Zuber Lawler Is Passionate About Clients’ Success

California’s regulated cannabis industry presents businesses with a host of challenges, including high taxes, strict regulations, and competition from an entrenched illicit market. Savvy operators know that compliance with the rules is crucial, leading many businesses to seek legal services from attorneys at the law firm Zuber Lawler.

Managing partner Tom Zuber states that the Los Angeles-based law firm has attorneys located nationwide to serve the needs of its clients. He started the firm’s cannabis practice in 2006 after a friend expressed a need for legal representation under California’s medical cannabis laws. Zuber Lawler now serves cannabis clients in legal markets nationwide, offering comprehensive legal services that encompass licensing and compliance, intellectual property rights, litigation, business deal negotiations, international commerce, and more.

Zuber, a graduate of Columbia Law School, says that he has a passion for helping clients in the cannabis space, both as an attorney and as a consumer. And as legalization and the industry have spread, Zuber Lawler’s nationwide roster of clients has grown to include cannabis businesses of all sizes.

“We represent some of the very largest cannabis companies in the world by market cap. And we also represent companies that are sort of just out of the gate and have just received their funding and are aspiring to become larger companies,” Zuber says in a Zoom interview with IgniteIt. “We represent midsize companies that were once very small companies and became quite large companies. So it really runs the gamut, the whole spectrum.”

Challenges of California’s Regulated Cannabis Market

Acknowledging that California has been a trailblazer for cannabis policy reform, Zuber claims the state is now not doing enough to support licensed cannabis businesses. He cites high taxes and a lack of enforcement of the state’s underground cannabis industry, all while companies that are trying to do the right thing are burdened with high costs and stiff regulations.

When asked what he’s learned from his years working with clients in the California cannabis industry, Zuber said his experience has led him to realize how much he loves connecting with people in emerging industries.

“I would say that’s the biggest thing that I learned from cannabis, is how much we love that stuff,” he replies. “We love doing work in emerging industries, not just cannabis, but also blockchain and crypto and longevity and clean tech and quantum computing, which is really nerdy, I know, but we love that sort of stuff.”

For more information about Zuber Lawler, check out the firm’s website.