{"id":5316,"date":"2020-07-15T09:29:56","date_gmt":"2020-07-15T13:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/199.250.223.35\/~craftbrewery\/?p=5316"},"modified":"2020-06-27T16:09:54","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T20:09:54","slug":"craft-brewery-legal-resources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craftbreweryfinance.com\/oldversion\/craft-brewery-legal-resources\/","title":{"rendered":"Craft Brewery Legal Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The beer business is a highly regulated industry, with lots of rules to follow.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In addition to federal and state licensing requirements, breweries need to deal with a myriad of legal issues: distribution contracts, trademarks and intellectual property, and personnel matters, to name a few.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Having a good beer lawyer on your side can make a big difference.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In this post, you&#8217;ll find contact information for lawyers that can help. These folks know the law and they know the beer business.<\/p>\n<p><strong>John Moran and Jim Keenan, Bernstein Shur\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jim Keenan is an intellectual property guru who helps breweries protect their most valuable business assets: their brands. John Moran specializes in federal and state licensing and compliance and is the author of an essential resource for breweries: <a href=\"https:\/\/craftbreweryfinance.com\/oldversion\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/The-Brew-Kit-MA-.pdf\">The Brew Kit<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Bio, contact info and details for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bernsteinshur.com\/who\/attorney-directory\/james-keenan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jim Keenan<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bernsteinshur.com\/who\/attorney-directory\/john-j-moran\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">John Moran<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Trevor Brewer, BrewerLong\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Trevor&#8217;s areas of practice: alcohol beverage regulation, beverage licensing, and distribution agreements.<\/p>\n<p>Bio, contact info and details for <a href=\"https:\/\/brewerlong.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a0Trevor Brewer<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>John Szymankiewicz, Beer Law Center<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>John has written the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Beer-Law-What-Brewers-Need\/dp\/1542730880\/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&amp;keywords=beer+law&amp;qid=1593128170&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">book on beer law<\/a>\u00a0which is a helpful resource for brewery owners. He covers topics ranging from federal licensing to labeling to buying and selling your business.<\/p>\n<p>Bio, contact info and details for <a href=\"https:\/\/beerlawcenter.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John S.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Wrap Up + Action Items<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t walk the brewery legal path alone. Find an expert to guide you along the way. Your intellectual property, distribution contracts and brewery licensing will be better for it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The beer business is a highly regulated industry, with lots of rules to follow.\u00a0 In addition to federal and state licensing requirements, breweries need to deal with a myriad of legal issues: distribution contracts, trademarks and intellectual property, and personnel matters, to name a few. Having a good beer lawyer on your side can make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5317,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_meta":"","_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-operations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craftbreweryfinance.com\/oldversion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5316"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craftbreweryfinance.com\/oldversion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craftbreweryfinance.com\/oldversion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craftbreweryfinance.com\/oldversion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craftbreweryfinance.com\/oldversion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/craftbreweryfinance.com\/oldversion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craftbreweryfinance.com\/oldversion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craftbreweryfinance.com\/oldversion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craftbreweryfinance.com\/oldversion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craftbreweryfinance.com\/oldversion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}