Governor, Ron DeSantis, Announced His Position to Expand Florida’s Medical Marijuana Program
• Another Victim of the Federal Government Shutdown: Progress for Hemp
• Cannabis REITs – What You Need to Know
• Greenspoon Marder Client Alert: Attorney General Jeff Sessions Resigns – Trump Announces Sessions’ Temporary Replacement
• Greenspoon Marder Client Alert: Proposed Modifications to California’s Permanent State Regulations
• Alcohol Beverage Producers See Potential in Cannabis and Cannabis Derived Products
• LLCs V. Corporations: What’s The Difference For Smaller Farmers?
• Greenspoon Marder Partner Heather Burke to Lead a Panel of Industry Experts on Cannabis Appellations 9/25 at 5:30 p.m. in Long Beach
• Greenspoon Marder Client Alert: First Federal Sentencing of Legal Marijuana Business Owner For Tax Crimes
• “Corona Owner’s Investment A Turning Point For Cannabis” By: Stephen A. Lenn
• Greenspoon Marder Client Alert: Constellation Brands’ $3.8 Billion Investment Promises Growth & Consolidation for the Cannabis Industry
• Greenspoon Marder Client Alert: Hemp-Derived CBD Prohibited in Food Products in California
• Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission Announces June 15th Deadline For License Applications
• Temporary Local Permits Update
• Nevada County, 2018 Growing Season: Temporary Local Permits and Water Board Enrollment
• Florida’s Restrictive Medical Marijuana Regulations — The Basics
• Attempting To Patent Cannabis-Related Inventions May Be Challenging
• How the End of the Hands-Off Federal Policy Will Affect Dispensaries
• Advertising Restrictions for Dispensaries
• Using Trade Secret Protection To Shield Your Marijuana-Related Intellectual Property
• Our Comments to the State Agencies: Ownership, Priority and Terpenes
• FDA Crackdown on Medical Claims Made by CBD Companies
• Nevada Supreme Court Halts Distribution Licenses for Non-Alcohol Distributors
• Where to Smoke: State Legislature Paves the Way for Consumption Lounges in Nevada
• Rohrabacher-Blumenauer Amendment Blocked By The House
• Counties and Municipalities are Grappling with How to Regulate Dispensaries under Florida’s New Medical Marijuana Law
• Social Use Consumption: Still Waiting
• Update: Nevada Department of Taxation Votes Unanimously To Move the Industry’s Distribution Process Forward
• New Jersey Adult-Use: With Christie Headed Out, Murphy Could Spark Change
• Land Use Regulation of Cannabis Ag: Over-regulation, Moratoriums, and Outright Bans When Compromise Should Be the Answer
• Nevada Adult-Use Goes Live: Fear and Loathing in Cannabis Distribution
• The Oregon Cannabis Association Along With Sponsor Greenspoon Marder Descends on Capitol Hill: Outlook Hazy
• Jeff Sessions Asks Congress to Undo Rohrabacher-Farr; What Does This Mean?