Founding Partner Michael V. Mancini is a litigator and trial attorney who focuses on shareholder and derivative, cannabis, business, and entertainment disputes. He has represented internationally recognized businesses, notable angel investors, startups, world-famous celebrities, small local businesses, and private individuals.
Michael is a leader in cannabis litigation who handles headline-making cannabis disputes. He regularly leads complex cannabis litigation and serves as an advisory co-counsel to large law firms. He has spoken on multiple expert panels regarding the ethics of representing licensed cannabis companies, emerging trends in cannabis litigation, and the need to thoroughly comprehend state and local licensing before rushing into court. Michael has recovered tens of millions of dollars for cannabis clients and defeated millions of dollars in claims against them.
Michael also has substantial experience in high-stakes business, breach of contract, entertainment, shareholder and derivative, real estate, insurance bad faith, false promise, business divorce, and unfair competition cases. Michael has negotiated dozens of advantageous settlements, secured case-ending pretrial rulings, excluded damaging evidence and expert testimony, fended off abusive evidentiary motions, taken and defended key depositions, and handled private arbitration proceedings and civil jury and bench trials in State and Federal courts.
Best attorney we've EVER worked with. Mike was strategic, efficient, and aggressive - which was exactly what we were looking for. The outcome of our matter was VERY favorable and I would 100% recomm...
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