Why Attorneys Retain Ted Menadier

  • Experience across hemp and marijuana matters

  • Combines cultivation expertise with economic damages analysis

  • Experienced with both civil and criminal matters

  • Clear, defensible opinions supported by industry data

  • Available for consulting, reports, deposition, and trial testimony

Industry Experience

Experience in both hemp and marijuana operations, including cultivation, nursery operations, crop valuation, compliance, and business management.

Litigation-Focused Analysis

Provides objective opinions supported by records, industry data, testing results, and accepted methodologies.

Technical and Financial Expertise

Combines cultivation knowledge with valuation, economic damages, business interruption, yield analysis, and market evaluation.

Clear Communication

Explains complex cannabis issues in a manner that can be understood by attorneys, judges, juries, insurers, and regulators.

Representative Expert Witness Engagements

Crop Loss & Cultivation Operations

  • Crop loss valuation and yield estimation

  • Herbicide overspray damage

  • Loss of heat and environmental control failures

  • Indoor cultivation fires

  • Wildfire ash contamination

  • Power outages

  • Cannabis nursery operations

  • Cultivation facility inspections

Testing & Compliance

  • Certificate of Analysis (COA) interpretation

  • Cannabis and hemp testing methodologies

  • Hemp compliance matters

  • Track-and-trace data analysis

Business & Economic Damages

  • Business interruption losses

  • Lost revenue and economic damages

  • Revenue projections

  • Cannabis market analysis

Genetics & Intellectual Property

  • Cannabis strain identification

  • Genetic lineage analysis

  • Strain yield comparisons

  • Trade secret disputes involving cloning and propagation

Criminal & Civil Litigation

  • Hemp versus marijuana identification

  • Crop valuation

  • Yield estimates of alleged illicit cultivation operations

  • Cannabis odor-related matters

  • Evaluation of industry practices

  • Wrongful death litigation involving cannabis industry operations

Services Provided

  • Case review and consultation

  • Expert reports

  • Deposition testimony

  • Trial testimony

Available nationwide for matters involving cannabis and hemp cultivation, crop loss, valuation, business interruption, testing, compliance, and economic damages.