Eric P Berlin

Practice Areas

Eric Berlin leads the US and global Cannabis teams at Dentons, the world’s largest law firm. Widely recognized as one of the nation’s leading authorities on cannabis and hemp law, Eric dedicates 100 percent of his work to clients involved in, or impacted by, the legal cannabis or hemp industries, providing strategic, compliance, corporate, financing, transactional, and litigation counselling. He has worked on some of the industry’s biggest deals and counsels several of the top companies in the cannabis ecosystem. Eric has been responsible for most of the Nasdaq listings for companies involved in the US regulated cannabis industry. Eric’s own involvement in this area goes back more than a decade, when he worked pro bono with legislators and other interested parties to help draft and pass legislation creating medical cannabis programs in Illinois and Ohio.

Professional Memberships

President of the Illinois Cannabis Bar Association; member and immediate past president of the board of directors for the University of Chicago GI Research Foundation

Personal

University of Wisconsin at Madison, 1993, JD, Order of the Coif; Senior Articles Editor, Wisconsin Law Review; Moot Court

Dartmouth College, 1989, BA (government), with high honors