New York State Marijuana Regulation and Taxation Act: What CPAs Need to Know Webcast

Patrick focuses his practice on business litigation and insurance defense matters. He has extensive experience defending catastrophic construction accident, products liability, car accident, and toxic exposure claims — including environmental mass tort litigation. In addition to his personal injury defense practice, Patrick handles a variety of business tort and contract litigation matters on behalf of financial institutions and other commercial clients, including claims involving breach of noncompete agreements, breach of fiduciary duty, tortious interference with contract, and other business torts. Patrick’s commercial practice also involves defense and prosecution of claims involving intellectual property, including copyright and trademark disputes, trade secret claims, and confidentiality agreements. Patrick is co-leader of the Hodgson Russ Hemp & Medical Cannabis Practice. In that role, he advises clients on a range of issues affecting the cultivation, processing, distribution, and sale of cannabis and hemp products. Patrick provides counsel to businesses seeking licenses to operate within the industry, as well as clients seeking to do business with the cannabis industry, with a focus on regulatory compliance and risk minimization. Disclaimer: Possession, use, distribution, and sale of cannabis and cannabis products is illegal under federal law. No legal advice Hodgson Russ gives is intended to provide any guidance or assistance in violating federal law. Patrick is also a member of the Hodgson Russ Media Law & First Amendment Practice, which counsels clients on matters such as defamation claims, privacy law, right of access to information, and free speech. Before joining Hodgson Russ, Patrick served as a summer law clerk for U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny, and as an intern with the Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia. Honors ● Former notes and submissions editor, Notre Dame Law Review

Chris leads the firm's State & Local Tax (SALT) Practice. His practice spans most tax matters, but focuses primarily on New York State and New York City business taxes, including corporate income tax, unincorporated business tax, flow-through entity income taxation, and sales and use taxes. Chris provides counsel for tax-wise transaction structuring as well as tax controversy representation at every level, from audit representation to representation before New York's Court of Appeals. Chris is a former instructor of tax practice and procedure at the University of Buffalo School of Management. Honors ● Listed, 2012 Upstate New York Super Lawyers Experience $20 Million Sales Tax Refund Claims on Behalf of Hotel Clients 75-Turbine, 112.5 MW Wind Energy Project in Western New York Administrative Law Judge-Level Hearing and Successful Appeal at NY's Tax Appeals Tribunal Gas Import Tax Declared Unconstitutional Nonresident Avoids Tax on Deemed Sales of Assets in New York Planning Nets Tobacco Products Business a Cool Million Tax Assessment Defeated, Client Obtains Attorneys’ Fees from State Professional Affiliations ● Independent SALT Alliance board of directors ● Buffalo Institute on Taxation (past co-chair) ● Bar Association of Erie County Taxation Committee (past chair)