Biography
Hannah Stitt is the founder of Tectonic Law (based in San Francisco, California). She provides services to entrepreneurs and businesses in the following areas: Health & Wellness (including the cannabis industry), Internet and Information Technology (including cryptocurrency and blockchain industries), Creative Arts & Media (including publishing and digital art), and Environmental Sustainability. Ms. Stitt focuses her practice on litigation and disputes involving brands, trademarks, copyrights, privacy rights and related business claims. Her clients are both domestic and international, and of all sizes from startup to conglomerate.
Ms. Stitt joined the legal community servicing the California cannabis industry in 2012 while in law school. As the cannabis industry grew and evolved, her law practice transitioned from deal-making and compliance advice into litigation over intellectual property rights, intangible assets and associated business claims. She has educated attorneys throughout the country about cannabis industry practice issues since 2018.
Ms. Stitt graduated with Honors from the University of California Davis in 2010, earning degrees in both Religious Studies and Film Studies. She went on to earn her J.D. from the University of California College of the Law, San Francisco in 2015, receiving a certificate of concentration in the area of intellectual property law.
A core value of both Ms. Stitt’s is providing services to folks impacted by the drug war and “left behind” by current medical and recreational markets opening up across the country. Between October 2016 and December 2021, Ms. Stitt was a volunteer member of the Prisoner Advocacy Network (a project of the San Francisco Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild) (PAN). While with PAN, Ms. Stitt assisted California prisoners to navigate the intricacies of the civil administrative legal system in order to meet their basic needs and defend their human rights. This work exposed her to the system-imposed inequities experienced day-in and day-out by the US’ most vulnerable population. She brings her pro bono experiences holding the government to account into her day-to-day practice for private clients.
Ms. Stitt was an active member of the Ethics Committee for the International Cannabis Bar Association (INCBA) between January 2018 and December 2022. She contributed significantly to the Ethics Committee’s proposed updated model rules of professional conduct for attorneys serving clients in regulated cannabis markets (and the psychedelic and cryptocurrency industries). These days, you can often find her participating in the cannabis interest group for the Intellectual Property Law section of the California Lawyers Association.