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BMD Member Duriya Dhinojwala Featured in 2026 Super Lawyers® Ohio and Kentucky Magazine

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December 29, 2025

We are proud to share that BMD Member Duriya Dhinojwala is featured on the cover of the 2026 Super Lawyers® Ohio and Kentucky magazine and highlighted in a corresponding article titled Her Story Is Theirs.

The article traces Duriya's journey from immigrating to the United States from India as a young woman to building a successful legal career focused on immigration and bankruptcy law. Drawing on her own lived experience navigating the U.S. immigration system, Duriya has dedicated her practice to helping other immigrants understand their options and move forward with confidence.

 

The feature highlights her path to law school, her early career, and her role in growing BMD's immigration practice. It also recognizes her deep commitment to pro bono service and community engagement, including her work with Community Legal Aid and the establishment of a neighborhood legal clinic to assist underserved Ohioans.

 

Read the full article in the digital edition of Super Lawyers® Ohio and Kentucky 2026: https://digital.superlawyers.com/v/Ohio-and-Kentucky-2026/?page=10

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Entourage Effect and Shield Compliance Join the ICLC

April 17, 2024In a continuation of its recent growth, only a bit more than a year after its organization, the ICLC is pleased to announce the addition of 3 more new participants. One of these is a commercial bank. In accordance with our commitment to our bank participants, they are not identified outside the Community unless they specifically authorize it. The other 2, Entourage Effect Capital (EEC) and Shield Compliance, are each well known within the cannabis industry and will enhance the ICLC’s potential value to its participants, enriching the spectrum of relevant and accretive cannabis industry experience, skillsets and perspectives available to them.Blog Post

Trulieve Tax Announcement and the ICLC Growth Spurt

March 19, 2024On March 12, leading cannabis tax lawyer James Mann made an extremely timely virtual presentation to ICLC participants regarding the announcement by Trulieve of its receipt of more than $100 million of tax refunds in connection with a challenge to what it owes under Section 280E of the Internal Revenue Code.Blog Post

Another Big Move Out of the Shadows; First Citizens Bank, the nation’s 19th largest, poised to enter the Cannabis Market

February 20, 2024A commentary on cannabis and hemp dated January 12, 2024 posted by First Citizens Bank on its website reflects the decision by the Bank to extend its very substantial hemp/CBD platform into the cannabis space.Blog Post

A Closer Look at Cannabis

December 8, 2023At the Nov. 30 Akron Roundtable event "A Closer Look at Cannabis," moderated by Andrew Meyer, deputy editor of news Ideastream Public Media, a varied group of panelists spoke about expected and potential outcomes and efforts of marijuana legalization.Blog Post

Out of the Shadows - Cannabis Going Mainstream

November 21, 2023BMD Phoenix Office Managing Partner, Stephen Lenn, recently discussed today's cannabis industry at an Akron Roundtable as part of their "Bringing it Home" series.
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