..."the law firm that worked tirelessly to legalize it."  Cannabis Counsel® got its start in 1999, with Matthew Abel, its founder, who has been working and organizing to legalize cannabis since the early nineties.   

 

My partners Matthew Abel and Ann Cisco, his law school classmate, both retired.

 

We did it to ourselves, and are happy to move on in this new configuration. We worked hard at 2 political goals: to legalize cannabis (this undercut our criminal defense work); and to provide an army of competent lawyers needed to support a brand new multi-billion dollar industry, through our years of helping to train fellow lawyers through our state, national and international professional associations for continuing legal education of which we were on the ground floor (this increased our competition). Of course the movement and our colleagues know we are the OG go-to law firm for cannabis law. lol.

 

Julia Gilbert and Sean Myers followed their hearts and are now doing criminal appeals and defense respectively, each on their own. These departures each lined up with our incremental decrease in legal work.  

 

So all is well. Cannabis Counsel® is going strong as a more efficient operation with just Thomas Lavigne as the single attorney, and Jill Rosati as our extraordinary paralegal, and Matthew Abel, of counsel “retired”.  

 

Thank you for your business. There is still a lot of work to do.