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 in the 2026 Super Lawyers® Ohio and Kentucky magazine as a top story 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

Posted by Brennan Manna Diamond

Community Banks: Collaboration, not isolation, is the key to protecting/ enhancing the cannabis business you pioneered

August 26, 2022

As we prepare for the plenary session of the informal institutional cannabis lenders community announced in my previous article, I am pleased to advise that participants now include 5 of the best-known dedicated loan funds; a select group of commercial banks ranging in size from single state community banks to mid-size regionals making cannabis loans into the mid-8 figures; and, a syndicator of credit union cannabis loans.

Posted by Stephen Lenn

Non-compete Agreements are Under Fire: What Employers Need to Know

August 4, 2022

Non-compete agreements are an ongoing topic of dispute. Employers and their advocates point to the efficacy of non-competes in protecting proprietary information. Employees and their advocates argue about worker mobility and that employers unduly burden workers’ ability to seek better jobs. The Biden administration has put forth its position, and state legislatures have introduced bills addressing the enforceability of non-competes. Here is what you need to know:

Posted by Member Joshua R. La Bouef and Associate Andrew Freibert

Explosive Growth in Pot of Gold Opportunity for Bank (and Other) Cannabis Lenders Driving Erosion of the Barriers

May 13, 2022

Our original article on bank lending to the cannabis industry anticipated that the convergence of interest between banks and the cannabis industry would draw more and larger banks to the industry. Banks were awash in liquidity with limited deployment options, while bankable cannabis businesses had rapidly growing needs for more and lower cost credit. Since then, the pot of gold opportunity for banks to lend into the cannabis industry has grown exponentially due to a combination of market constraints on equity causing a dramatic shift to debt and the ever-increasing capital needs of one of the country’s fastest growing industries. At the same time, hurdles to entry of new banks are being systematically cleared as the yellow brick road to the cannabis industry’s access to the financial markets is being paved, brick by brick, by the progressively increasing number and size of banks that are now entering the market.

Posted by Stephen Lenn

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