Vicente Sederberg LLP Founding Partner Brian Vicente Named 2022 Cannabis MVP of the Year by Law360
Sep 22, 2022
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Congratulations Brian!
Vicente Sederberg LLP is proud to announce founding partner Brian Vicente was chosen as one of Law360’s 2022 Cannabis MVPs.
The attorneys chosen as Law360's 2022 MVPs have distinguished themselves from their peers by securing hard-earned successes in high-stakes litigation, complex global matters and record-breaking deals.
Competition for the MVP distinction was fierce this year, with editors reviewing more than 900 submissions to determine the winners. The 2022 class of MVP’s consists of 188 attorneys from 78 firms and 38 practice areas.
Read about Brian's proudest accomplishment of the past year, why he's a cannabis lawyer, how cannabis law has evolved, and his advice to young attorneys in this Law360 article.
Brian Vicente has been helping marijuana businesses obtain state and local licenses since the inception of the regulated cannabis industry — an industry he has played a significant role in shaping. He has also advised national, state, and local government officials in the development of regulated cannabis markets across the country and around the world, including in Uruguay, the first country in the world to legalize and regulate marijuana for adult use.
Brian currently serves as president of the National Hispanic Cannabis Council, a purpose-driven nonprofit organization he helped found in 2021. In 2010, Brian was elected as the first board chair of the National Cannabis Industry Association, which now represents nearly 2,000 member businesses and tens of thousands of cannabis professionals.
Since 2020, Chambers and Partners USA has ranked Brian as one of the top cannabis attorneys in the nation. Additionally, he was recognized by Best Lawyers© from 2021-2023, named a "Cannabis Law Trailblazer" by the National Law Journal in 2018, and has been included in 5280 magazine's list of "Denver's Top Lawyers" every year since 2015. He was also named one of High Times' "Top 100 Influential People in Cannabis" in 2022.
Brian has conducted more than 1,000 interviews regarding marijuana policy for national, state, and local media outlets, and he was recognized by The Guardian as "the (cannabis) industry's de facto spokesman."