By Janet Jackim, Partner, Cannabis Practice Chair In just the first six months of Arizona’s adult-use marijuana program, which commenced in January 2021, the state received combined medical and adult-use tax revenue totaling nearly $75 million. With combined sales in March 2021 reaching $120 million, according to the Arizona Department of Revenue, $1 billion in…
By Jonathan M. Purow, Counsel At its meeting on November 10, 2021, the New Jersey Cannabis Regulatory Commission announced that it will start accepting applications for cultivation, manufacturing, and testing lab licenses on December 15, 2021, and applications for retail licenses on March 15, 2022. The applications will be accepted and approved on a rolling…
Zuber Lawler represented Ken Real Estate, a major Japanese real estate firm and a longstanding firm client, in sale of its Lake Tahoe Resort Hotel, a 400-room hotel in South Lake Tahoe, California, to Brookfield Properties, a very large U.S.-based real estate firm. The Lake Tahoe Resort Hotel is the largest hotel in the Lake…
As the financial markets change, today’s investors need concise, constructive, and insightful subject matter experts to provide bite-sized pieces of in-depth knowledge in an easy-to-read format. Clear Rating, its affiliates, Josh Lawler, and co-authors ranging from leading financers, attorneys, regulators, and analyst came together for one simple purpose, provide “The Digital Asset Handbook” to help…
Zuber Lawler is proud to announce that it has been ranked #1 in Law360’s recent law firm diversity survey 2021 Diversity Snapshot, and boasts greater diversity in its equity ranks than all other law firms participating in the survey. The survey shows that the U.S. legal industry as a whole continues to struggle with a…
Zuber Lawler assisted Houston-based investment bank and crypto expert Entoro Capital, which has partnered with private equity firm Valhil Capital to create an NFT that has been sold as a security. Valhil Capital underwrote the sale and Entoro Capital acted as a broker-dealer. Entoro raffled off nine of the ten minted NFTs based on a…
By: Jennifer C. Kuhn, Partner The Federal Circuit issued a mandamus order transferring Brazos Licensing’s patent litigations against Juniper Network from the Western District of Texas, Waco Division (Albight J.) to the Northern District of California for convenience under 28 U.S.C. section 1404(a): http://www.cafc.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/opinions-orders/21-160.ORDER.9-24-2021_1839676.pdf Witness Convenience is paramount, even if testimony time is limited: The…
On October 26, 2020, the Hon. Joseph R. Brisco (Ret.) awarded Zuber Lawler clients over $65 million after an arbitration over the breach of a cannabis licensing and distribution contract, as well as related business torts. The specifics of the underlying deal concerned a license and distribution arrangement for The Weekend Box, an immensely popular…
By Robert A. Mandel, Partner & Head of Appellate Practice Group Those of us fortunate enough to litigate cases in the appellate courts are often asked if and when trial counsel should turn to us for assistance. We get those questions all the time—particularly from our clients’ in-house counsel and trial attorneys. And it should…
Two Zuber Lawler partners made major contributions to the American Bar Association’s long-awaited publication of “Building the Rule of Law: Firsthand Accounts From a Thirty-Year Global Campaign”, a comprehensive account of the ABA’s global rule of law programs. These programs were first initiated by the ABA’s Central and Eastern Europe Law Initiative, launched when the Berlin Wall fell…