Kiliaen Van Rensselaer Strong

Overview

Kiliaen Strong’s practice focuses on the diverse but interrelated areas of cannabis, life sciences, healthcare regulatory compliance, privacy and technology, and nonprofit law. 

Kiliaen has been heavily involved in New Jersey’s cannabis industry since the first medical dispensaries opened in the state. He has hands-on experience with the industry’s unique aspects, including general operations, contract negotiations, regulatory compliance, real estate, labor, and marketing. He has represented cultivators, dispensaries, manufacturers, wholesalers, CBD start-ups and retailers, and research and policy organizations. He has guided clients through interactions with regulators and local government; day to day operations, contract negotiations with landlords, vendors and wholesalers; litigation and enforcement actions, license applications, approvals of manufacturers/processors and their products, marketing and advertising, license sales and transfer, and labor and employment issues.

Kiliaen’s regulatory and compliance practice within the life sciences and organ, tissue, and whole-body donation fields include navigating clients through state licensure and professional accreditation, litigation and discovery, HIPAA and other regulatory compliance, general corporate law, contract negotiations, managing responses to data-breaches, handling novel international law issues, procurement, and nonprofit governance. Kiliaen has worked with tissue banks, eye banks, non-transplant anatomical banks, donor registries, medical education and research entities, and organ procurement organizations.

Prior to joining the firm, Kiliaen was in-house counsel for one of New Jersey’s largest newspaper publishers, where he coordinated all state and federal public records requests and related litigation.

In law school, Kiliaen worked in the Rutgers Law School Constitutional Rights Clinic, where he was involved in public interest impact litigation and reporting about voting rights, voting machine hacking, and open government. Additionally, he worked with the Volunteer Lawyers for Justice’s Re-Entry Legal Services Clinic in Newark, aiding formerly incarcerated individuals restore their driver’s licenses. Kiliaen completed a Judicial Externship, clerking for the Honorable Fred H. Kumpf of the Somerset County Superior Court, in the Civil and Special Civil divisions.