The relatively sudden legalization of commercial cannabis has led attorneys to take on multiple roles for clients: brokers, business consultants, legal counselors, and more. Learn to identify ethical pitfalls in taking multiple jobs for a client - and when you must decline.
Designed to counter drug trafficking, money laundering, and other financial crimes, the Corporate Transparency Act poses particular challenges for the cannabis industry, such as fully disclosing beneficial owners in an industry still prohibited under federal law.
Global Cannabis Intellectual Property Symposium 2023 session: Ethics: Balancing Activism and Zealous Advocacy with the Boundaries of the Profession and Evolving Law
As the cannabis industry grows and more states allow cannabis licensing, the ethical duties that cannabis attorneys must balance have grown more complicated. These ethical duties require lawyers to balance and re-evaluate their duty to zealously advocate for their clients with the duty of candor, their duties to all of their cannabis clients – and, at times, their belief systems and why they entered cannabis law originally. Join our expert panel to discuss these duties and how they try to balance them in their cannabis practices and emerge with a renewed sense of how to identify issues that may challenge competing duties as attorneys and ways to resolve these conflicts.
After becoming a cannabis lawyer, you need to ensure you are an ethical one. Learn from our panelists about the issues they confronted as soon as they entered cannabis practice, and what they never expected.
Most lawyers dream of having many clients seeking their services no matter how problematic. Our panelists debate how to manage conflicts of interest during competitive licensing and applications.
This panel of experienced practitioners will provide insight and guidance in spotting and trouble shooting the issues at the early stages of the evaluation and negotiation of cannabis business transactions.