Hiring to Firing in the Michigan Cannabis Industry

Brett Gelbord, attorney at Law Dykema

Brett Gelbord is an accomplished business attorney seated in Dykema’s Labor & Employment Group focused on providing practical and efficient guidance to employers on all manner of workforce-related issues. Brett provides both day-to-day employment counseling and he also represents employers in administrative proceedings and lawsuits at both the state and federal level on issues ranging from claims of employment discrimination and wrongful termination to the enforcement of non-competition agreements and the protection of trade secrets.

Serving as outside employment counsel for several large employers, Brett partners with his clients’ HR teams to seamlessly provide legal advice on all manner of employment-related issues. Brett has represented clients in a variety of industries, with a particular focus on the cannabis, automotive, and technology sectors. His experience in the cannabis sector is multifaceted, leveraging both his employment law experience and his commercial litigation skills to provide clients with well-rounded guidance. In addition to providing employment counsel to clients in the highly-regulated cannabis industry, Brett has secured millions of dollars in judgments on behalf of his clients, and he has successfully defended his clients against multi-million dollar claims. He is also a thought leader in the cannabis space, having authored several articles and spoken on the industry’s trajectory as part of a panel organized by S&P Global, as well as regularly serving as a host of Dykema’s cannabis podcast, A Higher Law. And, as a founding member of the Psychedelic Bar Association, Brett is working with attorneys across the nation to shape policy and legislation in the quickly emerging psychedelics industry.