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I believe in the law. I always have. It\u2019s the foundation you build a company on; it\u2019s the foundation our country was built on \u2014 it\u2019s supposed to be the thing that protects you when you play by the rules. I\u2019ve learned a lot about the law by building companies, and I believe that nothing is standard as long as you have legal documents to back it up. But somewhere along the way, using the law became a luxury product.<\/p>\n

The first time I needed legal representation, I had to sue someone over owed commissions. My lawyer said to me, \u201cCongratulations, you are an adult now,\u201d because when you need legal representation, it doesn\u2019t matter if you did nothing wrong. It doesn\u2019t matter if you\u2019re going to win. You still have to pay \u2014 often hundreds of thousands of dollars \u2014 just to get to the moment where you\u2019re proven right. A disgruntled employee. A union fight. A lawsuit that\u2019s obviously frivolous. Doesn\u2019t matter. You need representation, because the alternative is worse. And real representation, from lawyers who actually know how to fight, costs a fortune.<\/p>\n

We were recently in an eight-year lawsuit, one in which, from the start, we were happy to pay the amount we believed was owed to the company on the other side. When the suit finally came to a close, the amount we were required to pay was exactly what we had suggested in the first place. The biggest losers were both us and the people who sued us because nothing changed except the amount we all paid for representation.<\/p>\n

What are the options? Pay the amount you are sued for. Go out of business. Or find a nonprofit lawyer doing the work out of the goodness of their heart because they can\u2019t charge what it\u2019s actually worth. That\u2019s not a functioning system. That\u2019s a system that filters out anyone without deep pockets \u2014 regardless of who\u2019s right. <\/p>\n

Gotham<\/a>, our business is in cannabis, one of the most regulated, most litigated industries there is. If anyone else in this industry had spent what we\u2019ve spent on lawyers just to stay in business while doing the right thing, they\u2019d be gone. And we\u2019ve done nothing wrong. That\u2019s the part that gets me. I can\u2019t write this without pointing at the obvious. We just watched a president spend his entire life treating the legal system as a delay tactic \u2014 burying people in motions not to win on the merits, but to outlast them financially. That\u2019s not justice; that\u2019s leverage. If the law can be weaponized that well by someone with unlimited resources, what chance does an honest small business have against even a modest frivolous claim?<\/p>\n

To be clear \u2014 I\u2019m not anti-lawyer. I get what goes into it: years of training, memorizing, and learning how to read and apply the law, which continues to evolve through rulings. That expertise has real value. But there\u2019s a difference between paying for expertise and paying a toll just to stay in business while doing nothing wrong. Right now, small businesses are paying that toll constantly. And the only guaranteed winner, years later, is the lawyers on both sides.<\/p>\n

How do we fix this? I don\u2019t have the answer. I hope that AI will help, as writing a motion will more than likely be done better and more quickly by technology. Regardless, something is seriously wrong with a system where being right isn\u2019t enough \u2014 where you either pay, fold, or get lucky enough to find someone willing to help you for less than they\u2019re worth. If we actually want small businesses and people without deep pockets to do the right thing and survive doing so, this has to be part of the conversation.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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