Dean Rocco is a pragmatic, results-oriented attorney who leverages the firm’s geographic reach and strength across multiple disciplines to the benefit of clients. He takes great pride in building longstanding partnerships with clients through responsive communication and consistent, positive results in keeping with clients’ business philosophies and litigation objectives.Dean is the Western Region Chair of the firm’s national Employment & Labor practice. In that capacity, he maintains a significant practice representing employers and management in a wide range of employment litigation including executive compensation, trade secrets and non-compete disputes, discrimination and harassment claims and wage and hour lawsuits. He lends his knowledge and perspective to building effective personnel policies, counseling employers through during difficult employee issues and training management on topics of compliance and best practices.Dean also serves as co-chair of the firm’s national Cannabis Law practice. Dean regularly works with cannabis organizations and ancillary businesses, assisting start-ups with business formation and governance, processing licensing applications, supporting commercial transactions, guiding mergers and acquisitions, structuring fundraising, building sound employment policies and practices, reviewing insurance coverage, and guiding regulatory compliance in the growth, transportation, processing, production or distribution of cannabis-related products. When disputes arise, Dean leverages the firm’s strength across multiple disciplines to effectively litigate commercial, products liability, professional liability, intellectual property and employment law claims. For employers of all types, Dean provides guidance on legalization’s impact on employment law issues such as job applications, drug testing, accommodating employees’ use of cannabis for medical purposes and cannabis as a cause or treatment for workplace injuries.