Corporate & Transactional
Getting Acquisition Ready
Even if your company is not preparing for an acquisition, the company should always be acquisition ready. What that essentially means is: (1) the company
About Us
Big Law Services. Boutique Attention.
OUR MISSION & VISION
Pursuing good through expert lawyering.
Through the skilled representation of each client, we aspire to create a legal landscape in which the cannabis and hemp industries are normalized in a just and sustainable manner.
OUR HISTORY
WE'VE BEEN THERE , HELPING PAVE THE WAY.
Rogoway Law was founded in 2011, five years before the passage of The Adult Use of Marijuana Act (Proposition 64) in California. We started as advocates for patients and caregivers, helping cannabis collectives and cooperatives successfully fight unjust enforcement charges in a perilous legal landscape. Meanwhile, we also fought for regulatory reform and state-wide legalization.
Now, Rogoway Law represents some of the most significant companies in the cannabis and hemp industries, while continuing our pro bono advocacy efforts for local reform reform in California and nationwide legalization.
In a seminal case back in 2011, after months of legal wrangling, we helped Ryan English, a 29-year-old brain tumor survivor who had been charged with three felonies including possession for sale, regain his property – 81 plants and two pounds of processed pot – from the Sheriff's Office in Santa Rosa.
THE TEAM
SKILLED REPRESENTATION FROM SUBJECT MATTER EXPERTS.
Our team of accomplished cannabis, hemp, and ancillary industry lawyers is here to meet your legal needs. With previous experience in “Big Law”, mid-size firms, boutique firms, international firms; as in-house general counsel; and in the public and private sectors, our attorneys bring their diverse skill sets and perspectives to work for our clients.
Perhaps most known for our administrative law and cannabis regulatory compliance expertise, the attorneys at Rogoway are also incredible corporate transactional attorneys, labor and employment lawyers, intellectual property practitioners and litigators.
You can visit our team page to learn more about the legal professionals who will be working on your matter.
PRO BONO & COMMUNITY WORK
DOING OUR PART FOR A BETTER TOMORROW.
At Rogoway Law, all our attorneys meet our commitment to public and community service by participating in a robust pro bono program.
We are devoted to serving the common good through working with trade associations and local governments to implement sensible cannabis policies, providing meaningful educational opportunities, improving flawed social equity programs, advocacy for drug policy reform, and ensuring safe access to medicine. These efforts go back to the firm’s founding and are integral to our fabric.
Jana Adams with her daughter Brooke. In a landmark ruling, we were able to help Brooke–a kindergartner diagnosed with Dravet Syndrome, a rare and severe form of epilepsy–secure access to life-saving cannabis-based rescue medication while on school grounds.
PRESS
matters that have influenced the industry.
Rogoway Law has represented several high profile clients in newsworthy matters. Our attorneys don’t shy away from hard cases without noted precedent. Fighting the good fight and helping execute significant deals, has helped us receive much acclaim from local, national, and international news outlets.
To learn more about the influential matters we’ve been involved with, please take a look at our Press page.
Recent Cannabis and hemp Law Perspectives
Local Ordinances
Mendocino County’s Cannabis Cultivation Ordinance On Hold Due to a Voter Referendum
The County of Mendocino recently adopted a comprehensive cannabis “expansion” ordinance that made sweeping changes to, among other things, the County’s commercial cannabis cultivation regulations.
Corporate & Transactional
Employees, Officers and Directors, Oh My!
The Importance of Selecting Proper Governance for Your Business Venture.
Putting together the best team for your business is anything but simple. Starting day one you want to find the right partners, if any, to
Rogoway Law Group is a professional corporation; as such, it does not have partners, it has members who are the equivalent of shareholders. Because of the prevalence in the industry to refer to members and senior attorneys as partners, we use that term and have referred to them as such throughout this website.