Ryan T. Kocot

Ryan Thomas Kocot was admitted to the State Bar of California on December 1, 2014, and holds an active license under bar number 300396 ^[1]. He operates Kocot Law, a Sacramento-based practice focused on cannabis law at the federal and state levels ^[2]. His work includes DEA registration applications for cultivators, manufacturers, distributors, dispensaries, researchers, and import/export operators, along with state licensing before the DCC, CCC, and OCM, regulatory compliance, contracts and transactions, corporate structuring, asset forfeiture claims, and California criminal defense ^[2]. The firm states that Kocot is admitted in California, Massachusetts, and New York, which allows him to handle matters across three major cannabis jurisdictions ^[2]. Before opening his own practice, he served as head of legal and compliance for a cannabis company that grew from a startup into a multinational public company, building commercial agreements and compliance programs while the regulatory framework was still forming, and he was a Forbes contributor on cannabis law from 2023 to 2025 ^[2]. Kocot earned his law degree at McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific ^[1].