Whitney Hodges is a partner in the Real Estate, Land Use and Natural Resources Practice Group in the firm’s San Diego office. She is the leader of the firm’s Cannabis Industry Team and serves on the firm’s Pro Bono, Recruiting and Diversity & Inclusion committees, as well as numerous industry specific teams.  Whitney’s practice focuses on the representation of clients involved in real estate development and environmental compliance. Specific to cannabis operators and ancillary service providers, Whitney advises and represents through all phases of the regulatory process, including due diligence investigations, negotiating and drafting transactions agreements, processing land use entitlements, advising on environmental and natural resources law, and appearing before governmental agencies and commissions.

A California lawyer for over 20 years, Shay Aaron Gilmore advises and counsels exclusively cannabis operators and investors throughout the legal supply chain in business transactional, corporate and regulatory matters. Focusing on mergers and acquisitions, financings, corporate governance, and commercial contracts, Shay provides outside general counsel services to some of the most successful operators and investors in the cannabis industry. Shay is a member of the Board of Directors of the International Cannabis Bar Association and the Immediate Past Chair of the Bar Association of San Francisco Cannabis Law Section. Super Lawyers Magazine has rated Shay as a Northern California Super Lawyer in Business and Corporate Law and in Cannabis Law as well. The Los Angeles/San Francisco Daily Journal has named Shay to its list of the Top 20 Cannabis Lawyers in California. Shay serves as a member of the San Francisco Cannabis Oversight Committee, reporting to the Board of Supervisors and the Mayor of the City & County of San Francisco. Shay holds a B.A. in Economics from Rice University, and a J.D. from The University of Texas School of Law.