When VS was founded in 2010, it was just a handful of employees working out of a tiny office suite in Denver. Today, the firm has more than 75 employees, including about three dozen attorneys, working out of offices in Denver, Boston, Los Angeles, New York, New Jersey, Austin, and Jacksonville. We also maintain strategic relationships with a number of leading firms around the U.S. and across the globe that specialize in areas of the law that are critical to cannabis clients. VS offers a full su...

When VS was founded in 2010, it was just a handful of employees working out of a tiny office suite in Denver. Today, the firm has more than 75 employees, including about three dozen attorneys, working out of offices in Denver, Boston, Los Angeles, New York, New Jersey, Austin, and Jacksonville. We also maintain strategic relationships with a number of leading firms around the U.S. and across the globe that specialize in areas of the law that are critical to cannabis clients. VS offers a full suite of services — legal, corporate, regulatory, policy and research — for all types of plant-touching marijuana and hemp businesses (cultivators, retailers, extractors, product manufacturers, distributors, and testing labs), ancillary businesses, investors, trade associations, and governmental bodies. Top Ranked Chambers USA 2020 Our firm and many of our individual team members are widely recognized as leaders in cannabis law and policy. VS is ranked a Band 1 law firm by Chambers and Partners USA in its "Nationwide: Cannabis Law" practice category, and five of the firm's partners are individually ranked. Five VS partners were included in the National Law Journal's annual list of "Cannabis Law Trailblazers" in the first two years it was published, and Business Insider named VS one of "the top 7 law firms in cannabis, according to investors, startups and major companies in the booming industry." We were also included in the 2020 list of "Top Cannabis Law Firms" compiled by Green Market Report and Cannabis Law Report. VS is a trusted source of information and analysis, and the firm and its team members appear frequently in the media. We have been featured or quoted by dozens of major news organizations, including USA Today, the Associated Press, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Denver Post, the Boston Globe, Rolling Stone, Forbes, Politico, Law.com, Law360, CNN, MSNBC, Fox News Channel, Fox Business Channel, the BBC and the CBC.