Bloomberg Law
June 4, 2019, 6:36 PM UTCUpdated: June 4, 2019, 9:25 PM UTC

Sheppard Mullin Latest Big Law Firm to Launch Cannabis Practice (1)

Roy Strom
Roy Strom
Reporter

Sheppard Mullin is the latest Big Law firm to start a cannabis industry practice as the nation’s largest law firms embrace a once-illicit market now partly legal in more than two-thirds of U.S. states.

The California-founded firm said on Tuesday it would launch a team of 70 attorneys from 12 offices focused on the cannabis industry, which one of the firm’s partners said will account for $12 billion in global spending in 2018.

Illinois last week became the 11th state to decriminalize marijuana and the first to make the sale of recreational marijuana legal via the state legislature, according to ...

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