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Speakers

Sheila M. Mints, chair of Capehart Scatchard's cannabis law practice, spoke at the New Jersey Cannabis Insider Live: The Road to Legalization conference.

The conference, co-sponsored by Capehart Scatchard, was held at the New Jersey Convention and Exposition Center in Edison, New Jersey.

Mints participated in a panel discussion titled "Medical Cannabis—The Next Frontier."

The panel discussed the state of medical marijuana in the state of New Jersey as well as cannabis research and the forces shaping it.

Mints counsels businesses, public entities and entrepreneurs interested in entering the cannabis market.

Additionally, Mints chairs the health care law practice where she specializes in health care transactional matters, including shareholder and employment agreements, purchases and sales of medical practices, including ACO transactions, and practice mergers.

Elected and Appointed

Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young announced Caroline C. Gorman was appointed vice chair of the business department and Marissa Parker was appointed vice chair of the litigation department.

Gorman, who serves as vice chair of the financial services practice group, focuses her practice on public finance and all aspects of secured and unsecured financing, including construction and real estate loans, acquisition financing, health care financing and asset-based financing.

She regularly represents clients as bond counsel and underwriter's counsel related to tax-exempt financing for 501(c)(3) entities, governmental units and other entities.

She also represents clients with respect to general business and real estate matters.

Parker, who serves as chair of Stradley Ronon's hiring committee, represents corporate, mutual fund, institutional and nonprofit clients as both plaintiffs and defendants in complex commercial litigation matters, with a focus on securities, investment management, ERISA and health care.

Increasingly, she prosecutes U.S. securities fraud opt-out actions on behalf of mutual funds and institutional investors, and advises funds and investment advisers about opportunities and risks in both domestic and foreign direct securities fraud cases.

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Greenberg Traurig elevated environmental attorney Kaitlyn R. Maxwell, labor and employment attorney Christiana L. Signs, real estate attorney Michael A. Suleta and intellectual property litigator Jonathan Wise to shareholder in the firm's Philadelphia office.

Maxwell joined Greenberg Traurig in 2014 and focuses her practice on complex environmental litigation and regulatory compliance counseling, with an emphasis on major contamination cases under hazardous waste and Superfund laws.

Signs joined the firm in 2013 and focuses her practice on complex employment matters, with an emphasis on class and collective wage and hour, discrimination and Fair Credit Reporting Act litigation.

Suleta came to Greenberg Traurig in 2011, after starting his career as a financial management consultant at a Big Four accounting firm.

In his practice, he represents developers, institutional investors and lenders in the acquisition, disposition, financing, leasing and management of multifamily, industrial, retail, hotel, health care and office properties.

Wise came to the firm in 2018, after serving as associate general counsel of IP litigation for a major pharmaceutical company.

He centers his practice on advising and executing patent litigation strategy, with a focus on the generics pharmaceutical marketplace.

Firmwide, Greenberg Traurig announced the elevation of 44 attorneys to shareholder and 34 to of counsel/counsel, together practicing in more than two dozen areas of legal practice.

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