Lisa Pittman, Esq.

About The Lecturer

Lisa L. Pittman founded Pittman Legal in April 2022 in Austin, Texas, after seven years’ experience in the cannabis industry in Texas, Colorado, and other states. Ms. Pittman applies her 25 year background litigating commercial disputes in numerous subject matters to aggressively negotiate contracts for her clients and to set them up to avoid future litigation. Ms. Pittman focuses her practice on investors, farmers, manufacturers, distributors, retailers, and others supporting the emerging cannabis and psychedelics industries, and she also handles governmental relations. She is a Non-Resident Fellow at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy, Drug Policy Program, a member of the Texas Department of Agriculture Industrial Hemp Advisory Council, Chair of the American Bar Association’s Cannabis Law & Policy Committee, and an Executive Board Member of the Texas Hemp Coalition. For her efforts, Ms. Pittman is known as “The First Lady of Texas Cannabis Law.”

In 2020, Ms. Pittman filed an Amicus Curiae brief against the DEA in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in support of Dr. Sue Sisley’s efforts to research the therapeutic benefits of cannabis for veterans with PTSD. In 2020, Ms. Pittman was also awarded the National Law Journal Trailblazer Award for Cannabis Law, the Texas Lawyer Trailblazer Award, and was selected by Cannabis Law Report as a Top 200 Global Cannabis Attorney. Ms. Pittman has graduated from three Leadership Academies: 2017 Leadership Austin, 2016 Austin Bar Association, and 2015 American Bar Association. A leader on the legality of plant based medicines, Ms. Pittman often lectures and publishes regularly on these issues across the country and in Latin America. Ms. Pittman has been quoted in media including the New York Times, Forbes, Washington Post, Dallas Morning News and more.